Blazing Love Community Platform by Juthamas Vadhanapanich Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design

Juthamas Vadhanapanich honored for mobile technologies, applications and software design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Blazing Love Community Platform by Juthamas Vadhanapanich, designed for Independent Muffin Limited Partnership, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

Regarding Blazing Love Community Platform

Blazing Love is a community platform that nurture loves equality for LGBTQIA plus and creates a sustainable community by embracing the idea of Sexual Fluidity and attempting to solve the problems of fraud, and mistreatment of people using smart matching functions, smart search, events, and news that allows users to create their lifestyle and interest-based profiles and browse for their matches with the best experience throughout their journeys both online and offline events.

About Juthamas Vadhanapanich

As Chief Experience Officer and former Head of UX/UI and CX Design, I offer 20+ years of expertise in Interaction & Visual Design, leading a team of designers, researchers, and writers. Evolving as a leader, I find fulfillment in seeing my team thrive. Besides BANPU, I run Independent Muffin LP and co-founded A Cuppa Academy and Digital Black Knight. I'm active as a speaker, mentor, and competition judge, enriching the start-up scene.

Award Record

This recognition makes Juthamas Vadhanapanich a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2022 - 2023 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Award

The A' Mobile Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good design in mobile industry by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to mobile designers, application developers, software engineers and user interface designers from all countries. Entries typically include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. Awarded mobile designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/mobile

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/150433
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/150433
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!150433
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/259812
Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.blazinglove.com

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Blazing Love Community Platform
Function: Community Platform
Category: Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software and Electronics & Appliances
Colors: Royal Blue, Lavender, Steel Blue, Firebrick and Gold
Images: 5
Client: Independent Muffin Limited Partnership

The Recognition

Laureate: Juthamas Vadhanapanich
Country: Thailand
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2022 - 2023
Design ID: #150433

Design Details

Unique Properties: BlazingLove.com is a community platform that nurtures love equality for lgbtqia plus and creates a sustainable community by embracing the idea of Sexual Fluidity and attempting to solve the problems of fraud, and mistreatment of people using smart matching functions, smart search, events, and news that allows users to create their lifestyle and interest-based profiles and browse for their matches with the best experience throughout their journeys both online and offline events.
Inspiration: Many frauds and mistreatments of lgbtqia plus occur every day around the world and people have more and more fluidity in sexual orientations. Our research has found that people are looking for someone with similar lifestyles and interests they can trust to talk to, exchange ideas with, or be friends with rather than looking for sexual partners or marriage. BlazingLove aims to be the platform that lgbtqia plus can trust to find their matches and become a sustainable community of equal love.
Research: Sexual fluidity has been used in the context that gender identity or sexuality of people could be changed fluidly according to their context of living. There are social issues and arguments regarding sexual fluidity, gender identity, and equality. One of them is that they do not want to express their gender identity publicly, while it is an important personal factor to segment customers for marketing purposes. Doing business with this group of people needs to manage this sensitive issue properly.
Challenge: Since the research is both qualitative and quantitative, the challenges were how we triangulate the data with existing data we gathered from the beta version and turn them into valuable features for our target users. The other challenge we have found that delays our development is the matching algorithm that we would like to have a highly accurate suggestion, we are continuously improving its accuracy as well as its ability to verify profiles and identify frauds and ill-behaviors.
Realization and Technology: BlazingLove.com is designed and developed using Web3 technology and spider map analysis to provide secure and accurate matches to users. We have initially gathered and built accurate prescriptive algorithms so the system is able to suggest interest-based matches and events to the users. Our platform also includes pre-screening profiles for fraud prevention and to ensure the safety of our users through meet-and-greet events/services that we are hosting. The interaction and interface of the platform are designed to ensure that the users are will gain the best user experience since they first join the platform i.e.
Operation and Interaction: New users can browse articles, news, and events on our platform without registration to learn more about LGBTQIA plus, gender equality, and sexual fluidity. If they would like to find their match, they have to create their profiles. The profile will be checked and approved at different levels to ensure the credibility and trustworthiness of every user. Once the profile is approved, they can start searching for their matches, joining events, or posting articles in the communities. The more activities they join, the higher levels they will be.
Project Duration and Location: The beta version is online since 2014 online at www.blazinglove.com, the research was conducted in Bangkok, Thailand during 2021-2022. Being nominated by UXDA, Germany (See: https://www.ux-design-awards.com/winners/blazinglove) in April 2021. Currently under development for front and backend which is planned to go live by end of 2023.
Specifications: Web-based responsive design platform with Web3 and built-in algorithm for lifestyles and interests match for users with spider map analysis.
Keywords: Trusted and sustainable community of equally love