Calmspace Healthcare Mobile App by Anqi Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Competition Category.
IronMobile· 2024
Calmspace Healthcare Mobile App
by Anqi Chen
Client: Calmspace
A' Design Award Winner in Mobile Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Calmspace Healthcare Mobile App
Calmspace introduces a mobile design concept aimed at addressing technology induced anxiety in young adults. Providing wellbeing features for free, it encourages self focus and social connection through audio, video and in person activities like yoga, sports and music. The freemium plan ensures accessibility, accompanied by a reward program that motivates users to explore and earn credits for additional sessions, promoting a healthier digital lifestyle.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Calmspace Healthcare Mobile App 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. Calmspace Healthcare Mobile App 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. Calmspace Healthcare Mobile App is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The concept of Calmspace was born out of my observation during the COVID-19 pandemic, where the prevalence of anxiety among young adults increased due to the constant digital connectivity and digital addiction enforced by remote work and learning. Recognizing this issue, I envisioned Calmspace as a mobile design solution tailored to alleviate technology-induced anxiety among young adults in educational and professional settings.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My design focus for Calmspace aims to bridge young adults’ dilemma between self-care and social connections, and break down the barriers of budget, location by making them at home. Calmspace aims to enhance happiness, and natural, proactive interaction for a healthier digital lifestyle.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Calmspace is a mobile design concept, and luckily after it received so many international achievements, I plan to work with a group of tech-driven cross-functional people to implement it.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Calmspace, a mobile design addressing technology-induced anxiety in young adults, employs a freemium model, providing free well-being features for self-focus and group activities. The innovative reward program encourages users to learn about digital anxiety, earn credits through quizzes and inviting friends for free sessions, and track well-being performance in the profile dashboard. Calmspace aims to enhance happiness, and natural, proactive interaction for a healthier digital lifestyle.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Because Calmspace is a mobile design concept intended for iOS devices, with the screens optimized for iPhone 12/13 Pro (71.5 mm width and 146.7mm height). The goal was to propose an engaging, user-friendly, visually appealing while functional user experience in Calmspace's concept, and it can evoke the design innovation, creativity and empathy among the public. There is a balance, and to achieve a better and unique outcome, I researched the color palette and explored psychological concepts such as positive reinforcement to understand about the needs and preferences of my targeted user group.
- Tags
- mobile design, user experience design, healthcare, mental health, service design, consumer-facing design, visual design
- Production Technology
- This project is available for mobiles. Design tools: Figma, Origami, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging aspect of developing the Calmspace concept was delineating the user group while recognizing technical limitations. In the research phase, I assumed that the ideal users for Calmspace would be individuals aged 18 to 30, encompassing both students and industry professionals in sectors with ready access to digital technologies.
- Research
- How can we raise awareness of young adults' anxiety through digital tech, addressing their "always connected" concerns for well-being? I defined Calmspace's user group, analyzed market trends, and conducted secondary research on anxiety, particularly during the pandemic. Surveys, interviews, and the exploration of similar apps informed primary research, revealing insights: existing mental well-being apps focus on paid subscription for meditation, people seek disconnection from the virtual world while desiring in-person connections, and there is a need for motivation in addressing digital anxiety.
- Inspiration
- I was inspired to design Calmspace concept during pandemic. Anxiety is a common issue (1.56% increase in anxiety among young Americans) related to the "always connected" existence that most young adults find themselves. During pandemic, the limitations to physical contact "forced" them to rely heavily on phones and laptops (67% people-at-home reported increasing anxiety). Thus I want to manage people's mental well-being between using digital tech and "always socially connected" existence.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2022, with iterations and finished in April 2022 in New York City, USA. Several rounds of iterations and usability testing continued to be conducted after the completion of the design prototypes.
- Operation Flow
- First-time user begins with three-step onboarding where Calmspace offers a guided introduction, and they land on the homepage that shows the individual activities. This is the entry point of the experience that brings people the choices of managing mental well-being through self-care or group activities. In the meantime, people are able to learn about digital anxiety topics through the Learning page, and track their performance in the Profile dashboard. Calmspace aims to bridge the dilemma between self-care and social connections, and break down the barriers of budget, location by making users at home.
- Image Credits
- Image#1: Creator Anqi Chen, Calmspace, 2022
Image#2: Creator Anqi Chen, Calmspace, 2022
Image#3: Creator Anqi Chen, Calmspace, 2022
Image#4: Creator Anqi Chen, Calmspace, 2022
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