For the final iteration, we wanted to keep the personality of Dote at the forefront, light airy, and fun with deep eggplant colors to provide grounding realism. We also wanted to incorporate the feeling of an e-commerce website, leaning more towards minimalistic and clean design.
Course
Start-Up is a 1- week design sprint hosted by FLUX and SCADPro aimed at connecting designers to real industry professionals to present their novel start-up ideas. Our disciplinary team of 4 designers comprised of a UX designer, Themed entertainment, Industrial Designer, and Photographer was tasked with answering this Start-Up Prompt:
Where do we go from here?
2022
Year
1 week
Duration
My role
Interaction Lead
Research Lead
Visual Design
Final Presentation
Figma UI
Deliverables
Start Up FLUX- SCADPro
Design Sprint
Problem
With the rise of discontent in relationships and spike in divorces, our team knew we needed to devise a tool that could reconnect partners and build long long-lasting relationships
If we design a system that allows for couples to partake in frequent planned dates and provide talking points to strike up deep, meaningful conversations with each other, then we can foster healthy relationships built to last.
Our Assumptions
Research Phase
What We Knew
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88% of people prefer a partner that is actively focusing on their mental health and wants to grow
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Setting aside a specific recurring date, time, and location to have a check-in is an easy way to replicate one of the best parts of therapy in your own home. - KARA LISSY, LCS
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“Setting aside a specific recurring date, time, and location to have a check-in is an easy way to replicate one of the best parts about therapy in your own home” - KARA LISSY, LCS
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, says "one of the biggest challenges is the disconnection between couples after years of being together" -Joree Rose, a licensed marriage and family therapist
Wireframe Design- Web
As I began designing the style of the site, I went through many iterations. With every iteration, I wanted to really make sure I kept two factors ever-present
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Designing fun and interactive experience for potential users that looked attractive
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Maintaining good UX practices so that users could intuitively navigate
Final UI - Feature Callouts- Web
Mobile Features
Final Deliverables
A subscription-based service delivering personalized experiences to build healthy foundations and strengthen existing relationships.
Our solution consists of:
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monthly deliveries of date night boxes
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weekly date night prompts through our mobile interface
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both paired with dote talking points.
Introducing Dote
What is a Dote Box?
Every dote box is an "experience in a box" with each distinct box, like our Napoli Box, providing our three core elements
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Something to Keep
2. Something to talk about
3. Something to remember