Role
Team
Rohina Gandhi
Ani Nguyen Le
Kaitlin Chow
Timeline
3 Days
NYC
Skills
Visual Design
Interaction Design
Prototyping
Tools
Figma
Protopie
Despite all the technology we have, there are a million things competing for our time. Young adults love their parents, but sometimes don’t have the bandwidth to call or FaceTime very often.
USER INTERVIEWS
Parents mainly want to know if they are okay, but young adult’s busy lives make it hard to stay in touch
We conducted 10+ user interviews with parents and young adults to learn what both sides needed to feel connected with one another.
PRESENTING OUR DESIGNS
Apple Care Packages
Keep your loved ones updated in just one tap. With one tap, send a small grid of tiles filled with the most recent updates about your life.
DESIGN DECISIONS
Dynamic widgets based on your activity
When you open the iMessage app, the six widgets in your care package will reflect your most recent activities & inputs. It will draw relevant information from the Apple ecosystem like your Photos app (to show you're eating well), Apple Watch + Health (to show you're working out, sleeping well, + staying healthy), Calendar (flights, availability), and many more.
DESIGN DECISIONS
Effortlessly
easy to scan
Keeping in mind that young adults wanted a quick way to send these updates to parents and parents may not always be the most tech-savvy, we designed the curation of the tiles to be very easy to navigate, and the final care package super visually glanceable for parents.
DESIGN DECISIONS
Tap on widgets to toggle
and customize
You could do this for location (to provide your parents with your live location or just you city), let them know about how busy you've been recently (light, manageable, vs. heavy workload), and to show them how you've been feeling lately through the 'mood' tile.
PRESENTING OUR DESIGNS
Behind the scenes of an NYC Design Competition presenting to top designers
The overall feedback from the audience was very positive and they loved the quality and craft of our work as well as the prototypes. In the future, we could work on building a story around our solution and tweaking our solution to something that would feel more intentional and thoughtful to the parents.