SOUL GARDEN

APP design

APP design

Love always surrounds

Love always surrounds

SOUL GARDEN

Design For the Future


Business analysis

Background

Machine Learning based service design

  • Image/Audio recognition can be used to deliver our services. The system can identify commonalities and match them to faces and audio using a database of people's information.


  • A machine learning algorithm extracts structured Information from unstructured data. Our platform will generate the AI and deliver our services directly via the mobile platform.


Background

My Role

UX Researcher

UIUX Designer

Tools

Figma

Business model canvas

Quantitative analysis

Project Timeframe

5 Month

Objective: How might we connect to the future?

China will run out of cemetery space within the next 10 years
We aim to develop powerful new ways for people to interact with their deceased relatives and gradually change their perception of death. (Data retrieved Feb, 2021)




Design Process

Step 1: Understand

Learn about the pain points and our audience, who is out of budget for the burial of their family

Step 2 Research

Gather data and form questions based on reliable sources

Step3 : Analyze

Define the issues as the service we will provide


Conduct UX testing based on early-stage wireframes


Business analyze

Step 4: Design

Build solutions based on data and previous conclusions


Conduct a focus group study to log user feedback based on prototypes

Step 5 : Evaluate

Re-evaluate the project and solution based on user feedback


Re-visite the solution proposed

Solutions

Chat service

Users can communicate with the deceased relatives by Text, or audio or use virtual reality tools.

Purchase products

Users can purchase gift items and change the user settings/status on platform

Family share

Users are able to invite families to join and share the purchased services

Business Model

UX Design
Iteration 1

In the first iteration, our team focused on designing the foundation for the pillar feature - chat services.
We built the wires based on competitive analysis with existing products in the market.

Outstanding Challenges:
We are not sure if this interaction design is a comfortable design for our users.




UX Design
Iteration 2

In the second iteration, our team focused on improving the basic functions - sign up, chat service, pay system, and file upload. We also did user research based on the wires we created, and we received feedback about not using the file management system because it is hard to use.


Outstanding Challenges:
Are we going to keep the same feature or we improve it? (memory files)



UX Design
Iteration 3

In the third iteration, our team focused on finalizing the 3 key functions - not only completed the visual design but also built pages with friendly remainders for senior users.

Outstanding Challenges:
We are not sure if VR would be a radical design solution, considering there will be a variety of seniors using this platform.




UX Design
Iteration 4

In the final iteration, we improved our main page prototype to increase text size and logo visibility for senior users. Based on the feedback we received from user research, the use of icons could be confusing, yet users prefer bigger names on the screen.



Project Budget Forecast - 3 years

Summary

Keep :
- Our design solutions, such as chat services, making phone calls, visiting, and inviting family members to communicate with the AI ​​replica received positive feedback.
- Usability testing has shown a positive effect, with the app becoming increasingly open to natural burial practices and improvements being made continuously to meet user feedback on enhanced functionality.

Change:

-VR could be a powerful tool, but we are also concerned if this could be a too radical design solution for seniors. Also considering this is a project we aim to collaborate with authorities, we might need to redesign the way we store data, and business models in the future.


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