We have created a community platform focusing on anonymity and story-sharing. Serenify provides a safe space for users to discuss mental health concerns and ways to support each other. The platform is designed with text-based user interfaces and fun interactions, promote sharing through daily prompts.
Young Leaders Program is a part of the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce (link), which is a non-profit organization that voices the Chinese businesses in the local area. YLP is described as "one-of-a-kind, professional development program designed to help college students to discover their true passion."
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There are no username and profile pictures displayed on the platform. Users may focus on the content rather than their online identities.
The overall design style is inspired by ASCII Art Archive, which heavily rely on text-styled visuals rather than colored graphics.
We explore interactions that are both browser friendly and fun, such as pet the cat to move forward.
The first page the users are going to see is a introduction to the platform, showing the features and give a few seconds for them to get familiar with the style. They could log in or sign up by tapping the button at the top right corner. We've decided to go with simple UI and big text so that users can focus on one thing at a time.
The page on the right is the main feed / prompt with a calendar at the top, giving the option to look back at previous prompts and posts. This will be the main place for users to read others ideas and join the discussion with their owns. We will create concise and thoughtful prompts for each day.
The input box for post and comment is text-fit, which means the font size changes based on the number of words entered. The less they speak, the louder their voices will be. It is connected with an ASCII art generator and a file input, enabling the user to express themselves in various ways.
