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Piyaphon Inthavong Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Kinmuni Nutrition Management Interface in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
Piyaphon Inthavong honored for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Kinmuni Nutrition Management Interface by Piyaphon Inthavong has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
More About Kinmuni Nutrition Management Interface
Limited nutritional awareness and a lack of meal flexibility often make dining out for specific diet goals a challenge. Kinmuni solves this by offering a smart, user friendly platform that allows meal customization, nutrition tracking, and direct restaurant integration. Designed with real user insights, it simplifies decision making, reduces wait times, and promotes healthier eating habits. Through a clean and accessible interface, Kinmuni transforms how people interact with food and dining services.
About Piyaphon Inthavong
Piyaphon Inthavong is a product designer with a decade of multidisciplinary design experience across healthcare, technology, and SaaS industries, including four years focused on digital product design.He partners with enterprises to streamline product development by aligning design and engineering teams through unified systems and reusable components. With a background in UI/UX, no-code development, and design operations, Piyaphon helps organizations reduce inefficiencies, improve accessibility, and ensure consistency across platforms. His work supports long-term digital sustainability and contributes to the development of inclusive, outcome-driven user experiences.
Award Record
This recognition makes Piyaphon Inthavong 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/167251
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167251
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167251
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/362891
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://shorturl.at/Z02cI
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Kinmuni Nutrition Management Interface
- Function
- Nutrition Management Interface
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Light Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Linen, Dim Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Piyaphon Inthavong
- Country
- Lao
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167251
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Alesia Kozik, A Person Holding a Vegetarian Dish, 2023.; Photographer Brooke Lark, A Platter of Crackers, Strawberries, and Fruit, 2023.; Photographer Brooke Lark, Fruits in Plate, 2023.; Photographer Brooke Lark, Salad with Guacamole, 2023.; Photographer VK Bro, Oyster Dish, 2023.; Photographer Qwabi Black, White Plate Topped With A Sandwich And French Fries, 2023.; Photographer Mae Mu, Fry Rice With Prawn Dish, 2023.; Photographer Ryan Concepcion, Brown Ceramic Bowl on Brown Wooden Table, 2023.; Photographer Lum3n, Tomato Pizza, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Kinmuni is a nutrition calculator and meal customization interface designed for a local restaurant in Vientiane, Laos. It enables users to manage dietary preferences, customize meals, and track nutritional intake. The interface directly connects with the restaurant's kitchen system to streamline custom orders and delivery, reducing long queues and providing detailed nutritional information for informed food choices. Its loyalty program fosters customer retention and satisfaction.
- Inspiration
- Kinmuni was inspired by the Sharpen challenge to design a nutrition calculator interface for a local restaurant. Motivated by limited nutritional awareness and the lack of flexible meal options in Vientiane, Laos, Kinmuni was created to empower healthier eating habits while improving the restaurant's customer experience and efficiency. The design draws on insights from real users seeking convenience, dietary customization, and better nutritional education.
- Research
- The design research involved informal and semi-structured interviews with local cafe-goers, entrepreneurs, and health-conscious individuals to identify barriers to healthier eating. The methodology included qualitative data collection, direct observations, and usability testing with six participants. Key insights revealed that users valued customizable meal options and easy access to nutritional data, influencing the interface's final design and feature set.
- Challenge
- The primary challenge was achieving a balance between developing a viable business solution and addressing the nuanced needs of consumers, particularly diverse dietary requirements. Practical constraints were carefully navigated to create an innovative approach that resolved common pain points while maintaining real-world applicability. Through an iterative design process, the user interface was refined to ensure clarity, intuitiveness, and ease of use.
- Realization and Technology
- The design process, grounded in Google's UX methodology, began with thorough user research, wireframing, and iterative prototyping. In-house development of branding, packaging, and illustrations ensured both originality and intellectual property protection. We integrated competitive analysis, empathy mapping, customer journey mapping, the Crazy Eights ideation method, and a detailed usability study plan complete with testing instruction cards.
- Operation and Interaction
- Users can browse a digital menu, view nutritional details, and customize their meals by adjusting ingredients. Orders are sent directly to the restaurant's kitchen system, allowing efficient meal preparation and delivery. The interface also includes a loyalty program and scheduling features for recurring orders.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2023 and concluded in May 2023 in Vientiane, Laos.
- Specifications
- Kinmuni is designed for iOS and Android platforms. It features a minimalistic interface optimized for mobile screens, with an average dimension of 390 x 844 pixels. The interface is designed for high accessibility with scalable UI components and dynamic content.
- Keywords
- nutrition interface, meal customization, food delivery, health, wellness, diet management, mobile interface, UX design
