Project Summary
Magic Mirror is an interactive meditation aid offering professional training and engagement.
Using an EEG device, it visualizes users' mental states, providing real-time feedback and advice to enhance focus.
The system also supports customization and fosters a community for both fun interactions and meditation enhancement.
My Role
User Research, Business Model Analysis, Business Model Canvas, UI/UX Design
Team
Wes Zhang
Timeline
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Magic Mirror
Interaction Design | Installation Design | Product Design | App Design | User Experience Design
Beginners typically start with focus attention meditation for easier entry into meditation. It involves maintaining an anchor point, but many find consistent focus challenging, affecting training effectiveness.
What these users are looking for is a training method that helps visualize concentration, anchor point, and comprehends their attention state.
How might we design a product to help beginners in meditation easily find and maintain focus on their anchor point? With simple actions, real-time feedback, and interactions, assist beginning meditators in visualizing their anchor point and taking control over their concentration.
Design Challenge
Research Methods
Secondary Research
I conducted secondary research to understand the meditation mechanics, the function of meditation, the types of meditation, how people usually meditate, and what’s suitable for beginners.
Insight
Interviews
I then conducted 5 interviews with beginning meditators to discover the challenges for beginning mediators that restrain and distract them from effective mediation.
Meditation, targeting physical and mental health benefits, faces challenges for beginners, particularly in mind control and visualization exercises, affecting efficiency and stability if users struggle to reach the desired state.
Conceptualization
We developed design metrics and design strategy to help us push forward our ideation.
Design Metrics
Design Strategy
How does the system work?
Function 1: For Meditation Training
The product offers meditation training, enabling users to visualize and assess their mental state.
Function 2: Multi-interaction
Users can personalize the installation with official products and design patterns, sharing with the community or joining competitions for limited editions.
Gamification
Adding elements from games to non-game products or services to make the meditation experiences fun, encourage users to return, and help them form a habit.
Ideation
Concept Sketch
To present the integration between technology adoption and our design concept.
Why UGC?
The employment of UGC here is to boost retention, enhance user interactions like sharing and meditating, and increase conversions throughout the user journey.
It helps establish brand loyalty and grows the community.
Act as a trust signal.
Increase conversions and influence purchasing decisions.
Adaptable and flexible.
More cost-effective, minimizing development cost and effort.
Proposed Ecosystem
Our community platform offers user-designed patterns, contests, and tutorials. Users earn rewards redeemable in the store, enhancing their meditation experience and encouraging continuous practice through a sense of accomplishment and playfulness.
