Sandoo
Utilizing AI technology, Sandoo optimizes the results from meditation and improves users’ overall health and social relationship. It allows users to get the most carefree and interactive meditation experience and be personally on the scenes.
Client
Individual Project
Year
Oct - Dec 2022
Service
UI/UX Design; IoT
How Can We help young working adults to reduce the sequelas from over-stressed, maintain a sustainable stress level, and form a healthy relaxation habit?
SECONDARY BACKGROUND RESEARCH
How Stress Is Formed
Groups of People
Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X experience mroe stress than other age groups
Compared to men in each age group, women experience 2X more stress
Among all the other jobs, social and healthcare workers such as firefighters and doctors are having more stress
Impacts of Excess Stress
It has been proven that excess amoung of stress can negatively affect behavior, increased tension in bodies, cause people to “snap” out of anger, caused unexpected mood swings.
PRIMARY USER RESEARCH
Based on the research, a combination of physical device and an app is considered more efficient and effective for reliefing and reducing stress. To investigate the preference and habits, I conducted unstructured interview with 5 target users.
MARKET RESEARCH & SECONDARY USER RESEARCH
Meditation can reduce stress, improve psychological well-being, and also lengthen your life span. So I researched on and analyzed traditional meditation method, cutomer products, and installation art.
Research Insights
DESIGN GOALS
From the research and analysis, 4 design goals are considered to meet the goals of the target users. The 4 themes are portability and convenience, concentration, motivation, and having a physical product accompanied with an app.
Ideation
First-round Ideation
Second-round Ideation
After evaluating the first-round ideation, I realized that some of the ideas are either contraditcting the goals or not influenctial and immersive enough for users to get the full eperience. For example, having the option to choose scenes on watches is conterproductive in terms of the use of digital devices.
FINAL DESIGN
6-axis Motion Tracking device helps detect the movement of the rack; hence give responses to the app
Sound page
AI generated music based on the selections of sound components made by the users
Save the music generated for future use
Users can add or delete sound components when listening to the music
Profile page
Users will be able to see their progress (number of scenes created, music created, and the total meditation time)
No graphs to avoid giving stress to users
Help & support offers maintenance for each component of the sandbox
Being able to go back to see and edit scenes created before
