Roam モバイルアプリケーション by Gong Qi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銅賞 in モバイル技術・アプリケーション・ソフトウェアデザイン Competition Category.

銅モバイル· 2022

Roam モバイルアプリケーション

by Gong Qi

Client: Southeast University

A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in モバイル Category

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The Design

About Roam モバイルアプリケーション

Roamは、感情管理のために設計されたモバイルアプリケーションです。本アプリはゲーム形式を採用しており、ユーザーは列車に乗って仮想世界を旅します。記録された気分はそれぞれ乗客となり、入力された気分に応じた外見や表情を持つ生き物として表示されます。ユーザーは気分の背景にある理由を共有したり、他のユーザーに助言を送ったり、短い振り返りを書き留めたりできます。Roamはこれらの解決策を保存し、類似した気分が検出された際に再び提示します。課題を達成するとコインが得られ、装飾品や種と交換でき、種を植えることで新たな訪問先が解放されます。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

Roam モバイルアプリケーションは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Roam モバイルアプリケーションは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Roam モバイルアプリケーションは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: In the face of the pressure from society, no matter how powerful the system is, it will collapse. In the era of information fragmentation, our emotions are also easily affected and extreme. At this time, emotion management is very necessary. This app allows people to easily record their emotions by means of games, and better manage their emotions through communication and reflection.
Dimensions & Packaging: This app using iPhone 8 as the template, and referring to the official interface design specification of IOS. This app perfectly reproduces people's beautiful experience in the process of travel. Users have officially become a member of the train operation since "registering the right to use an interstellar train". Then they need to invite these "mood passengers" to get on the bus by recording their mood. Passengers may be different kinds of creatures, such as flowers in the world garden and cats on the Cat Island, and their appearance and expression will be affected by your mood.

Suppose you travel to Cat Island. This means that if you are surprised today, you will record a surprised cat. You can share with each other what makes you happy in your life. If you are sad, then the sad cat is recorded. You can talk to each other and explain to each other.

Of course, players can also give advice to others to help them better overcome their emotions. Players can also write down their reflections on emotions. For example: I'm sad today because the weather is terrible. Generally, sleeping will make me feel better on rainy days. So the app will identify your solution and record it. The next time it detects the cause of possible mood swings, it can provide users with appropriate solutions in advance.

With the help of app and players' own reflection, they can better understand themselves and help others.

Users can complete the task by recording their mood. The gold coins obtained from the mission can buy decorations or plant seeds in the store. The plant seeds can be used for planting, and obtain the prop "wind message". Through this prop, players can unlock new travel places, feel different game landscapes, and meet more creatures. The overall experience is very fascinating.
Tags: APP, UI design, UX design, Emotion Management, Young
Production Technology: First, several versions of the sketch were drawn to determine the basic structure of the APP. Then, the prototype and low-fidelity production of the interface were carried out on the ink knife software. After low-fidelity prototype testing and further iteration, we used Adobe XD, Illustrator, and Procreate software on the tablet side to draw high-fidelity visual elements such as illustrations and icons, and made interactive models on XD .
Design Challenge: The challenge is how to make users feel fun and keep recording their feelings? We have introduced many collection and incentive mechanisms to make users feel that they are really traveling and can communicate with their travel partners (our mood). This is a good means. With the recorded information, we can use the information to analyze users' emotions and give them appropriate suggestions when they are in a bad mood.

We don't participate in many social activities, but people can give advice and encouragement to each other.

We also designed lovely illustrations to make people feel warm and healing.
Research: Tyep of Research：
Interaction Design Research

Research Objectives：
Understand the pain points of people's emotional management at present, encourage users to record their emotions through the cured app game design, and use big data and accurate mutual assistance suggestions to help people get out of their emotional difficulties.

Methodology：
Desktop research, questionnaire survey, expert interview, user interview
Inspiration: We often see people who resign and travel on the news, healing their hearts with travel.

However, it is difficult to have both the moon and sixpence, and the bitterness of life can rarely be reconciled with scattered happiness. When there are many restrictions with dreams, roaming thoughts, a game-based emotion management app, gives users the possibility to "embark on the spiritual journey".
Project Duration: The project began in March 2021 in Nanjing, China. In July of the same year, preliminary prototype testing and product development were completed. The project was completed in Nanjing in October 2021.
Operation Flow: You are a traveler from a foreign land and have registered the operation right of a travel train in "ROAM Universe". You can set off from "the center of the world - the world garden", swim in the vast world, and have a dialogue with the passengers on the "inter heart train" - your daily mood. Maybe you will know yourself better during the dialogue and learn how to embrace your emotions. In order to motivate you to record your mood, we have added a series of incentive mechanisms, so enjoy "roaming"!
Team Members: Gong Qi
Yuan Muqi Jin Yuanyuan Wang Feng(Instructor）