Design Process

Environmental Research

The Korean people's experience of depression is 13.2%, the highest among the major developed countries such as the US, Germany and Japan. It also ranked first in the suicide rate among OECD member contries, confirming the urgency of mental health care. The reflects self-portraits of contemporary people exhausted by performanceism and excesses. We identified the necessity of speculation and meditation as one of the activities that stop the time of the weary modern people here.

Diary writing was the first task to be released from the chain of emotional restraint, confirming the need to write emotional diaries with language as a tool. It also helped to heal insomnia, and 33% of the modern people are aware that they are using diaries in the Internet virtual space.

Application of healing and growth

We derived the following keywords during the identification process.

And we have positioned as belows. Sea writing is different from existing diary and recorded apps. While existing recording applications can accumulate and re-check the records, we thought the purpose of recording on this app is just emptying. And for the purpose of writing itself, the user had time to meditate, hoping to get a sense of security and rest. We recorded it more and provided it as a sort of reward as the structure that enriches the ecosystem of the sea with the original own.

We conducted a competitive research to provide a more impressive interaction for a new, more traditional diary and recording application.

A consistent UI makes it easy for users to access key tasks.
It relieves the burden of pre-recording by providing the proverb of writing.
As you write a diary, increasing experience points and items will give you a goal and help you increase your return rate with a incentives.

Throught the analysis of competitors, we set up the above objectives and set differentiation from the sea writing application.

Gamification

Writing in a game format that interacts with the user and creates an experience with increasing rewards.

CHALLENGES
Submits diarys, forms ecosystems,
and increases user participation.

AWARDS
Provide rewards with item acquisition
through experience.

ACTIVITY
Make your own ecosystem.
It offers another pleasure to share.

Empathy Evaluation & Persona

The ability to earn empathy points and the hightest empathy is derived from the ability to perceive.

User flow

Wireframe Sketch

Prototype

1.0 Main Page
- Trible button (for music selection)
- Sharing, Item box, Writing Floating button
- The main background is represented by the sea
- Place a sentence in the center of the top

2.0 Writing Page
There is no storage according to the service concept "forgetting" but can be stored in the treasure box with the + button

3.0 Emotional Diary Page
We quote the classification of emotion in the Seven Elements of Confucianism. As they say, we classified our feelings into Joy, Anger, Sadness, Pleasure, Like/Lovers, Hate and Desire/Motivation.

4.0 Item Selection Page
The more activities you have in the app, the more itemps you can add to the main screen.

5.0 Treasure Chest Page
You can save your diary that want to keep for personal.(up to 10)

6.0 Music Selection Page
When the button on upper is pressed, the medidation music selection area are folded on On and Off button.

UI Design

Create a rich ecosystem of your own that becomes more vivid as you write