A community newspaper created by and for Chinese seniors to solve their issues of loneliness and isolation in the United States.This project lasts for one year, includes research part and design part. The final delivery contains two different version of a community newspaper, one is printed version and another one is a digital version, for the reason that seniors in the different background have two different user behaviors on newspaper reading. The design solution comes from careful observation of user daily life and behavior, as well as the mental models of different groups of seniors.

Siqi is a social innovator who has design thinking skills and makes design for most 99% people in the society. Chinatown Connect is the project she combines the knowledge of ethnography research and UX design which solve the issue of Chinese seniors isolation in New York. With the collaboration with the different organizations in New York, this project can be done successfully.