Silver Digital Product Design · 2025
Livia Application
by Xianghan Wang, Jing Yao and Rui Xi
- A' Design Award 2025 Silver Winner in Digital Product Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Xianghan Wwang, Jing Yao, Rui Xi
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 35,348
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About Livia Application
Livia is an AI powered digital companion designed to provide emotional support through memory driven interactions, mood tracking, and proactive engagement. Unlike traditional chatbots, Livia remembers user experiences, initiates conversations, and evolves over time. Integrated AR technology brings Livia into the real world, creating an immersive presence, while smartwatch compatibility ensures continuous, real time support. By blending AI companionship with human like emotional intelligence, Livia redefines how technology can foster meaningful connections and enhance well being.
Livia Application by Xianghan Wang, Jing Yao, and Rui Xi exemplifies the contemporary evolution of digital wellness design, wherein technology assumes the role of empathetic companion rather than merely functional tool. Positioned within the broader movement toward humanistic interface design that emerged prominently in the second decade of the twenty-first century, this work demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how visual language can bridge the perceived coldness of digital interaction with the warmth of genuine emotional support. The designers have achieved remarkable unity across multiple device platforms, maintaining coherent brand identity while sensitively adapting to the distinct interaction paradigms of smartphone and smartwatch interfaces. The central character, rendered with deliberate simplicity and warmth through its rounded organic form and friendly expression, functions as a visual anchor that transforms abstract artificial intelligence into approachable presence. Technical accomplishment is evident in the careful calibration of the color palette, where mint greens suggest freshness and calm, coral warmths imply emotional availability, and neutral backgrounds provide visual rest between moments of engagement. The journal interface visible on the left device reveals thoughtful information architecture, with date-organized entries suggesting a continuous narrative of personal reflection while maintaining privacy through abstracted summaries. The audio waveform visualization introduces temporal dimension, acknowledging that meaningful connection unfolds through conversation rather than static display. The work invites consideration of how design might cultivate genuine emotional resonance within technological frameworks, encouraging viewers to reflect upon their own relationships with digital companions and the evolving boundaries between artificial and authentic care.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Livia redefines digital companionship, offering genuine support by remembering conversations, preferences, and emotions. Unlike chatbots, she provides the warmth of a trusted friend through personalized interactions. By creating judgment-free spaces, Livia addresses global loneliness. Stepping into real-world environments for interactive experiences through AR, while smartwatch integration ensures always-available support. Through intuitive design, Livia makes AI feel personal and alive.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Android or iOS/watchOS operating systems
- Tags
- AI, Companion App, Mental Health, Emotional Support, AR
- Production Technology
- Livia was developed using AI technologies, including natural language processing, memory systems, and emotion recognition algorithms. The design process prioritized user-centric methodologies, incorporating iterative testing and feedback loops to refine its intuitive interface. AR functionality leverages real-time spatial mapping to create immersive interactions, while seamless integration across devices, including smartwatches, ensures a cohesive and accessible user experience.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge was making Livia feel truly "alive" by combining emotional intelligence with proactive engagement. We struggled to balance advanced AI features like memory recall, mood tracking, and AR with accessibility. External factors like ensuring data privacy and seamless multi-device integration added complexity. Overcoming these challenges required iterative design, real-world user feedback, and innovative use of emotion-driven technology to build a lifelike, empathetic companion.
- Project Duration
- The project started in May 2024 in California, US.
- Operation Flow
- Livia operates through simple, user friendly interactions. Users can call, text, or use AR mode to engage with Livia, who responds with empathy and memory-driven insights. Key features include mood tracking, proactive checkins, and personalized journaling. AR brings Livia into the user's space for lifelike interactions, while smartwatch integration ensures constant support. This seamless flow fosters meaningful connections, making Livia a companion that feels truly alive and attentive.
- Research
- We conducted user-centric research to address loneliness and enhance digital companionship. Using surveys, interviews, and usability tests with diverse participants, we identified a need for proactive engagement and emotional personalization. Insights shaped Livia's AR interactions, memory systems, and mood tracking, creating a lifelike, accessible companion. The research impacts society by tackling loneliness and design by redefining standards for AI-driven emotional support.
