Luyuan (Dominic) Wang
For this project, I focus on the interactive application of sleep aid. As people age and undergo stress from life, they experience varying degrees of sleep problems. The development of mobile internet platforms has also stretched out fragmented time, eating away at people's sleep, especially in the younger generation. As I am also someone who has issues in this area, I wanted to make a design for this group that I would use.
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Luyuan (Dominic) Wang, CICADA Sleep App
To calm the restless body and improve sleep quality, just like the name of this app - CICADA. The name is to echo the three characteristics of this app. Firstly, the cicada represents Zen, these two words are homophones in Chinese, indicating that users can calm down and reduce stress; Secondly, the sound of cicadas echoes the white noise function, indicating the sound from nature; Thirdly, it echoes Unplugging feature that lets users be a cicada out of the complicated world.
Luyuan (Dominic) Wang, CICADA Sleep App - Home
Use gray-toned black as the main color to echo the use environment of this app at night. At the same time, green is used as an auxiliary color. Green is a color with a lighter visual weight, which is less stimulating to the human brain and can help people relax their emotions. All icons have large rounded corners, which will bring a sense of intimacy to the user visually and will not appear rigid.
The homepage covers almost all of the app's functions, at the same time, you can view the sleep plan set by the user and the number of days of use, etc. The main functions of the app are located below, including "Sleep," "Sleep Data," "Sleep Aid Music," and "My."
Luyuan (Dominic) Wang, CICADA Sleep App - Sleep
The sleep function includes two categories - nap and sleep, which is convenient for users to choose a sleep time that is more suitable for them under different periods, environments, and physical conditions. For example, in the nap category, four different duration nap options are set for users to let them select faster. Compared to fancy pages, I think the most basic functionality is often the most important and easily overlooked. The design of the alarm clock has also achieved the ultimate simplification.
Luyuan (Dominic) Wang, CICADA Sleep App - Unplugging & Replugging
This is probably one of my favourite features of this app, we have been getting all kinds of information, even when we are sleeping, the notifications, calls, messages, and emails of the various apps on our phones are flooding our life all the time. Our brain is always in a state of tension. Our need is to isolate these reminders and information, and truly be a free and undisturbed cicada. Users can unplug all the reminders they need to turn off when they go to sleep, and then replug them back on the next day with the touch of a button.
Luyuan (Dominic) Wang, CICADA Sleep App - Other Functions
The overall app is not complicated, it is the most basic but important function. For example, in the My Sleep function, you can check the sleep data and time of different dates, and replay the sleep-talking recordings which recorded on that day. Or in the Play Mode, the wake-up time set by the alarm clock is marked on the top, and the double-ring animation in the center of the screen is inspired by the swinging rings used by the hypnotists and vinyl turntable. All designs are concerned with the most important user experience of using this app - sleep aid.
