Roam Mobile Application by Gong Qi Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design

Gong Qi honored 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 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Roam Mobile Application by Gong Qi, designed for Southeast University, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 Roam Mobile Application

Roam is a mobile application designed for emotion management. The application uses a game format in which the user travels through a virtual world by train. Each recorded mood becomes a passenger, shown as a creature whose appearance and expression follow the mood entered. Users can share the reasons behind a mood, give advice to others and write short reflections. Roam stores these solutions and offers them again when a similar mood is detected. Completed tasks give coins for decorations and seeds, and planting unlocks new places to visit.

About Gong Qi

Gong Qi is a student majoring in design and is interested in all cutting-edge issues of design. In particular, he is interested in game design, XR and popular science education, and is interested in exploring cross fields such as human-computer interaction in his later academic career. She ranked first in her major during her undergraduate course and won many domestic awards. She has very basic professional knowledge and interesting design ideas. With the goal of becoming an excellent interaction designer, keep moving forward.

Award Record

Gong Qi is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

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/139277
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139277
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139277
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/329087

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Roam Mobile Application
Function: Mobile Application
Category: Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software and Electronics & Appliances
Colors: Light Gray, White Smoke, Silver, Tan and Dark Khaki
Images: 5
Client: Southeast University

The Recognition

Laureate: Gong Qi
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #139277

Credits

Team: Yuan Muqi Jin Yuanyuan Wang Feng(Instructor）

Design Details

Unique Properties: In the face of the pressure from society, no matter how powerful the system is, it will collapse. In the era of information fragmentation, our emotions are also easily affected and extreme. At this time, emotion management is very necessary. This app allows people to easily record their emotions by means of games, and better manage their emotions through communication and reflection.
Inspiration: We often see people who resign and travel on the news, healing their hearts with travel. However, it is difficult to have both the moon and sixpence, and the bitterness of life can rarely be reconciled with scattered happiness. When there are many restrictions with dreams, roaming thoughts, a game-based emotion management app, gives users the possibility to "embark on the spiritual journey".
Research: Tyep of Research： Interaction Design Research Research Objectives： Understand the pain points of people's emotional management at present, encourage users to record their emotions through the cured app game design, and use big data and accurate mutual assistance suggestions to help people get out of their emotional difficulties. Methodology： Desktop research, questionnaire survey, expert interview, user interview
Challenge: The challenge is how to make users feel fun and keep recording their feelings? We have introduced many collection and incentive mechanisms to make users feel that they are really traveling and can communicate with their travel partners (our mood). This is a good means. With the recorded information, we can use the information to analyze users' emotions and give them appropriate suggestions when they are in a bad mood. We don't participate in many social activities, but people can give advice and encouragement to each other. We also designed lovely illustrations to make people feel warm and healing.
Realization and Technology: First, several versions of the sketch were drawn to determine the basic structure of the APP. Then, the prototype and low-fidelity production of the interface were carried out on the ink knife software. After low-fidelity prototype testing and further iteration, we used Adobe XD, Illustrator, and Procreate software on the tablet side to draw high-fidelity visual elements such as illustrations and icons, and made interactive models on XD .
Operation and Interaction: You are a traveler from a foreign land and have registered the operation right of a travel train in "ROAM Universe". You can set off from "the center of the world - the world garden", swim in the vast world, and have a dialogue with the passengers on the "inter heart train" - your daily mood. Maybe you will know yourself better during the dialogue and learn how to embrace your emotions. In order to motivate you to record your mood, we have added a series of incentive mechanisms, so enjoy "roaming"!
Project Duration and Location: The project began in March 2021 in Nanjing, China. In July of the same year, preliminary prototype testing and product development were completed. The project was completed in Nanjing in October 2021.
Specifications: This app using iPhone 8 as the template, and referring to the official interface design specification of IOS. This app perfectly reproduces people's beautiful experience in the process of travel. Users have officially become a member of the train operation since "registering the right to use an interstellar train". Then they need to invite these "mood passengers" to get on the bus by recording their mood. Passengers may be different kinds of creatures, such as flowers in the world garden and cats on the Cat Island, and their appearance and expression will be affected by your mood. Suppose you travel to Cat Island. This means that if you are surprised today, you will record a surprised cat.
Keywords: APP, UI design, UX design, Emotion Management, Young