Slove

The hustling life makes a couple getting harder to make time for themself. Especially for whom have children are even more difficult for arranging schedule for just only two of them. Lack of conversation causes couples having more conflict and misunderstanding.

Slove is a concept of application that allows couple having a joyful and fast way to communicate their partner. No matter how busy you are, just need one hand and few steps you are able to express your feeling and attention to your partner. Additionally, the function of scrapbook can automatically categorize user’s picture as stories and the romance reminder notifies any special days for couples.

Cooperated with Paul, Aisling (Research part)
User interface & interaction Design (Individual)

Discover

In the beginning of project, Our team interviewed about 9 couples with a questionnaire from basic question to more personal ones. We wanted to know how interviewees maintain their relationship and what were good and bad moments them have. We focused on couples who have a long-term relationship more than 5 years with age range from 28 to 41. What we found was that most of them admited having a constant and quality of conversation is an essential need for healthy relationship.

Love and The Brain

Many theories indicated that being love-struck releases high levels of dopamine, a chemical that gets the reward system going. Dopamine activates the reward circuit, helping to make love a pleasurable experience similar to the euphoria associated with use of alcohol.
Some long-married couples found the same intensity of activity in dopamine-rich areas of the brains as found in the brains of couples who were newly in love.

Define

The persona was derived from previous research - Brian works in a restaurant with long working hour therefore he does not have time to send or reply message to his girlfriend. When he go home that his girlfriend usually has fallen asleep, lack of communication to each other causes them a bit of conflict.

Storyborad

Ideate

'A quality conversation' had been metioned many time during the period of research. And the time couples spend on texting each other way more than talking in person. How can we make texting more meaningful and joyful. Ran through the affinity board I realize that to build up a good conversation in relationship the sense of sharing and caring is crucial. Existing applications provided a handy way of communication but lack of warmth of feeling. Therefore I aimed to create an application that user can express their feeling interactively.

Prototype and Usability testing

I drafted quickly when the first idea came out and then tested its usability and notion. After that based on user feedback I re-scrutinize my concept where was unambiguous and adjusted some user interface.