The Red Cross symbol on a red background

IT system / Aarhus University / 2025

Røde Kors

Furnish your room, give it back, get half your money back.

An Erasmus course project with the Danish Red Cross, which funds its humanitarian work by reselling donated items. We connected two problems: students renting unfurnished rooms, and warehouses full of unsold furniture.

Role
UX/UI · Prototyping · Testing
Team
Team project
Year
2025
Context
Aarhus University, Denmark
Tested in-store with the Danish Red Cross

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back when you return everything at the end of your stay

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Red Cross stores across Denmark

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average age of the volunteers who use the store app

Two problems that fit together

Students rent unfurnished rooms, Red Cross warehouses are full of unsold donations
I lived it myself: the day after landing in Denmark I was at IKEA buying furniture I’d use for six months.

The student app, tested in a real store

  1. App asking how long you want to rent

    1Say how long you’ll stay

  2. Empty cart screen

    2Open your cart

  3. Scanning a barcode on a store item

    3Scan what you need

You pay as if you were buying. When you leave, you return everything and get 50% back: less spending, less waste, nothing to throw away.

Designed for volunteers aged 76 on average

A second app, on iPad, lets volunteers register rentals and returns at the till. Large elements, few choices, tested right where it would be used.

Røde Kors second-hand store in Denmark
One of the ~200 Røde Kors stores where we tested
A volunteer using the iPad app at the store till
A volunteer registering a rental at the till
Next steps

Both apps were tested with real users through high-fidelity prototypes connected to real APIs and a product database. The next challenge is awareness: students need to know about the service before they land in Denmark.

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