Color Diary
It is a study on color, using design research tools to adjust moods.
Today, many people are troubled with emotions. Inspired by previous research achievements, we have developed this project intending to solve this problem by recording people's changing feelings in colors.
As a result of collective efforts, the project also explores the role of colors. As we worked on it, we managed to create, aided by various design tools, a more convenient and color-related method to keep a diary.
Client
School Project
Team
Wenjing Zhang, Lu Wei,
Menghan Zhang, Hongda Xu
Duration
Role
Team Lead
Research
UX Design
3 Months
Inspiration
Why do I focus on emotion problems?
2018 Looking Further with Ford Trend Report
Recording is an effective solution to emotion problems.
In the study, Correcting behaviors and policing emotions: how behavioral infractions become feeling-rule violations, Barrett's (2016) argues that when changes occur in one’s emotions, he or she needs to know the causes in order to solve specific emotional problems appropriately.
Research
1
Questionnaire
150 valid questionnaires
2
Interview
6 interviewees
3
Analysis
Function & trending analysis
4
Experiment
A day in life
1
Questionnaire
150 valid questionnaires
2
Interview
6 interviewees
Why people don't like to make a record or keep a diary ?
3
Analysis for competitive products
Function analysis
New trendings of journal apps
1st experiment: diary with color, picture, and text.
2nd experiment: diary with labels.
Preparation
Examples
Strength: Labels can provide ideas for users who don’t know what to record, thus saving
much time.
Findings
Weakness: These traditional labels are in a lack of logicality, thus making users confused.
4
Experiment
A day in life
Preparation
Examples
colored text
text + color + image
colored text + image
text + color
Strength: Color can be used as labels of moods and can be helpful to form visualized
reports.
Findings
Weakness: Color has limited information-carrying capacity and cannot convey much
information without text.
Function
1
Record
2
Alarm
3
Report
4
Color
5
Diaries
Wireframes
