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O'friends

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O'friends, symbolizing old friends, is designed to bolster lasting friendships among young adults. Amidst bustling lives and vast distances, it pioneers pathways for users to recollect old moments, communicate emotions, and forge new memories. The app artfully bridges diverse life rhythms, with features highlighting friends based on time zones and availability. It also enables rich interaction: voice messages, photo shares, and a shared virtual memory haven. It encourages rekindling past bonds with ice-breaking prompts, ensuring friendships thrive in today's fast-paced world.

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Unique Properties

O'friends is a mobile application that supports young adults in maintaining long-lasting friendships. Recognizing the challenges that young adults always connect from long distance, O'friends aims to provide a solution to foster and nurture meaningful relationships.

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Mobile Application, Old Friends, Long-lasting Friendships, Connection, Emotional Well-being

Production Technology

Built with React Native, O'friends ensures cross-platform compatibility and a user-centric design. Cloud-based solutions enable scalable data storage, while robust security measures protect user privacy. The app's special friend list panel, displaying friends based on time zones and locations, enhances availability tracking. O'friends offers voice messages, photo sharing, prompts of activities,and a virtual home for shared memories.

Design Challenge

The greatest challenge in creating 'O'friends' was developing a solution to alter the state of isolation or solitude that people often find themselves in, especially during times like the pandemic. Prior to 'O'friends,' I had experimented with various approaches, but the most difficult part was always encouraging users to take that first step to reach out to others or engage with the world around them. To address this, I focused on designing an extremely smooth and attractive landing experience, coupled with thoughtful planning of users' social sharing boundaries. It was crucial to create a sense of belonging and connection within groups, making users feel like they are part of a community. This involved not just aesthetic design choices but also deep consideration of user psychology and social dynamics. The challenge was to balance functionality with emotional appeal, ensuring that users felt comfortable and motivated to initiate and maintain connections through the app.

Project Duration

The project started in June 2021 and finished in Nov 2022 New York, and was exhibited in New York.

Operation Flow

O'friends focuses on activities to foster interaction. Users update their status daily, expressing feelings or sharing small activities. The app simplifies engagement by offering activity options instead of long posts. Users discover similarities, important events, and join activities with friends. In the "Room," users communicate in real-time, share memories, and plan activities. The app provides methods and activities for users to interact and showcase their personalities.

Research

Research Objectives: design an app for meaningful connections. Methodology: User research, wireframing, prototyping. Methods: Storyboarding, field and market research, interviews, user personas. Participants: 12 participants from various locations, including China, South Korea, the US, and India. Results: Participants desired reconnection with old friends. Insights: Importance of maintaining old friendships Impacts: Business opportunities for meaningful connection tools, societal importance of nurturing friendships.

Inspiration

During my years in New York, I witnessed the severity of the pandemic and the resulting loneliness experienced by people. They are actively trying to overcome this emerging health issue, especially among young individuals. Instead of solely seeking new friendships, I believe it is crucial for people to consider rebuilding old connections. Inspired by this, I envisioned creating a platform where individuals can reconnect with their past relationships.

Project Overview

O'friends Social App has been a Bronze winner in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design award category in the year 2023 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. 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.

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Yichen Wang was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2024, a testament to excellence of their work O'friends Social App.

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