Wellpaper

Mobile Application for Oneplus USA

WellPaper is a mobile app that displays users' screen time and smartphone usage through a creative and dynamic wallpaper. The existing screen time monitoring tools are bland and uninspiring to the user, giving them little reason to return or use the information. WellPaper allows users to visualize and better understand their day-to-day smartphone habits in an aesthetic way right on the home screen. From the data-heavy Composition with a range of tiles scaling based on use, the soft colors of Radial or the dark space-based Cosmos design. Liven up your home screen with digital welling.

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Unique Properties

WellPaper is a mobile app that display's users' screen time and smartphone usage through five creative and dynamic wallpapers. The existing screen time monitoring tools are bland and uninspiring to the user, or deeply hidden in the settings, giving users little reason to return to use the information. WellPaper organizes all installed apps into six categories and tracks their screen times, allowing users to visualize and better understand their day-to-day smartphone habits in an aesthetic way right on the home screen. Users can choose from 5 distinctive wallpaper designs: Composition - Inspired by Piet Mondrian's "Composition No. II," this data-heavy design consists of a range of tiles that constantly scale based on app usage. Glow - A cyberpunk design with six neon rings that get thicker when you are approaching the daily screen time target. Radial - A soft and smooth color gradient on a white canvas, for those who appreciate a minimal design style. Cosmos - A dark-themed solar system design, this wallpaper features 6 planets that constantly scale based on the screen time of the 6 categories. Botanical garden - Inspired by Alex Katz's painting "Tulips 4," comes with a relaxing flower design that lets users' digital wellbeing blossom. Liven up your home screen whilst improving your digital wellbeing with WellPaper.

Tags

Digital Wellbeing, Wallpaper, Android, Customization, Mobile Application

Production Technology

After the user research and competitive analysis, the design team actively sought inspiration from different channels to satisfy the different tastes of Android users. From analyzing popular wallpaper apps on the Play Store, to looking into the trending movies and games, then to visiting museums in the New York City including MoMA and the MET, we had concluded eight distinctive directions. We sent the design concepts to OnePlus tester community and internal employees to get feedback, and eventually picked three concepts, Composition, Glow, and Radial to develop in the first season, Cosmos and Botanical Garden for the second season. At the same time, we were designing the mobile app. Serving as a supportive role, the app allows users to explore different wallpapers, understand their interactions, view a comprehensive list of apps' screen time, or even set their daily screen time targets. To have advantages in feature comprehensiveness, wallpaper visual design, and user customization compared to competitors, we organized several usability testing sessions to validate the design and uploaded the app to the Play Store for additional user feedback and bug reports. At a late stage, we added highly requested features including reassigning an app's category and assigning side-loaded apps to categories and continued to iterate the visual design to match the latest Material Design Guidelines.

Design Challenge

The development team used Android Canvas to develop the wallpapers but it has limits in creating the shadow and blur effects. While the developers used the radial color with a large radius to simulate the blur effect, designers exported multiple sets of assets to represent different stages of the dynamic wallpaper. The team was able to realize 85% of the original wallpaper design through this collaboration.

Project Duration

The project started in May 2021 and finished in September 2021 in New York City, USA. Our global team is based across Shenzhen, Taipei, Hydrabad, London, and New York. During this time we did not meet in person at all and conducted everything virtually.

Operation Flow

Users start with an onboarding process that introduces the core features, terms and conditions, and asks for access to app usage data. Upon granting access, users proceed to the home screen to see all the five wallpaper designs. Users can select a wallpaper to view an introduction of its design and interaction, then set it as the system wallpaper. Back to the home screen, users can swipe left to see the Screen Time tab, which contains the daily screen time target and all six app categories. The default daily screen time target is set to 3.5 hours based on statistics and the users can change it anytime. The list of app categories below indicates the relationship between six app categories and six colors in the wallpaper, this relationship changes a little bit depending on users' current wallpaper selection. Tapping into one category, users are able to see app the apps belonging and their detailed screen time. Users can also navigate to the settings page from the home page to change the category information of an app, or disable the screen time display when they tap on the wallpaper.

Research

During the design phase, we launched a survey to prioritize the 5 design styles we had. The survey was designed using the MaxDiff method on Google form, and Excel was used for analyzing. It was launched in the internal team and the OnePlus Beta Testing users and received 138 valid responses. It turned out that users preferred the more aesthetic styles over the functional ones. Based on the result, we clarified the product strategy to ensure the usability of wallpapers before adding extra values and decided to prioritize the two styles called Radial and Composition which were best received.

Inspiration

During the pandemic, screen times have increased, especially on mobile devices. Alongside that, there has been an increase in usage of tools for digital wellbeing such as Insight AOD or Zen Mode previously built by OnePlus. Both Android and iOS operating systems have their own digital wellbeing sections, but from user research, we discovered that users rarely use these stock tools since they are hidden in the settings - a place rarely visited - and the charts and lists are simply unattractive. We focus on addressing two increasing user needs in this project: 1. To support smartphone users' increasing need for device personalization. Since the wallpapers are generated from the users' own data, it has a strong personal connection and is different (almost) every time they unlock their devices. 2. To help smartphone users better understand and manage their daily screen time in an effortless way. The wallpapers contain a good amount of information and don't require users to go to the "Digital Wellbeing" section deeply buried in system settings. We also looked into the competitors in the market. This included the stock digital wellbeing apps in iOS and Android, and third-party tools like "Activity Bubbles" and "Screen Stopwatch" by Google Creative Lab. We learned that our solution needs to be accurate, provide enough detail but also easy to understand, and support the increasing need for device personalization. Based on our previous experience building Insight AOD and Zen Mode, we thought a wallpaper could be a desirable medium to check all the boxes without being disruptive.

Image Credits

ONEPLUS USA Corp.

Project Overview

Wellpaper Mobile Application has been a Bronze winner in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design award category in the year 2021 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

Bronze Recognition

Jay Qian was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2022, a testament to excellence of their work Wellpaper Mobile Application.

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