Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform by Shinga Yoshimine and Yitian Zeng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Competition Category.
IronInterface· 2025
Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform
by Shinga Yoshimine and Yitian Zeng
Client: Digiverse
A' Design Award Winner in Interface Category
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About Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform
Digiverse enables users to securely add and share digital assets with loved ones, helping their legacy endure. In the digital era, the fate of these assets after one's passing can be uncertain. Digiverse addresses this by offering an intuitive platform that tracks shared assets and beneficiaries, providing clear oversight and control over the digital inheritance process. It preserves memories and ensures they are passed on to future generations, offering peace of mind that your digital footprint is protected and valued by those who matter.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform 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. Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform 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. Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Where to Get It
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Discuss Your ProjectInterviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main idea behind Digiverse is to make digital asset inheritance simple, secure, and accessible. In today’s digital age, people hold significant value in online accounts, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and digital documents, but there’s often no clear way to pass them on since they exist only in digital form. Digiverse was inspired by the need to protect these assets and ensure they can be safely transferred to loved ones, preserving meaningful digital legacies for future generations.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
We focused on making digital asset inheritance as smooth, secure, and user-friendly as possible. Since the platform handles highly sensitive information, such as bank accounts, personal documents, and cryptocurrency wallets, Our priority was to build trust through robust security measures and clear, intuitive design.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Our future plan is to bring Digiverse to life, as it is currently a conceptual design. We aim to develop it into a fully functional platform that can help individuals securely manage and transfer their digital assets.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to digital legacy management through Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform addresses a critical modern challenge - could you share the pivotal moment that inspired you to tackle the uncertainty surrounding digital assets after death?
The pivotal moment came from a simple question: what happens to our digital lives when we are no longer here?Today, many of our memories, identities, financial assets, and personal records exist digitally, yet most people do not have a clear plan for how those assets should be accessed or protected. That uncertainty inspired us to create Digiverse.With Digiverse, we wanted to help people organize their digital assets and ensure their memories, values, and important information can be safely passed on to their loved ones with clarity, security, and care.
The user interface of Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform features a distinctive blueish color scheme associated with trust - how did your research into user psychology and emotional responses influence your design decisions for this platform?
Our design decisions were guided by the emotional sensitivity of the platform. Digiverse deals with personal memories, important information, and digital assets, so we wanted the interface to feel secure, calm, and approachable.We chose a blueish color scheme because blue is commonly associated with trust, clarity, and stability. It also connects naturally with technology, which helped us create a visual identity that feels both reliable and modern. Our goal was to make users feel comfortable managing something deeply personal while still trusting the platform’s security and structure.
Given the sensitive nature of digital inheritance, how does Digiverse Digital Inheritance Platform balance user-friendly features with robust security measures to ensure both accessibility and protection of valuable digital assets?
Digiverse balances accessibility and protection by making the platform simple, clear, and easy to understand across generations, while keeping security at the center of the experience.We used user-friendly language, intuitive layouts, and guided steps so users can manage sensitive digital assets with confidence. At the same time, we considered stronger protection through identity verification, two-step authentication, security questions, and potential integration with trusted financial institutions or third-party verification systems.Our goal was to make digital inheritance approachable, while ensuring valuable information is only accessed by the right people.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Digiverse empowers users to securely add and share digital assets with loved ones, ensuring their enduring legacy. In today's digital age, uncertainty surrounds the fate of these assets after passing. Digiverse addresses this by offering a user-friendly platform that tracks shared assets and beneficiaries, providing transparency and control over their digital inheritance journey. Digiverse preserves valuable memories and ensures they are passed on to future generations.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Digiverse is a desktop app with dimensions of 1440mm x 1024mm. The platform features a blueish color scheme, chosen for its association with trust and cleanliness. We carefully considered how users can easily and securely transfer their digital assets to beneficiaries, ensuring a seamless experience. The user interface is designed to be well-organized and user-friendly, allowing first-time users to navigate the platform effortlessly and securely manage all their accounts in one place.
- Tags
- Web App, Web Design, Digital Design, UX Design, Service Design, Life Style, Digital Legacy, Digital Inheritance
- Production Technology
- The design process for Digiverse involved iterative stages from initial concept sketching to prototyping. We employed user-centered design methodologies, including user research, personas, user journey mapping, and usability testing. The tools we used are Sketching, Figma, and Adobe Illustrators.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part was ensuring secure asset transfer and management. Creative challenges included integrating user-friendly features while maintaining security. Internal factors like historical and social perspectives, and external factors like laws, production possibilities, and technology, influenced our design. Overcoming obstacles like data privacy concerns and technical complexities, we developed Digiverse that ensures the preservation and transfer of cherished memories to loved ones.
- Research
- The research involved a survey on security concerns related to digital assets, aiming to identify user worries and improve security measures. Survey tools collected qualitative and quantitative data from users. Results highlighted various security issues, prompting improvements in Digiverse's security features. Insights gained from the research enhance Digiverse's security and user trust, benefiting businesses and contributing to societal trust in digital asset management solutions.
- Inspiration
- Our inspiration for Digiverse stemmed from a deep concern for the uncertainty surrounding digital assets' fate posthumously. Motivated by the desire to empower users and preserve their legacies, we embarked on creating a user-friendly platform. We aim to provide peace of mind, safeguarding memories and vital assets for future generations, making Digiverse a trusted solution for digital inheritance.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2024 and finished in May 2024 in California, USA.
- Operation Flow
- After logging in and providing personal information and security questions, users can easily start adding their digital assets and designating beneficiaries. They have control over access periods and sharing permissions. Digital accounts, NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and documents can be uploaded securely. Digiverse collaborates with third parties to safeguard bank information with advanced security measures, ensuring a smooth and protected user experience throughout the platform.
- Patents
- Copyright (c) MetaMask, 2018
MetaMask, 2018
MIT License
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE. - Team Members
- Yitian Zeng
Shinga Yoshimine - Image Credits
- Image: Shinga Yoshimine, 2024.
Video Credits: Yitian Zeng, 2024.
Illustrator: Yitian Zeng, 2024
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