Girls Find Girls App by Yingxiao Ouyang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award in Zilver in Mobiele Technologieën, Applicaties en Software Ontwerp Competition Category.

ZilverMobiel· 2025

Girls Find Girls App

by Yingxiao Ouyang

Client: OYYX Design Studio

A' Design Award in Zilver Winner in Mobiel Category

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The Design

About Girls Find Girls App

Girls Find Girls is een mobiele app waarmee vrouwen industrieën kunnen onderzoeken en de vrouwelijke aanwezigheid kunnen begrijpen. Het gebrek aan vrouwelijke vertegenwoordiging is een van de redenen waarom vrouwen bepaalde industrieën niet kiezen, zelfs als ze er passie voor hebben. Traditionele loopbaanrapporten kunnen bevooroordeeld zijn op basis van geslacht. Het vereist diepgaande kennis en veel tijd om vrouwgerichte carrière-inzichten te achterhalen. Deze app maakt gebruik van realtime data, geavanceerde inzichten en vrouwenorganisaties om jonge meisjes en volwassen vrouwen te helpen de industrie vanuit hun eigen perspectief te bekijken.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Zilver

Girls Find Girls App is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Zilver, een buitengewoon prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan topontwerpen die prachtig en indrukwekkend zijn. Winnaars in Zilver zijn enorm briljante en uiterst creatieve werken die de uitmuntende expertise, het talent en de scherpzinnigheid van hun ontwerpers illustreren. Girls Find Girls App wordt verwacht een prachtig paradepaardje te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en diepgaand innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Zilver heeft gewonnen, is een hoogst opmerkelijke, bewonderde uitvinding die baat en de grenzen van kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie verlegt. Girls Find Girls App is een zeer benijde creatie die verlangens oproept, positieve gevoelens brengt en verbazing en verwondering doet ontvlammen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Girls Find Girls is an app to quantify female presence and encourage female to pursue their career. Lacking of female representation is one of the reasons females not choose certain industries, even if they are passionate about it. Traditional career reports can be largely biased by gender. The app seeks to use live data, advanced insights and woman communities to help young girls and adult females to have a holistic view in an easy and creative way.
Dimensions & Packaging: The app is a responsive app for 390px - 960px width phone. Content placement and size will be automatically adjusted based on phone sizes.
Tags: App, Female, Career, Data Analysis, Gender Bias
Production Technology: Girls Find Girls is an app for both andriod and apple mobile phones. The app utilizes Labor Force Statistics to provide users with advanced data and insights.
Design Challenge: The most critical challenge is about the tone of the design. While females have been encouraged to compete with men, this app is not intended to treat female as a hidden secondary gender. Instead, the app is choosing a tone that is encouraging females to better understand themselves and become a better version of themselves. The data charts are designed in a way that shows female progress without using male presence as a benchmark. The app intends to leverage on female progress to inspire young girls who are hesitate to choose their passionate career, and help adult females who are struggling with hidden gender bias.
Research: 6 user interview was conducted to understand challenges in female career exploration. One of the biggest pain points coming out of the research is a lack of female representation. Females find it hard to answer questions like "Is this industry a good fit for me, as a female?" Traditional career reports contains gender bias and it takes time and efforts to deep dive into details. The project presented a solution to the target users to explore the industry and have a holistic view in an ubiquitous way.
Inspiration: Many females struggle to answer "Is this industry a good fit for me, as a female?" The app is inspired by multiple career reports, friends' career stories and my 6 year experience in B2B industry. While data analytics has been successful in financial, supply chain and healthcare, it can be a creative solution for females to explore their career and not drop out easily. Rather than treating females as a secondary gender hidden behind reports, the app follows female-centered design to encourage them to make their own career decisions.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2024 to Oct 2024 in Jersey City, NJ.
Operation Flow: Female career explorers can use Insights tab to scroll through latest female employment insights to find interesting patterns. Then they can click into Trends to compare female presence percentage and number by industry. This will allow them to answer questions like "Where are females working?" If they are interested in certain industry, they can click into the industry to identify popular female roles, female career paths and female
salary. In order to research deep into the industry, female can use Community tab to connect with local organizations and find inspiring female leaders.
Image Credits: Female 3D Stock image: Designed by Freepik.com
Female Stock Images: Provided by Unsplash.com