- Inspiration
- Livia was designed to address global loneliness and the barriers to mental health support, with nearly one in four people worldwide experiencing loneliness. Stigma, high costs, and limited access leave many without help. Livia offers a personalized, always-accessible companion that uses memory systems and mood tracking to build meaningful connections. It provides a safe, judgment-free space for users to process emotions and feel understood, ensuring tailored, and readily available support.
- Image Credits
- Xianghan Wang, Jing Yao, Rui Xi
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Livia was inspired by the global mental health crisis—particularly the rising rates of loneliness affecting nearly one in four people worldwide. Our goal was to design a digital companion that feels emotionally intelligent, always available, and truly supportive. We aimed to reduce barriers to mental health care by providing proactive, judgment-free interaction through intuitive AI and immersive technologies.
Our primary focus was to make AI feel human—emotionally aware, contextually intelligent, and genuinely caring. We wanted users to feel seen, heard, and remembered. We also focused on accessibility, ensuring users could reach Livia anytime, anywhere, through mobile, AR, and wearable integration.
We plan to continue evolving Livia with deeper personalization features, such as adaptive emotional memory, multi-language support, and integration with wellness ecosystems. We also aim to expand AR capabilities to allow Livia to exist in more physical environments, from personal spaces to public installations.
The project began in May 2024 in California. It has been an ongoing effort, combining intensive research, prototyping, and user testing over the course of several months.
Livia was a self-initiated project, born out of a shared passion for emotional design and a desire to address an urgent societal need. It was not commissioned; we created it to respond to a real gap in how digital products support emotional well-being.
We currently retain production and distribution rights and plan to continue developing Livia as an independent product. We are open to strategic partnerships that align with our values around mental health, accessibility, and user trust.
As a multidisciplinary team, we each have personal experiences with emotional design, AI, and human-centered interaction. We saw the opportunity to create something meaningful by blending our skills in product strategy, motion design, and machine learning.
We were inspired by emotionally aware systems in speculative fiction, poetic human-computer interactions in films like Her, and cultural thinkers like Lin Huiyin who combined humanism with structure. These references shaped our pursuit of gentle, empathetic, and culturally conscious technology.
Our target users are emotionally independent individuals who seek meaningful reflection, emotional clarity, or quiet companionship. Livia is designed for people navigating loneliness, stress, or simply wishing to better understand their inner lives.
Unlike typical chatbots or journaling apps, Livia combines memory systems, proactive emotional engagement, and AR embodiment. She not only listens, but remembers—offering personalized emotional continuity. Her presence feels alive, not transactional.
We chose the name Livia because it feels warm, approachable, and quietly intelligent. It evokes life (vita in Latin), and hints at living memory, emotional presence, and quiet strength.
We used Figma and Notion for wireframing and interaction flow, After Effects and Blender for motion and spatial concept design, and Unity/ARKit for prototyping AR interactions. We also leveraged Chatgpt tools and custom AI memory frameworks for backend logic.
The emotional memory system. Livia remembers your past interactions—not just data points, but feelings, patterns, and context. This transforms her from a tool into a companion.
Yes, our core team includes a motion/xr designer, a product designer, and a product-focused engineer. Together, we blended creative, UX, and technical perspectives. We also consulted with mental health professionals during early research phases.
Technology is the enabler of empathy here. From NLP and emotion recognition to AR spatial mapping and wearable integration, technology helps Livia feel emotionally aware and physically present in users’ lives.
Yes. We conducted surveys, interviews, and usability studies with participants of different ages and emotional needs. This helped us understand how users engage with digital companions, what feels supportive, and where typical systems fall short.
The hardest part was designing emotional nuance—ensuring that Livia felt supportive without being intrusive. Technically, we faced challenges with memory continuity, multi-device syncing, and ensuring privacy. Balancing advanced features with an intuitive user experience required continuous iteration.
We believe that emotional design deserves more visibility, and that technology can serve mental well-being in elegant, culturally sensitive ways. Submitting to A' Design Award was a way to share that mission with a global audience and learn from the design community.
We learned to slow down and listen—not just to user needs, but to emotional signals. This project deepened our understanding of ethical AI, memory systems, and emotional UX. We also grew as collaborators, learning how to design from empathy, not ego.
Livia is more than an app—she’s a design statement about what we want AI to be: present, respectful, emotionally literate. We hope Livia sets a precedent for future products that prioritize the inner lives of users as much as their external tasks.