PuriCub
PuriCub is an air-purifying STEAM educational course.
Honorable mention, 2022 European Product Design Award.
Project Overview 🔍
Completing science education with a little extra step.
Our team aims to influence people's mindsets by uncovering the human practice of taking air for granted while simultaneously turning a blind eye to the current situation of air pollution. By this project we would like to promote mindfulness, enhance local air quality, and eventually achieve ecological equilibrium through education.
Challenge
To purify air and raise air pollution awareness through education.
My Role
Digital product design
Product Management
Art Direction
Identity
Discover
Gaining insight & empathy
Our primary research mainly focuses on different possible users. Fieldworks and questionnaires have been conducted to understand users’ habits and needs, while Persona and User Journeys have been created to emphasize users and discover their needs and painpoints.
Questionaire
A questionnaire was conducted to better understand how air pollution is perceived to faster issue hypothesis and leading to design considerations.
Persona & user journey map
At this stage, we considered users to be the general public. Therefore, we set up a few personas and their journey navigating various scenarios.
Ideate
Seeking solutions
Drawing from our primary and secondary research, we found out that the Education Bureau and the current science curriculum seems insufficient in providing knowledge and awareness to air pollution. Therefore we decided to pursue a design direction focused on education and STEAM learning.
Finalized flow
We decided to go with a face-to-face, in-person learning mode instead of e-learning.
Wireframes
As an optimized design, we want to incorporate a Bluetooth transmitter into the structure of our air purifier to allow students to connect to and operate their air purifier a year after launch.
Final Designs
Simplifying complexity
SciOPS design system aims to make complex information approachable and beautiful. This is achieved through the use of more humanistic elements, such as a serifed typeface and organic animated graphics that infuse the site with life and personality.
System diagram - how we make it work
The purifiers
Students create their air purifier that fits their needs. It comes with 3 basic shapes. The air purifiers are composed by sustainable and recyclable materials.
Mobile Steam Lab
A mobile STEAM lab aimed to encourage students to learn in an immersive environment rather than in conventional classrooms, and to encourage students to think and understand about the issue of air pollution through observation, hypothesis, and experimentation.
Mobile Steam Lab
Introduce our mission
Explain the phenemonon & give our solution
Call to action, collaboration & partnership
Testimonial & sharing
Out of Home Ad
Final Design - Mobile app
Beyond the course
Home Dashboard
A insights dashboard that gives feedback to users based on their usage and random picked resources to refresh the users collection.
Card anatomy
The information filled card is the most basic component of the design. It represents every resource saved.
What's Next
Exhibitions and Awards
Honorable mention
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
01 August - 09 December 2022
June - July 17 2022
05 Jan - 31 Mar 2023
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