Baidu for the Elderly מאָבילע אַפּליקאַציע by Baidu Meux is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award אין בראָנדז in מאָבילע טעכנאָלאָגיעס, אַפּליקאַציעס און סאָפֿטוואַר דיזײַן Competition Category.
בראָנדזמאָביל· 2022
Baidu for the Elderly מאָבילע אַפּליקאַציע
by Baidu Meux
Client: baidumeux,Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd
A' Design Award אין בראָנדז Winner in מאָביל Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Baidu for the Elderly מאָבילע אַפּליקאַציע
Baidu פֿאַר די עלטערע ליבע איז אַ מאָבילע אַפּליקאַציע וואָס גיט אינהאַלט און סערוויסעס פֿאַר עלטערע יוזערס. די אַפּליקאַציע ניצט אַ עלטער-פֿרייַנדליכע דיזיין־סיסטעם מיט גרעסערע שריפֿטן, אַ פֿאַראייניקטע פֿיד-לייאַוט, פֿאַרגרעסערטע פֿינגער-ריר-ערטער און פּשוטע ווערטער. אַלע אינהאַלט קען מען לייענען אָדער הערן. וידעאָס פֿאַרמאָגן אינטעליגענטע אונטערטיטלען. שטים- און בילד-זוך דערלויבן עלטערע יוזערס צו זוכן דורך רעדן אָדער דורך נעמען אַ פֿאָטאָ. שטים-סינטעז קען נוצן פֿאַרשריבענע קולות פֿון משפחה-מיטגלידער צום לייענען טעקסטן אויף אַ קול. די אַפּליקאַציע לויפֿט אויף ביידע אַנדרויד און איאָס סיסטעמען.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award אין בראָנדז
Baidu for the Elderly מאָבילע אַפּליקאַציע איז אַ געווינער פֿון דעם A' Design Award אין בראָנדז, אַן העכסט פּרעסטיזשע אָנערקענונג וואָס ווערט געגעבן צו אויסגעצייכנטע דיזײַנס וואָס שטעכן אַרויס מיט קרעאַטיוויטעט, דערפֿינדונג און קלוגשאַפֿט. בראָנדז-געווינער זענען זייער בקיאותדיקע און אויפֿפֿאַלנדיק קרעאַטיווע אַרטיפֿאַקטן וואָס באַשטעטיקן די ברייטע דערפֿאַרונג, פֿאַנטאַזיע און דערפֿינדונג-קראַפֿט פֿון זייערע דיזײַנערס. פֿון Baidu for the Elderly מאָבילע אַפּליקאַציע ווערט דערוואַרט אַז עס איז אַ הויך געשעצטע, באַוווּנדערטע און ליבע זאַך וואָס איז אויפֿפֿאַלנדיק פּראָפֿעסיאָנעל און אינאָוואַטיוו. דער דאָזיקער געווינענדיקער דיזײַן פֿון A' Design Award אין בראָנדז פֿאַראײניקט די בעסטע פּראַקטיקן אין קונסט, וויסנשאַפֿט, דיזײַן און טעכנאָלאָגיע, און איז אויסגעצייכנט פֿאַר זײַן אויפֿמערקזאַמקייט צו דעטאַלן. Baidu for the Elderly מאָבילע אַפּליקאַציע באַפֿרידיקט באַדערפֿענישן פּראַכטפֿול, רירט אָן תּאוות, פֿאַרכּישופֿט געפֿילן און רופֿט נײַגעריקייט.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- China is facing serious aging problems. Baidu App for the Elderly provides rich content and services for the elderly. It also provides a systematic, age-friendly design which is convenient for the users to read and listen contents, and use the app. In combination with different tools and AI technologies such as voice and image synthesis, the app offers abundant services for the elderly to help them enrich life, enjoy digital services, and keep up with the digital era.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Baidu App for the Elderly has a great ability to adapt to both Android and iOS systems.
- Tags
- UX, the Elderly, Age-friendly, AI, Online Service
- Production Technology
- Baidu has abundant accumulation of AI technology. Based on its AI algorithm, the app offers personalized contents that meet the elderly's interests. Videos with intelligent subtitles help the elderly acquire information easily. By voice synthesis, the elderly can record family members' voices to broadcast texts which can bring emotional companionship to them and solve dyslexia and visual fatigue. Voice and image search help them search by saying or taking photos.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge is that there are neither related aging design standards nor apps that designed for the elderly in the industry. Therefore, after systematic research, we designed an age-friendly information structure and layout that simplify the operation of the app, which makes the elderly not only willing to use, but also can easily handle it. We also cooperated with CSIA to formulate China's first age-friendly design standard, which will be applied to more and more elderly products.
- Research
- We had questionnaires and interviews to build a comprehensive understanding of demands of elderly people deeply. The elderlies are facing physiological function degradation and emotional loneliness. But the existed products only solve basic experience problems by increasing the font size and simplifying complex functions. Through the usability test and eye-tracking experiment, we designed the age-friendly design system. It is combined with AI technologies to meet emotional demands of the elderly.
- Inspiration
- The aging population has reached 264 million in China. However, there are few APPs are specifically designed for the elderly to meet their demands. Firstly, the elderly cannot get information and services equally because of the degradation in vision, hearing, and cognition. Secondly, they are forced to become empty nesters because the young moved to big cities for opportunities. Older people are vulnerable to loneliness. Therefore, Baidu takes social responsibility and developed the app.
- Project Duration
- The project started in December 2020 and debuted in China in January 2021, it is still going. The team members were based in Beijing, China.
- Operation Flow
- All the contents can be both read and listened. Unified feed layout and enlarged touch area enable the elderly to use the app with simple gestures. Voice input and image input methods increase user experience. Larger fonts improve dyslexia. Simpler and straightforward copywriting makes the functions easier to understand. All these systematic, elderly-oriented designs make the app easy to read, listen to, operate, and understand.
- Patents
- patented.ZL201510535732.5.Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.2015, patented.JP6785921..Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.2020,patented.US10199036b2.Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.2019
Copyrights belong to Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd,2021 - Team Members
- Dou Shen,Yujie Shi, Xuan Li, Xiaojun Yu, Lei Zhao, Tianci Li, Xinrui Guo, Bo Ye
- Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd,2021
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