Press Release
Pure App Interface Design Mobile App by Jiaying Zhu and Huicong Hu Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Jiaying Zhu and Huicong Hu for mobile technologies, applications and software design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category for Pure App Interface Design Mobile App by Jiaying Zhu and Huicong Hu. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Pure App Interface Design Mobile App
Pure App is a mobile application designed for plogging, an activity that combines jogging with picking up litter. The app guides each session with details such as route, trash can location, distance, speed and energy use. Every collected item is tracked and turned into points, so users can compare results with friends. Team plogging is also supported online, allowing group activities and friendly competition. Additional features include tasks, environmental quizzes and an online store for green products.
About Jiaying Zhu and Huicong Hu
Jiaying Zhu is a graduate student majoring in digital media art. Her undergraduate major is visual communication design. She is interested in Interaction Design and User Experience Design. She likes to participate in public welfare activities. Most of her design works are for public welfare purposes. She hopes to use design to make the world a better place.
Award Record
With this recognition, Jiaying Zhu and Huicong Hu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Award
The A' Mobile Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good design in mobile industry by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to mobile designers, application developers, software engineers and user interface designers from all countries. Typical entries include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. The awarded mobile designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/mobile
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/101614
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/101614
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!101614
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/273208
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Pure App Interface Design Mobile App
- Function
- Mobile App
- Category
- Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Lavender, Medium Aquamarine, Light Blue, Powder Blue and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jiaying Zhu and Huicong Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #101614
Credits
- Team
- Jiaying Zhu and Huicong Hu
- Image Credits
- Images by Jiaying Zhu, Huicong Hu, 2020
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Plogging, a combination of jogging and picking up litter, starts to become the new eco-friendly fitness trend. Pure App is designed that coaches your plogging, and bring your friends along for the ride. It includes main features of Individual Plogging, Team Plogging, Field Activities, Healthy lifestyle, Online eco-Mall, and User Profile.
- Inspiration
- Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility. With so many plastic bottles, cartons, plastic bags and other rubbish on the streets of many cities, plogging could help us solve the problem. Picking up litter while running not only strengthens our body, but also beautifies the environment. I've been involved in plogging. It was fun and I hope more people could get involved.
- Research
- In the needs acquisition phase, extensive user interviews among target users are conducted to identify user needs. In the needs analysis phase, Flow Model, Work Activity Affinity Diagram, Hierarchical Task Inventory, Step-by-step Task Interaction Model are constructed to present the relationships among tasks and interactions. In the design phase, brainstorming, story-telling, wire-framing are used to express the design in low fidelity. Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Experience Design are used to build the high-fidelity prototype. In the evaluation phase, user experience evaluation is adopted to explore the feasibility of the design.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge is to explore the feasibility of the App as there is little similar product in the market. We conducted 20 deep contextual interviews and analyses to acquire user needs among target users. In addition, we adopted user experience evaluations to further demonstrate the feasibility on the high fidelity prototype.
- Realization and Technology
- In the conception phase, we conducted situational interview, brainstorming, mind mapping, think aloud, etc. In the design phase, we used Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Experience Design.
- Operation and Interaction
- Pure App can guide user's plogging with all the detail – route, trash can location, distance, speed and calories. It can track every picking up and suggest the right litter type for sorting. Plogging scores are defined in this App to let users easily compare and compete with friends to see where they stand. Online team plogging is also supported in this App.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2019 and finished in February 2020 in Shenzhen.
- Specifications
- Designed for the iOS System
- Keywords
- Interface, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, Plogging, User Experience
