Alstro App
and Website
Role
UI and UX Design
Target Audience
2-5y.o. children in HK
Year
Nov 2022 to Dec 2022
Location
Hong Kong, China
Alstro is an app and responsive website focused on teaching empathy. Teachers and parents in Hong Kong need a platform to engage children to learn an abstract concept. Through gaming, Alstro targets children ages between 2 to 5, learning different ways to understand the character’s needs.
Project Goal
PROBLEM: Parents and Teachers around Hong Kong believe it is needed to teach children empathy as soon as possible, however they believe it is difficult to teach them an abstract topic and hard to engage them to learn.
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GOAL: Design an app that will easily teach children ages between 2 to 5 the topic of empathy and engage them through storytelling.
Research Study Details
User Persona
Initial Design Concepts
Crazy Eights
Low Fidelity Prototype (Link here)
User Testing Results
Usability Study
An unmoderated usability study was conducted on 5 participants, located in Hong Kong SAR, China, remote, duration was around 30-60 minutes. Changes were made according to the feedback below.
Game Difficulty
People wish games such as Game 1 is easy enough for children to play.
Game Amount
People think 6 games is not enough for a child to play.
Visual Design
People believed the design needs to be bright enough to capture children’s attention.
What I Learned/ Next Steps
What I learned:
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I learned that this was a challenging project to finish, due to involving both ux (practicality) and graphic design (creativity), I feel this is a useful app fulfilling teachers/ parents’ needs.
Next Steps
1. Conduct research on how successful the app is in teaching children empathy.
2. Refine the visual design such as the character/ color selection to capture children’s attention more.
3. Research on more empathy related games children could play.
Responsive Website
