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RareMe App by Cong Fang, Shijian Luo and Jingzhao Pan Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Cong Fang, Shijian Luo and Jingzhao Pan for mobile technologies, applications and software design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category for RareMe App by Cong Fang, Shijian Luo and Jingzhao Pan, designed for Zhejiang University. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 RareMe App
RareMe is a mobile application for people affected by rare diseases. RareMe connects patients and their families with hospitals, medical institutions, pharmacies, doctors and drug developers. Users select a role as a patient, a family member or a health-care provider during registration. Patients can write diaries about their treatment, search for medicines and treatments worldwide, and find other users with similar conditions through a recommendation algorithm. The application is available on iOS and Android. The aim is to give rare disease patients equal attention and care.
About Cong Fang, Shijian Luo and Jingzhao Pan
I am a designer from Zhejiang University, China. When I was very young, I really adore the scientists very much, they can create interesting inventions as many as they can, which bring new changes to the whole world. When I get older, I found that there is something in common between scientists and designers.So I just want to design some interesting things to make our society better. Maybe what I can do is not too much, but designers from all over the world can work together to cerate a better world in the designer's way.
Award Record
This recognition makes Cong Fang, Shijian Luo and Jingzhao Pan 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. The competition 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. Entries typically include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. Awarded mobile designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/mobile
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/111937
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/111937
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!111937
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/279528
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- RareMe App
- Function
- App
- Category
- Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Lavender, Light Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Cong Fang, Shijian Luo and Jingzhao Pan
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #111937
Credits
- Team
- Cong Fang, Shijian Luo, Jingzhao Pan, Tianhe Zhang and Huan Lin
- Image Credits
- The four images used in the app design are from the SHETU website(https://699pic.com/), and have been authorized. The authorization agreement is shown in the link Link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1-s5VTAN_XWqHc2ZyToIegQ Password：70bo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Rare diseases are currently affecting about 300 million patients worldwide. Due to their rare conditions, they cannot get the same degree of treatment and assistance as normal patients, especially in some developing countries. RareMe helps rare diseases patients with their recovery and therapy. By connecting with global medical research, institutions, hospitals, doctors, and drug developers, they can receive equal attention and care.
- Inspiration
- Rare diseases are lately affecting 3.5% - 5.9% of the worldwide population. More than 7,000 rare diseases are known, however, only less than 10% have approved treatment cures or programs. Due to the patients’ rare conditions, they’re not able to get the same degree of care and assistance as normal patients. Moreover, proper medicines and treatments are not available in some developing countries. They have few wardmates to communicate with, either.
- Research
- Rare diseases are currently affecting 3.5% - 5.9% of the worldwide population. There are more than 7,000 rare diseases known in the world, however, only less than 10% of the diseases have approved treatment drugs or programs. Based on this huge social problem, we have conducted extensive interviews with medical professors of Harvard University and Medical Laboratory of Zhejiang University, and are eager to connect rare disease patients around the world in a simple and portable way. We have connected many medical workers and patients via the development of RareMe. In order to improve this current condition, we will add in more and more health-care providers in the future.
- Challenge
- RareMe connects patients and their families with health-care providers, such as hospitals, medical institutions, pharmacies, doctors, drug developers, pharmaceuticals companies, etc. The biggest problem is to contact all stakeholders, promote app through hospitals, medical institutions, and major media platforms, so that patients scattered around the world can know and join RareMe. With the help of a large number of patients gathering to solve the problem of drug research and distribution by low-cost crowdfunding.
- Realization and Technology
- RareMe is an APP,which connects patients and their families with health-care providers, such as hospitals, medical institutions, pharmacies, doctors, drug developers, pharmaceuticals companies, etc. It also links rare disease patients with similar conditions with medical workers through intelligent recommendation algorithm, so as to make them feel not alone.
- Operation and Interaction
- At the beginning of registration, user will choose their own role as patients/family members or health-care providers, then enter the home page. Patients can write disease fighting diaries, seek for other users who have similar syndromes and fight together. They can also seek drugs and treatments around the world. As for health-care providers, they can contact patients quickly via RareMe and offer help.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started in September 2019 in Hangzhou, China, and it is still under developing.
- Specifications
- Launched on IOS and Android
- Keywords
- Rare Disease, app, patients, crowd-funding, mutual aid
