SHOWIE

UX/UI


Type

MA Project Design for Play

 
_Topic

Play & Playfulness

 
_Directors

Camilo Rodríguez, Linea Oxholm & Jorge Villar


It is a mobile application that helps people to relax their thoughts and enjoy their shower experiences. Through 3 different types of stories: meditative, imaginative and dilemma, we target different aspects of peoples shower thoughts, and a set of playful sponges that boost the experience.

Showie enhances the natural break that is taking a shower. A break that a lot of people need in times where we get more and more busy and have less time for breaks.

When your day looks stressful, go to the bathroom and just take a shower.

Showie takes a friendly and approachable aesthetic way of work around the taboo of mental health. We have used characters as storytelling tools to engage people and easily connect with their emotions. Using the 'tell us your mood function', users can find the perfect sound for take a shower based on their actual mood.

Boost your creativity, the shower as a sensorial experience.

Showie is based on shower thoughts, which refers to all the thinking that occurs during the time that we take showers. We understood that the shower is a place with sensorial restricctions in which creativity are boost and let people mix outer and real situations with inner and fictional thinking. At the end of the research we divided the shower thoughts in 3 approahes: Rational, Meditative, Irrational.

_Inner World

Real situations that people experienced in their daily life. Usually related with experiences, feelings, behaviours, people and objects that surrounds a main character.

_Outer World

Real situations mixed with fiction. They can be rational and based on a real situation that the character experienced or irrational and related with unreal experiences.



_Rational

Realistic fiction, Centered around feeling, Deals with senses and sense of self & Makes you be present in the moment.

_Meditative

Mindfulness and wellbeing, Centered around feeling, Deals with senses and sense of self & Makes you present in the moment.

_Irrational

Fairytale/fantasy traits, Centered around actions, Deals with imagination and humor, Makes you reflect over moral.