The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face by Pan Yong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Competition Category.
IronInterface· 2019
The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face
by Pan Yong
Client: Artalex
A' Design Award Winner in Interface Category
Verified Award Winner
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About The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face
The Plant - Advent & Nature gives you a fresh look and feel. It easily matches your outfit, both for business and casual life. Both two designs (Advent and Nature) have event notification which prevents you from missing important event on calendar. The Advent even shows different encouraging slogan to give you different mood everyday. The Nature is suitable for casual occasion by providing essential information and different colours so that it makes your watch matches different outfit better.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face 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. The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face 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. The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face 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?
I wanted to have an informative modular watch face with minimalism style so that I can check daily information in a quick way.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main goal in designing this watch face is that I try to put as many essential information as possible but at the same time it doesn’t feel crowded.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I guess it could be the start of a series of modularised minimalism stylish watch faces.
Grand Interview
Your innovative integration of daily encouraging slogans in The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face presents a unique approach to emotional design - could you elaborate on how you developed these motivational elements and measured their impact on user experience?
The integration of daily encouraging slogans was inspired by the idea of bringing positivity to routine moments. I carefully crafted these messages to be simple yet impactful, aiming to provide users with a gentle boost throughout their day. User feedback was crucial in measuring the impact; beta testers noted an increase in motivation and connection with the watch face, which encouraged me to further refine the language and display frequency. This approach to emotional design helps create a meaningful, personal experience in everyday interactions.
The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face masterfully balances information density with aesthetic clarity - what inspired your decision to merge the battery percentage indicator into the plant drawing background, and how did this solution enhance the overall user interface?
I aimed to create a seamless and natural interface, where functional elements felt like part of the aesthetic. By merging the battery indicator with the plant background, the design conveys battery status without disrupting the visual flow. The plant illustration changes subtly as battery life decreases, adding a dynamic, organic touch that harmonizes with the face’s themes. This solution minimized on-screen clutter while making the battery status more intuitive and visually engaging.
As the creator of The Plant - Advent And Nature Smartwatch Watch Face, how did your background in interactive art influence your approach to designing two distinct themes - Advent for business and Nature for casual use - while maintaining a cohesive visual identity?
My background in interactive art has always emphasized storytelling and engagement. For The Plant, I envisioned a design that could adapt to different contexts while maintaining a unified experience. The Advent theme was crafted with clean, structured elements for a professional look, while the Nature theme embraced organic shapes and softer tones. Despite these contrasts, the recurring plant motif and balanced typography ensure that both themes are connected aesthetically, offering users a consistent yet versatile interface.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This watch face project, The Plant, consists of two sets of design, Advent and Nature. The Plant Advent is catered for business purpose while the Plant Nature is for casual. Both, however, have event (reminder) indicator. So user will not miss important event in calendar. The Advent has encouraging slogan everyday. The Nature provides essential information, is suitable for casual occasion. Both have two themes (black and grey) and can change colour according to user's preference.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 400px, Height 400px. Support Samsung Gear watches (Gear S2, S3, Sports, Galaxy Watch) and all Android smart watches. Use WatchMaker app to load up the watch face.
- Tags
- business, informative, casual, black, grey
- Production Technology
- Designed in Photoshop. Developed in WatchMaker app. Lua is the coding language. This watch face is for WatchMaker only. There is no Samsung Tizen native version yet. So for Samsung user, need to use WatchMaker app to sync it into watch, just like other Android watch.
- Design Challenge
- There were two challenges. One was how to make The Advent (business) give user different mood everyday so that when users look at the watch, they feel encouraged. The solution is I use seven encouraging slogans for seven different days. For example, "Believe yourself" for Monday. "Relax" for Sunday. I tried it for a few weeks. The feeling is awesome.
The other was when I design the dashboard-like layout for The Advent. It's hard to put so many information into a small dial. For example, there is not space for battery percentage. In the end I came up an idea, merge it into my drawing as background. It's not primary element in the dial. But user still can see it. Problem solved. - Research
- This project was started because of one of my plant drawings. I used this drawing as my phone case design. One day when I saw the actual phone case, I decided to use it in my watch face design. And then I tried to use one drawing to form two different directions, business (informative) and casual (minimalism). After first draft came out, I used it on my watch for a few weeks. To check whether the watch face is easy-to-read, whether the battery consumption is good or not. And most importantly, whether it looks stylish, young and matches modern fashion or not.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration is to have my own drawing, the plant, as background and develop out different feelings for different target users (business and causal). The Plant Advent is in a dashboard-like layout. Directly shows the information user needs for day to day work. With event indicator (if user set reminder in calendar), user can check events directly from watch and will not miss important meeting. The Plant Nature has minimalism style while still have event indication.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2018 and finished in June 2018 in Singapore.
- Operation Flow
- Download the watch face from WatchMaker here: http://www.getwatchmaker.com/watch/sBJWzFJZb7
Load it up in WatchMaker app and sync into watch. When the watch face starts, it will show a white pallet icon. Click it to set colour.
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