A tablet app created to be interactive and educational to learn about space
Space Xplore helps create an engaging learning experience by featuring a personalized profile, leveling up with friends, challenging quizzes, images, and videos.
Education is fundamental to development and growth, but sometimes learning can be boring and hard to absorb the essence. Adobe Creative Jam challenged the UX Designers to design a tablet app that helps kids, who are between the age of 11-13 to learn more about space exploration by teaching about a single or multiple NASA JPL missions.
Two UX designers teamed up to participate in the challenge with no involvement from any mentors.
Design a third-party (not NASA JPL branded) Andriod tablet or Apple Ipad app that provides an engaging way for kids to learn and share space stories, facts, and topics.
Information Architecture
UX Design
Adobe Challenge Project
iPad App
7 days
Adobe XD
Alice Sung, Makayla Chen
Information Architecture
UX Design
Adobe Challenge Project
iPad App
9 days
Adobe XD
Alice Sung
Makayla Chen
Kids have shorter attention spans than adults, and the way to keep their attention is to find a common interest.
Eyes target images first before the text.
Realistic images make the visual more appealing.
Interactive learning keeps kids engaged and focused longer
Kids like to share their activities with friends so they can follow along on the same activities.
Hard to recall what kids just learned a few moments ago
Although the real-life image method did attract attention from kids visually, it’s still easy to forget what they just learned, so we were trying to figure out how might we make the app experience memorable?
Ideations for the HMW question
Use comparison data to make the learning easier to memorize.
Use quiz feature to enhance the memory of what kids have learned.
Continue learning without interruption by searching from other 3rd party platforms.
Win rewards from the quizzes to personalize their profile as a milestone announcement.
Users between 11-13.
Users who own tablet devices.
Hard to stay engaged in the content with lots of text to read
Learn and remember the content for classes with engaging experience.
Sketching on both ends creates a better communication
When the user flow was completed, we moved on to the sketch phase. Since everyone has different thoughts and ideas, a compromise needs to be established first. Both of us sketched what we had in our minds, then we voted on the sketches that would work the best.
Guerrilla Usability Testing on low fidelity mockups
During the testing, I found out my niece tapped on the primary button to start which was our intention, But I saw there was a moment of friction when she tapped on the Future of Mars mission, and that was because the screen didn’t have images above the buttons. By having this in mind, we have iterated the wireframe to improve the user experience.
Communication is significant in a team on a short deadline
Communication drives the process flawlessly. Because both of us listened and respected every opinion, it was easy to progress to the next step. When there was a disagreement, we provided the documentation to back up the rationale.
Scrolling could stop kids from reading
I found out that scrolling could stop users from reading. Scrolling means more to read which in turn causes to lose patience and skip the text.
Interaction during reading increases engagement
The quiz feature help kids recall what they just learned, but adding more interaction while reading could help increase higher engagement and enhance memory.
Space rocket interface simulator
Space Xplore empowers kids to learn about Solar System by piloting the space rocket to each planet as a commander.
Real-life images don’t just arouse but also satisfy curiosity
Space is mysterious to kids since all the planets in space are too far to see from Earth by eyes. Space Xplore includes authentic images to satisfy users’ curiosity.
Competitive strategy is also a motivation for learning
Space Xplore implements social psychology method to increase engagement. When kids see their friends accomplished some challenges, they will try to do the challenge to follow up.
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Our team wasn't on the top 10 winners list, but we were on the top 100 teams list. With high commitment and effort, we got ourselves a free six months subscription to Adobe Suites.
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User Journey
User Interviews
User Stories
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