Wellpaper Ngwa Mobaịl by Oneplus Usa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Teknụzụ Mkpanaka, Ngwa na Sọftụwia Competition Category.

BronzMkpanaka· 2022

Wellpaper Ngwa Mobaịl

by Oneplus Usa

Client: Oneplus USA

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Mkpanaka Category

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The Design

About Wellpaper Ngwa Mobaịl

WellPaper bụ ngwa mobaịl na-egosi oge ihuenyo na etu esi eji fọn kwụọ ọrụ site na ihe ise dị iche iche na-agagharị agagharị maka ndozi ihuenyo. E kekọtara ngwa ndị a wụnyere n'ime otu isii, ma oge ihuenyo ha na-egosipụta n'ihu mbido ozugbo. Ihe ise ahụ bụ Composition, Glow, Radial, Cosmos na Botanical Garden. A na-ewepụta ndozi ihuenyo ọ bụla dịka onyonyo na-adịghị agagharị agagharị, ma emelite ya mgbe emeghere fọn ahụ, nke na-eme ka etinye batrị dị ala. Ihuenyo na-esonyere ya na-enye ndị ọrụ ohere ịtọ ihe mgbaru ọsọ maka oge ihuenyo kwa ụbọchị yana inyocha nkọwa maka otu ọ bụla. Ebumnuche ya bụ ime ka omume ndị mmadụ ji fọn eme ihe kwa ụbọchị pụta ìhè nghọta.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

Wellpaper Ngwa Mobaịl meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Wellpaper Ngwa Mobaịl ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. Wellpaper Ngwa Mobaịl na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: WellPaper is a mobile app that display's users' screen time and smartphone usage through five creative and dynamic wallpapers. The existing screen time monitoring tools are bland and uninspiring to the user, or deeply hidden in the settings, giving users little reason to return to use the information. WellPaper organizes all installed apps into six categories and tracks their screen times, allowing users to visualize and better understand their day-to-day smartphone habits in an aesthetic way right on the home screen.

Users can choose from 5 distinctive wallpaper designs:
Composition - Inspired by Piet Mondrian's "Composition No. II," this data-heavy design consists of a range of tiles that constantly scale based on app usage.
Glow - A cyberpunk design with six neon rings that get thicker when you are approaching the daily screen time target.
Radial - A soft and smooth color gradient on a white canvas, for those who appreciate a minimal design style.
Cosmos - A dark-themed solar system design, this wallpaper features 6 planets that constantly scale based on the screen time of the 6 categories.
Botanical garden - Inspired by Alex Katz's painting "Tulips 4," comes with a relaxing flower design that lets users' digital wellbeing blossom.

Liven up your home screen whilst improving your digital wellbeing with WellPaper.
Dimensions & Packaging: High battery consumption is always the major concern people have on live wallpapers. To address this concern, WellPaper uses the screen time of six app categories to calculate and render a static wallpaper, then update it upon unlocks rather than always running in the background. There is also a frequency limit of five minutes to avoid frequent unlocks. In this way, WellPaper is able to provide the visual perk of a dynamic wallpaper, but greatly reduces the battery consumption to a level that is close to the static wallpaper.
Tags: Digital Wellbeing, Wallpaper, Android, Customization, Mobile Application
Production Technology: After the user research and competitive analysis, the design team actively sought inspiration from different channels to satisfy the different tastes of Android users. From analyzing popular wallpaper apps on the Play Store, to looking into the trending movies and games, then to visiting museums in the New York City including MoMA and the MET, we had concluded eight distinctive directions. We sent the design concepts to OnePlus tester community and internal employees to get feedback, and eventually picked three concepts, Composition, Glow, and Radial to develop in the first season, Cosmos and Botanical Garden for the second season.

At the same time, we were designing the mobile app. Serving as a supportive role, the app allows users to explore different wallpapers, understand their interactions, view a comprehensive list of apps' screen time, or even set their daily screen time targets. To have advantages in feature comprehensiveness, wallpaper visual design, and user customization compared to competitors, we organized several usability testing sessions to validate the design and uploaded the app to the Play Store for additional user feedback and bug reports. At a late stage, we added highly requested features including reassigning an app's category and assigning side-loaded apps to categories and continued to iterate the visual design to match the latest Material Design Guidelines.
Design Challenge: The development team used Android Canvas to develop the wallpapers but it has limits in creating the shadow and blur effects. While the developers used the radial color with a large radius to simulate the blur effect, designers exported multiple sets of assets to represent different stages of the dynamic wallpaper. The team was able to realize 85% of the original wallpaper design through this collaboration.
Research: During the design phase, we launched a survey to prioritize the 5 design styles we had. The survey was designed using the MaxDiff method on Google form, and Excel was used for analyzing. It was launched in the internal team and the OnePlus Beta Testing users and received 138 valid responses. It turned out that users preferred the more aesthetic styles over the functional ones. Based on the result, we clarified the product strategy to ensure the usability of wallpapers before adding extra values and decided to prioritize the two styles called Radial and Composition which were best received.
Inspiration: During the pandemic, screen times have increased, especially on mobile devices. Alongside that, there has been an increase in usage of tools for digital wellbeing such as Insight AOD or Zen Mode previously built by OnePlus. Both Android and iOS operating systems have their own digital wellbeing sections, but from user research, we discovered that users rarely use these stock tools since they are hidden in the settings - a place rarely visited - and the charts and lists are simply unattractive.

We focus on addressing two increasing user needs in this project: 1. To support smartphone users' increasing need for device personalization. Since the wallpapers are generated from the users' own data, it has a strong personal connection and is different (almost) every time they unlock their devices. 2. To help smartphone users better understand and manage their daily screen time in an effortless way. The wallpapers contain a good amount of information and don't require users to go to the "Digital Wellbeing" section deeply buried in system settings.

We also looked into the competitors in the market. This included the stock digital wellbeing apps in iOS and Android, and third-party tools like "Activity Bubbles" and "Screen Stopwatch" by Google Creative Lab. We learned that our solution needs to be accurate, provide enough detail but also easy to understand, and support the increasing need for device personalization. Based on our previous experience building Insight AOD and Zen Mode, we thought a wallpaper could be a desirable medium to check all the boxes without being disruptive.
Project Duration: The project started in May 2021 and finished in September 2021 in New York City, USA. Our global team is based across Shenzhen, Taipei, Hydrabad, London, and New York. During this time we did not meet in person at all and conducted everything virtually.
Operation Flow: Users start with an onboarding process that introduces the core features, terms and conditions, and asks for access to app usage data. Upon granting access, users proceed to the home screen to see all the five wallpaper designs. Users can select a wallpaper to view an introduction of its design and interaction, then set it as the system wallpaper. Back to the home screen, users can swipe left to see the Screen Time tab, which contains the daily screen time target and all six app categories. The default daily screen time target is set to 3.5 hours based on statistics and the users can change it anytime. The list of app categories below indicates the relationship between six app categories and six colors in the wallpaper, this relationship changes a little bit depending on users' current wallpaper selection. Tapping into one category, users are able to see app the apps belonging and their detailed screen time. Users can also navigate to the settings page from the home page to change the category information of an app, or disable the screen time display when they tap on the wallpaper.
Patents: ONEPLUS USA Corp.
Team Members: Mingxiao Hu
Yichen Wang
Soojin Park
Jie Qian
MinYen Hsieh
Sam Twist
Andi Lawley
Avinash Chitturi
Sagare Chetan Basawaraj
Image Credits: ONEPLUS USA Corp.