Pillzzle Shaqada Ugu Muhiimsan: Xirmada Dawada Carruurta by Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang

Pillzzle Shaqada Ugu Muhiimsan: Xirmada Dawada Carruurta by Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Alaabta Dhallaanka, Carruurta iyo Ilmaha Competition Category.

BirAlaabta Dhallaanka· 2025

Pillzzle Shaqada Ugu Muhiimsan: Xirmada Dawada Carruurta

by Yichi Chen and Yuanyuan Liang

Client: Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Alaabta Dhallaanka Category

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The Design

About Pillzzle Shaqada Ugu Muhiimsan: Xirmada Dawada Carruurta

Qoraalka Buugga: Pillzzle waa naqshad xirmo dawo oo loogu talagalay carruurta. Loox kasta wuxuu qaadaa afar kiniin, kiniin kastaana waxa uu ku xiran yahay hal qaybood oo puzzle ah. Marka afarta qaybood ee loox isku mid ah la isku daro, waxay sameeyaan qaab xayawaan oo dhammaystiran. Waalidiintu waxay ka jeexi karaan hal qaybood oo puzzle-shape ah oo raacaya xariiqaha calaamadaysan, ka soocaan lakabka sare, furaan foosaska aluminium-ka, kadibna siiyaan carruurta kiniinka iyada oo lala socoto qaybta puzzle-ka si abaalgud ah. Xirmadu waxa laga sameeyay balaastig, foosas aluminium ah, iyo TPU. Nidaamka ururinta waxa loogu talagalay in carruurtu ay si dareen leh ugu qasbanaadaan inay dhamaystiraan koorsada daawaynta.

The Recognition

About the Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award

Pillzzle Shaqada Ugu Muhiimsan: Xirmada Dawada Carruurta waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf leh oo la siiyo naqshado wanaagsan oo buuxiya shuruudaha xirfadeed iyo kuwa warshadeed ee laga filayo hal-abuurro si wanaagsan loo naqshadeeyay. Guuleystayaasha Birta waxay muujiyaan xirfad weyn, takhasus sare, fahan khabiir iyo awood hal-abuur oo abuurayaashooda. Pillzzle Shaqada Ugu Muhiimsan: Xirmada Dawada Carruurta waa hal-abuur la filayo inuu noqdo mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, wax ku ool ah oo cusub. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu isku daraa hab-dhaqannada ugu wanaagsan warshadda wuxuuna leeyahay sifooyin farsamo oo karti leh oo ku xiran aqoon iyo hibo. Dhammaystirkeeda awgeed, Pillzzle Shaqada Ugu Muhiimsan: Xirmada Dawada Carruurta waa mudan ixtiraam, waxaana loo naqshadeeyay inay keento hagaajin nololeed oo ka caawisa in adduunka laga dhigo meel ka wanaagsan.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a medicine package design based on the characteristics of puzzles games. A board have four pills, each pills corresponds to a piece of puzzle, all the puzzles on the same board put together can create a complete cute animal. Parents can make a deal with their kids: for every pill they take, they get a piece of the puzzle. This reward system helps to enhance children's medication experience, make child more willing to cooperate with the treatment and relieve family stress.
Dimensions & Packaging: Product dimensions: 104.8mm x 58.5mm x 9.3mm
Package dimensions: 120.8mm x 368.5mm x 2mm
Tags: Kids, Children, Medicine, Blister Pack, Packaging, Animals, Puzzles
Production Technology: It is mainly composed of plastic, aluminum foil and TPU.
Design Challenge: 1. In the design process, the most difficult thing for us is to conceive the small animal shape on the pills board. For personal design style, we hope that when the puzzles from the pills board are put together, they can create a small animal full of geometric sense, but also meet the aesthetic experience of children, without losing cuteness and color. In addition, when the puzzle is scattered on the pills board, we also hope that it can roughly form a harmonious and regular rectangle to achieve a coordinated aesthetic feeling. Based on this, we conducted a lot of research and sketch deduction. We first investigated and summarized many animals and their characteristics. Second, we kept sketching on paper to try to divide their shape into four parts and geometrize them, and to arrange them into a rectangle with as few gaps as possible. In this way, after the selection of some animals was excluded, we selected three animal puzzle styles with the best visual effect with each other based on how the puzzle looks when they‘re put together. 2. The packaging design of the pills board is also a difficult point. Because our design is the main entry point clever, so we do not want to use ordinary packaging mode. After many investigations, we chose the present effect, which can make it easier for people to open and close and integrate the instructions into the package.
Research: Our main research program is the pills board design for kids, the goal is to improve the medical experience in children's treatment course through emotional design, so that kids are less resistant to taking medicine. In design process, we conducted interviews and surveys, and decided to start from the perspective of "collection and reward mechanism". After a large number of desktop and second-hand research, we got the prototype of the current project, and further analyzed many cases for further improvement. We also used hard cardboard with high gram weight for prototype testing, and made the designed jigsaw to verify the feasibility. This study can effectively improve children's medical experience, relieve parents' pressure, promote doctor-patient relationship, and create a more caring social medical environment for kids.
Inspiration: We observed that most of kids had the experience of not taking medicine well with the treatment course. Moreover, we also found that kids are often attracted to specific color and shapes, fun interactions and progressive reward mechanisms. Based on these phenomenon, we redesigned the package of the medicine, breaking away from the traditional cold and impersonal package, and incorporated puzzle games and cute animal shape that kids enjoy, trying to use an innovative way to reduce kids' fear of medicine, shifting their attitude, making them less resistant to taking medication.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2024 in Zhengzhou and finished in September 2024 in Beijing.
Operation Flow: 1. The child gets sick and needs to take medicine for a period of time according to the treatment course. 2. According to the tear marks on the medicine board, parents tear off a piece of puzzle-shaped medicine board with a single pill. 3. Separate the top puzzle layer of the board, tear the aluminum foil, and take out the pill. 4. Give child the pill and reward him with a puzzle to collect. 5. Kid put all the puzzles from the same pill board together to get a cute animal puzzle. (The specific reward agreement can be flexible by parents)
Team Members: Yuanyuan Liang