A Helping Hand to Exit Homelessness

The Homelight App

The Reason for Homelight

Homeless families in Ireland are having difficulties navigating and communicating with the current accommodation support system. People find it hard to reach or use, and are left in the dark about their application progress. Homelight aims to provide these families with access to the services they need to exit homelessness on their smartphone.

Why Homelight?

Homelight has the Opportunity to Help

9,891

homeless people*

1,778

homeless families*

3,867

homeless children*

*Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government (2018). Homeless Report July 2018.

What is Homelight?

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Benefits of Homelight

Homelight Aims to Improve the Existing Consolidating Services

Simplifies Process

By consolidating the many accommodation services into one app, Homelight makes it easier for users to apply for accommodation and progress further to permanent housing.

Provides Guidance

Homelight guides users through each step of the application for accommodation. It helps users understand and request housing services best suited to their immediate needs.

Empowers Users

By giving more agency to the user, Homelight removes barriers and limits placed on people during the accommodation application process.

Design for Good

Our Roadmap to Ending Homelessness

Our Vision

We endeavour to engage in resolving the growing problem of homelessness in Ireland with Homelight. Its aim is to make registration as homeless and the process of requesting accommodation services simpler for all involved, allowing users to apply for accommodation through the app.

Human-centred, empathic design can be an agent of change and help shed a light on the inequalities in our world. Homelight hopes to be a catalyst to transform systems and services for good.

Do You Want To Support Us?

We are Looking to Realise the Homelight App. Can You help? We are looking for:

Developers to assist in bringing our prototype into a working application
People who can work to help implement our app into the current Government system
Feedback from those who have dealt with homelessness or are still dealing with homelessness
Anyone who is interested in bringing the app to fruition.

Get Involved

About Us

Passionate. Innovative. Experts.

We are Graphic Mint, a User Experience Design Agency based in Dublin. In a world dominated by evolving technology it is important not to forget the human factor. At Graphic Mint we focus on making people’s lives better, no matter who you are. Our Graphic Mint Design ethos is all about respect, responsibility and sustainability. We hope to make the world a better place, one Design at a time.

Contributors: Séamus Byrne, Julian Becerra, Marc Brophy, Tatsianna Artsemiuk, Cathal O’Brien, Brendan Feeney, Niamh McGuinness, Joan Lau, Aoife Burke, Dylan Lewis, Daniel Coxon, Eoin Cooke, Tobias Michaely, Sarah Doyle and Linas Staniukynas.