Press Release
All Here Mobile Application by Chengbo Li and Huicong Hu Is Granted the A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Chengbo Li and Huicong Hu acknowledged for mobile technologies, applications and software design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 30, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category for All Here Mobile Application by Chengbo Li and Huicong Hu, designed for Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About All Here Mobile Application
All Here is a mobile application designed to help people maintain close relationships across long distances. A sense of shared space is created through personal avatars and virtual rooms. The framework of the application is built around emotional expression, gesture interaction, common tasks and interactive memories. Users can share schedules, moods and symbolic signals, such as a vibration that means missing someone or a live heartbeat rate. Friends can also set joint tasks and review a record of past interactions. All Here is designed for the iOS system.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chengbo Li and Huicong Hu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2021 - 2022 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/135903
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/135903
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!135903
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/325014
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- All Here Mobile Application
- Function
- Mobile Application
- Category
- Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Khaki, Tomato, Lavender, Gold and Light Salmon
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chengbo Li and Huicong Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #135903
Credits
- Team
- Chengbo Li and Huicong Hu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- All Here is an online virtual social platform that aims to help users maintain long-distance intimate relationships by creating a social atmosphere with a sense of scenario realism through virtual images and virtual rooms. The application is based on the elements of maintaining intimate relationships and forms an overall framework around emotional expression, gesture interaction, common tasks, and interactive memories.
- Inspiration
- Long distances, time difference, epidemic lockdown, etc. prevent people from communicating face to face for long periods of time, reducing communication opportunities and leading to less effective and stable commutation of intimate relationships. All Here focuses on creating scenario-based and emotional social networking platforms to provide a more experiential social platform for intimate relationships.
- Research
- Using user-centered design, design requirements were extracted through situational interviews with target users, and detailed user interview worksheets were integrated. This includes user concerns and needs for long-distance intimacy maintenance, factors affecting user user growth, personal preferences, perceptions, living conditions, planning, etc. In the requirements analysis stage, the process model, work activity affinity graph, and hierarchical task lists were constructed, so that the process framework and task interaction model could be established as the basis of conceptual design.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge in the design is how to provide a better experience for the users in the process of using the project. We should be clear that although the application relies on technical means to provide a social platform for intimacy for the users, the essence should focus more on the emotional experience during the user interaction. The design process is difficult. Therefore, after formulating the design plan and interaction strategy, we need to keep combining practice and exploration, and keep trying and making mistakes to achieve a good user experience.
- Realization and Technology
- At the conceptual design phase, we conducted brainstorming, mind mapping, scene interviews, etc. At the detailed design phase, we used Figma,Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Experience Design.
- Operation and Interaction
- First enter the app and invite your friends to create different intimacy type rooms, which will be presented in the home page. You and your friend can create your own avatars, which will appear in the room to simulate your situation with your friend. In the home page. You can upload your own schedule and see the schedules of other friends. The app will consolidate the schedules of your friends in that room and present them in a visual format, so that others can easily browse the common free time between friends. At the same time, users can upload their moods and display them along with their avatars.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2021 and finished in January 2022 in Shenzhen.
- Specifications
- Designed for iOS system
- Keywords
- User Interface Design, Emotional Design, User Experience
