Press Release
Maybe Multifunctional App by Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde honored for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category for Maybe Multifunctional App by Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde, designed for Peguel. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Maybe Multifunctional App
Maybe app is simple. It is attractive, clean, and intuitive, generated to talk about the taboo topic of menstruation that unfortunately causes a lot of damage in the correct development of girls, physicaly and emotional. The solution is generated through collaboration with specialists and parents reaching out the conclusion that the bad experience may be prevented by support and approaching this topic at the right time with the right preparation of parents that through articles understad better how to guide, educate better in order to empower girls and help them know themselves better.
About Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde
Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde, also known as Peguel, is a Mexican designer, author, creative director, and endurance athlete whose work spans product design, furniture, publishing, restoration, and cultural projects. His practice moves between the pragmatic and the poetic, exploring the relationship between objects, materials, human behavior, ritual, and everyday experience. His work ranges from everyday products to limited-edition pieces and creative direction projects, often using narrative as a way to create meaning around objects and experiences.
Award Record
With this recognition, Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Award
The A' Interface Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good user interface designs by the best UI/UX designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interface designers, interaction designers, user experience designers and digital product designers from all countries. Entries typically include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. Awarded interface designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interface
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/107037
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/107037
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!107037
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/278408
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.quinzedesign.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Maybe Multifunctional App
- Function
- Multifunctional App
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Ghost White, Light Slate Gray, Silver, Dark Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Peguel
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde
- Country
- Mexico
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #107037
Credits
- Image Credits
- Main Image: Designer Pedro Miguel Salgado, 2020 Optional Visual 1: Designer Pedro Miguel Salgado, 2020 Optional Visual 2: Designer Pedro Miguel Salgado, 2020 Optional Visual 3: Designer Pedro Miguel Salgado, 2020
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Maybe is the proposal generated to solve this taboo problem. Consists of two main parts inside the appplication: teaching and get analisys of data, both creating a system for preventing bad experiences since you can know an approximate date for your daughter's first period, as well as learn about topics related to the first period or sexuality and be able to address them in the right way at the right time.
- Inspiration
- first time, unfortunately most of them had a negative experience that will mark their physical and emotional development, but worse still, some of them died. Girls from 9-13 years old, who committed suicide caused by bullying they suffered due to the ignorance of their peers, parents and teachers about menstruation and the female body. This could be prevented with a opportune education but sadly in some places is considered taboo
- Research
- The first step about how to improve the experience of the first menstruation was to investigate the causes of a bad experience, followed by a survey of 27 mothers and 18 women between 18-46 years of what was their experience and how could it be improved. Once with this information, a psychologist and a doctor were spoken to find out how this experience affects various aspects of development. Together with these people, they iterated until they reached an interface that revealed the weaknesses of education and helped prevent a bad first experience.
- Challenge
- The first challenge was to talk to parents and teachers about this taboo topic and get the most people involved in order to have a better result, but additionaly, the main challenge was the ability to create an app that could process and give important information in the correct time with an intuitive interface and that felt effortless for the user.
- Realization and Technology
- Several design concepts were explored through different of user interface sketches and mockups created with the adobe suite: Adobe XD, Adobe Illustartor; which were then tested with help of parents, psychologists, doctors and specialist.
- Operation and Interaction
- The app is extremely simple. It is attractive, clean, and intuitive, when filled with the historic data of the girl such as habits, food, sport activity, age, mother’s first period, shows the levels of the female hormones that start to increase their levels between 7-4 weeks before menarche, with this information the user may see the probability of their daughter to have her first menstruation this month, in addition to that, it has previously filtered articles written by psiclogyst, doctors, and specialist for parent or teacher to understad better the anatomy so that you can guide your daughter or minor under your responsibility, educate the girl better, with appropriate information in the...
- Project Duration and Location
- Maybe started in September 2019, is still going in Puebla, Mexico.
- Specifications
- Maybe mobile application is designed for the IOS and Android, orientated in portrait mode. Responsive mobile UI/UX design
- Keywords
- social, eduacation, female body, prevention, app, technology, health, UI, UX, device, interface
