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DAYZIP
Dayzip is a digital journal scrapbook app designed to help people vividly capture and relive their daily lives.
More than just a diary, Dayzip transforms journaling into an emotionally engaging, multi-sensory experience. Users can document their personal journeys by easily adding notes, photos, and music to each entry, creating richly detailed memories. The app helps users revisit past moments through these combined sensory elements, making everyday memories feel fresh, meaningful, and alive again.
Industry
Team
Role
December, 2024
Journaling
Personal Project
User Researcher
Product Designer
Timeline
Background
As we journey through life, we create countless meaningful memories. Yet, over time,
even the most precious moments inevitably fade, losing clarity and emotional impact.
Problem
Limited method to archive memories
Traditional journaling methods often lack the sensory richness needed to vividly preserve
personal moments, resulting in memories that become distant and incomplete.
“How might we reimagine journaling
as a vivid, milestone-driven journey
that deepens self-understanding?”
Solution
New Paradigm of Journaling
Offering a visually rich and emotionally engaging way to capture
life's milestones by adding notes, images, and other media.
Express your unique story in diverse formats,
Using our all-in-one workspace,
And navigate your entries effortlessly.
Discover
How are memories impacted by adding documentation?
Initial Research
Ebbinghaus, H. (1885). Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology.
Paivio, A. (1986). Mental Representations: A Dual Coding Approach.
Sweller, J., van Merrienboer, J. J. G., & Paas, F. G. W. C. (1998). Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design.
Memory fading is a significant challenge without reinforcement.
Especially for U.S. teenagers and young adults
whose lifestyles involve constant new experiences.
Multi-sensory documentation incorporating such as visuals, text,
and auditory cues shows promise in improving memory retention.
New information can
be lost within the first hour
Memory recall can be significantly better when visual elements are used
Target Audience
Primary Users: Teenagers and young adults
Targeting teenagers and young adults aged 13 to 25, navigating self‑expression, emotional exploration, and social sharing.
Secondary Users: Avid journalers
Targeting avid journalers passionate about capturing and preserving their personal memories.
What challenges do they
have with current journaling?
Potential User Research
Understanding the viewpoints and pain points of the potential users
A total of seven participants were interviewed to get a better understanding of the method
of documenting memory, frustrations of current journaling, and perceptions regarding journaling.
Research Implication
Define
Research Implication
Affinity mapping was used to narrow interview findings
down to three main themes surrounding our pain points
Limited methods
of traditional journaling
Traditional journaling often limits users, causes a loss of consistency.
Challenge with
self expression
It makes difficult to fully capture the richness of their experiences.
Difficulties of navigating
to past entries
It is challenging for users to locate
and revisit their past entries easily.
“If product lets people capture daily moments with layered media and makes it easier
to navigate past entries, then users will create
a vivid archive that’s effortless to relive.”
Key features
Capture it own way
Save memories as photos, text, voice notes, or different media, whatever best tells the story.
Express yourself freely
Built‑in decorations and mood
tags make it simple to record feelings as well as facts.
Find moments fast
Smart search and calendar
views let you jump back to
any memory in one tap.
Ideate
User Persona
User Journey
DAYZIP
Dayzip is a digital journal scrapbook app designed to help people vividly capture and relive their daily lives.
More than just a diary, Dayzip transforms journaling into an emotionally engaging, multi-sensory experience. Users can document their personal journeys by easily adding notes, photos, and music to each entry, creating richly detailed memories. The app helps users revisit past moments through these combined sensory elements, making everyday memories feel fresh, meaningful, and alive again.
Team
Industry
Personal Project
Journaling
Role
User Researcher
Product Designer
Timeline
December, 2024
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Design Decision
Home Feed
Archive
Artboard
Selected
Three different workflows for adding media resulted in key changes.
Adding media from other apps.
Design Approach
Start documentation
Take photos, scans, or record voice notes
How it works?
Explore
You can add locations with photos, write something down, and decorate
your entries with emojis on the artboard to express yourself.
Decorate your entries on all-in-one artboard
Integrating various media from other apps.
You can enjoy the attached media on your artboard.
Enriching your entries
Publish your entries
Upload the entries as public or private. Adding keywords
for categorization and easy-to-explore other people's entries.
Effortless navigation
Explore memories organized by categories in the archives,
quickly locating past moments as daily and calendar views.
Categorized archives
Navigate to the entries easily and clearly through your categorized
archives and swiftly locate entries by entering keywords.
Walkthroughs with three early‑stage users highlighted critical improvements, guiding key updates to the prototype.
User Testing
Key Learnings from User Testing
Add photos with filters
Create your own custom filters
Iterations
Based on a desire for personalization and decoration,
I explored how to customize their photo entries.
Add voice recording with displays of spoken entries.
Custom auto-written entries with editing contents,
choosing typefaces and colors.
Responding to users’ desire for more varied ways to archive memories,
devising intuitive entry methods to simplify the start of each documentation.
User feedback showed the archive felt cluttered,
so I added clear category tabs and reorganized the layout.
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