UX Research
UI Design A
UI Design B
01

Overview

Benesse is a famous brand in Taiwan and Japan, which develop children's learning material and products.
In 2019, Benesse decided to design an app aim for pregnant mothers, which can not only help them to overcome difficulties during the hardest time, but also accompany them to welcome the newborns.
The existing products in Taiwan are incapable of satisfying all the mothers because of the lack of practical functions and useful information. To discover the best solutions, we decided to develop two kinds of products with different layout and visual systems to undertake A/B testing.

App Design
UX Research
Illustrator
Lead UI Designer
Mar 2019 — Now
02

Project Goal

" What kind of product can make mothers thoroughly enjoy having a baby? "

Having a baby is a bitter-sweet experience for all mothers in Taiwan. Commonly, mothers don't have much time taking care of complicated situations while having a baby. In hence, BabyMine aim at discovering needs for mothers and accompany them thoughtfully at every moment while being pregnant.

Provide Practical Function

Develop practical functions and provide useful information for users

Create A Joyful Scenario

Create a visually relaxing products for users which can ease their anxious mood

Generate A/B Testing

Create two different styles of products for A/B testing to find out best solution

03

User Research For A / B Testing

STEP 00

Research Process

STEP 01

Discover Needs

" What is an excellent app for a pregnant mother? "

We collect all of the thoughts of this question to dig into mothers' anticipations.

STEP 02

Interview & Persona

To find out which kind of product is suitable for mothers, we have developed two concepts of this app to produce A / B testing, which represent two kinds of users.

STEP 03

Define Product Characteristic

After defining two types of users, we can determine the characteristics of two kinds of products.
We use keywords to emphasize the characteristics, which can help designers to concentrate on the overall functions and design system.

STEP 04

Solutions

Base on the results above, we can create a product with two different functions, content, and design systems. It can help us develop two different kinds of products for A / B testing.

Type A

UX

Sharing Brings Happiness

Update baby’s daily situation and let users share and record their feelings

UX

Online Community

Provide useful articles and let users interact with both friends and specialists

UI

Feeling Of Accompany

The app should act like users' friend which make them feel released and accompany

Type B

UX

Mission-Orientation

Make every action act as a mission to help users feel satisfied

UX

Customize Information

Provide brief and to the point information, and recommend favorable ones for users

UI

Feeling of Anticipation

The app is like a secretary which help and remind users to achieve their daily goal

04-A

UI Guideline

The visual system of Style A utilize pinky colors to bring out its characteristic, and the illustration of the baby is painted by watercolor. We hope all the mothers can feel relaxed and released when using the BabyMine app.

05-A

Wireframe

Apart from the baby's detail information, Type A mothers can obtain essential news by interacting with other mothers. Due to their personalities --- sociable and thoughtful, they need to keep sharing memories with friends and families. Overall, we hope this APP can act as a sincere friend for Type A mothers.

05-A

UI Design

Landing Page & Diary Tools

Mothers can see the short words that babies say to them. It can motivate users to keep browsing this APP daily and make sure if they miss something important.
The second section mainly provides stories about other mothers, which look more like the layout of social media.

Diary Content

Mothers can also review the history of diary content. The research result shows that Type A mothers are interested in browsing their memories frequently. So we create a call-to-action button to make them more comfortable to write down every feeling without any limitation.

04-B

UI Guideline

Due to the personalities that Type B mothers have ( cautious, rational), we used ''baby blue'' as the primary color.
We hope whenever mothers are confused about situations they have encountered, and this app can act like a trustful secretary, which specifically created for them.

05-B

Wireframe

The overall layout of Type B mainly provides news and information. Compare to type A, which can interact with friends on the internet, and Type B mothers can be satisfied by achieving several daily goals. So we create a mission list page to remind them to keep up with schedules day by day.

05-A

UI Design

Character Introduction

We set a Benesse character as a secretary to users, who can tell them to complete different kinds of daily missions.

Landing Page

All of the baby's health situation can be seen on this page. We create a scenario that mothers can review how babies act in their uterus and know necessary information as well.

Mission List

Based on personalities that Type B mothers have, we generate an individual to-do list for them. It includes helpful suggestions and useful news, which can help mothers be aware of their situations, and fulfill a sense of achievement when they are using the product.