Whisper’ is an audio meditation app designed to lull users in with user-friendly UI and do the entirely opposite of meditation with loud and uncomfortable noises and being unable to interrupt, adjust volume or stop the audio.
We were inspired by how we could subvert existing apps to do the opposite. We researched apps like Tripview and thought of how we could make it take the longest route or with Google Reviews and only recommending 1-star restaurants. The final idea chosen was a meditation app that would be used in times of rest and challenge ourselves to try out other aspects of Figma (i.e. incorporating audio work, animation).
‘Whisper’ is an audio meditation app that instills a false sense of security in users with its interface and art style, only to pull the rug when they start playing podcasts or ambiance. From there, we made it so that they cannot adjust the volume level of the audio, pause the audio and even quit out of the app.
It’s the best because of the irony and wordplay with the app. It is the opposite of good user design in the most important facets of the app.
Any major fails we had was attempting to embed audio into the Figma file. As Figma is more fit as a design tool than a web development program, we had trouble embedding audio files and code into the platform.
Created by: Jackie, Priscilla, Sam, Jonas