Funaging Ngoliso Ea Sehlopha Sa Maqheku by Ting-Han Chen

Funaging Ngoliso Ea Sehlopha Sa Maqheku by Ting-Han Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Meta, Leano le Tshebeletso Competition Category.

TšepeTshebeletso· 2023

Funaging Ngoliso Ea Sehlopha Sa Maqheku

by Ting-Han Chen

Client: Play Design Lab

Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Tshebeletso Category

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The Design

About Funaging Ngoliso Ea Sehlopha Sa Maqheku

FunAging ke tšebeletso ea thuto e fanang ka lihlopha tsa li-smartphone app ho tšehetsa le ho matlafatsa maqheku. Lintlha tsa sehlopha li arolelanoa le maqheku ka Line, e leng sesebelisoa se tsebahalang haholo sa batho ba baholo Taiwan. Leha ho le joalo, maqheku a mangata a tobana le mathata ha a leka ho ingolisa bakeng sa litlelase ho Line ka lebaka la sebopeho sa eona se sa ba sebeliseng hantle. Ho rarolla bothata bona, morero ona o sebelisa monahano oa moralo oa litšebeletso tsa batho ba baholo ho ntlafatsa ts'ebetso ea ngoliso ea sehlopha. Ka ho etsa tlhahlobo e felletseng ea moralo, re tseba le ho rarolla mathata a mosebelisi (UX).

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award

Funaging Ngoliso Ea Sehlopha Sa Maqheku ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Funaging Ngoliso Ea Sehlopha Sa Maqheku e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Funaging Ngoliso Ea Sehlopha Sa Maqheku e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Difficulties in registering the class for the elderly, such as unaware of key information during the process, unable to find specific function, or uncertainty for whether they have successfully registered the class, and so forth.

In this project, we use senior-centered service design thinking to review the overall class registration process to identify key UX problems. A set of systematic design diagnosis clarifies the design issues, with insightful design deliverables, to make the service more fluent and effective.
Dimensions & Packaging: 1. Optimized service workflow, UI elements and graphic assets;
2. MENU architecture, and Event Cards templates for LINE App.
3. Improved service logic and guidelines.
Tags: service design, elderly, senior-centered, accessible design, older adults, senior users, inclusive design, universal design, aging, senior citizens
Production Technology: We employ the following focus as our design approaches:
(1) Customer journey mapping;
(2) Sorting out the main axes of the customer journey;
(3) Consolidation of key touchpoints on the main axis;
(4) Interface design (UI/UX) on key touchpoints;
(5) Experience iterations.

Through implementation, we evaluate the direction of revision through the actual use by the elderly users, and the "experience iteration" goes back and forth many times, approaching the final and perfect design outcome.
Design Challenge: Since LINE has covered 95% of Taiwanese population’s social media use, deeply tied to the elderly’s daily social lives, it’s not practical to introduce new platforms to pull them out of what they have already accustomed to. However, LINE app doesn't provide open source code for flexible customization, thus we had to invent new techniques under LINE's technical constraints to align with elderly's cognitive capabilities.

For instance, some elderly can't remember which classes they have had registered. Hence, we design a pictorial card with class information to be saved on their smart phone as their reminder. Or, as it's not possible to adjust character spacing and line spacing, we use rephrasing and blank lines to enhance readability for the paragraphs. These details are not obvious, but play a big role.
Research: This project attempts to improve FunAging's online registration experience for the elderly. We used a more macro service design perspective to tackle interface operation problems under technical constraints. Through elderly-centered service design thinking, the percentage of elderly calling for help during the registration process has been decreased from 20% to 0 in a short period.
Inspiration: FunAging is an educational brand in Taiwan offering smartphone app courses of various topics to accompany and empower the elderly, enabling them to maintain a social life and enjoy learning new things.

FunAging disseminates the new course information with the elderly via LINE, a widely used social app in Taiwan, also among the elderly. But many newbies have difficulties in using it, especially in registering courses via LINE, as it does not optimize its overall design for the elderly.

How might we better redesign the overall service, especially for the course registration experience, for the elderly?
Project Duration: The project started in June 2022 and finished in Dec 2022 in Taipei.
Operation Flow: We identify 12 UX issues in the customer journey mapping. With corresponding elderly-first design prescriptions, a new service workflow is implemented, with user interface and design artifacts remodeled. In the end, the percentage of elderly calling for help during the registration process has been decreased from 20% to 0 in a short period.