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Carbon Dashboard Mobile Application by Yaping Shao

Carbon Dashboard Mobile Application by Yaping Shao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Competition Category.


IronSustainable Product· 2022

Carbon Dashboard Mobile Application

by Yaping Shao

Client: Zhejiang University

A' Design Award Winner in Sustainable Product Category

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The Design

About Carbon Dashboard Mobile Application

Carbon Dashboard is a mobile application that visualizes personal carbon emissions. Algorithms calculate daily emissions from individual consumption records and movement routes. The application sorts emissions by source, so users can see which daily habits produce the most carbon and control them. A social ranking compares emissions among nearby users and encourages further reduction. Carbon Dashboard is designed for iOS devices and adapts to different screen sizes. The aim is to lower public carbon emissions and protect the environment.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Carbon Dashboard Mobile Application is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Carbon Dashboard Mobile Application is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Carbon Dashboard Mobile Application is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Carbon dashboard is an application for visualizing personal carbon emissions data. This app uses algorithms to calculate daily carbon emissions based on individual consumption and action routes. By visualizing carbon emissions to change users' high carbon consumption behavior, the aim is to reduce carbon emissions of the general public and protect the environment.
Dimensions & Packaging
The app is designed for iOS platforms, fitting various screen sizes. Referring to the submitted entry the design is made for iPhone 11 Pro Max. Screen Size 1242px x 2688px and Resolution 458 PPI.
Tags
Visualization, Environmental Protection, Carbon Emissions
Production Technology
This app uses algorithms to calculate daily carbon emissions based on individual consumption and action routes.
Design Challenge
Our challenge lies mainly in the algorithm for the transformation between carbon emissions and consumption behavior data. We hope that this transformation of data will give users a clearer understanding of the environmental impact of their individual behavior.
Research
Our research in this project focused on changing people's behavior through visualization, and we did a lot of research and user interviews to develop a prototype interface for Carbon dashboard.
Inspiration
I want to construct a translational relationship between consumption behaviour and carbon emissions, and to visualize this as a reminder to reduce high carbon emission behaviour.
Project Duration
The project started in September 2020 and finished in May 2021 in China.
Operation Flow
By recording personal consumption behavior, Carbon dashboard transforms consumption data into a visualization of carbon emissions, categorizing the sources of carbon emissions and enabling users to gain a more precise understanding of the high carbon emissions in their lives and to control them. By socially ranking the carbon emissions around them, users are stimulated to reduce their carbon emissions as much as possible.
Team Members
Designer: Yaping Shao
Designer: Yajing Hu
Designer: Chao Zhang
Designer: Jiayi Wu
Designer: Jianqiao Chen
Designer: Zili Zhou
Designer: Jianhui Liu
Image Credits
Yaping Shao, 2021

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