Pingu
UX & UI Design for a Kids Smartwatch Platform Integrated with Parental App
A children’s smart watch interface for fostering daily habits, their development and a supportive mobile app for the involvement of parents.
Their watch for learning,
your window into their world.
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Project Statement
Pingu is a platform for child development that make education fun, promote healthy habits, maintaining an active lifestyle with technology integration.
It is integrated also with a mobile app for parents, helping to track their child’s development, involve themselves in and connect with other parents.
Smartwatch is guided by a penguin character, making children identify themselves with it.
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Project Goals
Target users8–13
It is especially designed for 8–13 aged kids and an integrated mobile app for their parents.
It is designed in consideration with the sustainable development goals:
Quality Education
Sustainable Cities and Communities
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Process and Research
The process began with the detailed research about children behaviour, health tracking, connection & communication.
Project Description & Research
Desk Research, User Research, Surveys
Ideation
Personas, Journey Maps, Scenarios
Info. Architecture, Wireframes
UI Design, Design System
Prototyping & Video Making
It got diverse when both smart watch and mobile app interface requirements and features were explored and and implemented.
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Research Insights
Facilitating Safe Social Interaction
“Community” should feature hobby groups, shared activities and event creation, enabling children to connect and interact safely under parental oversight.
Holistic Health Tracking
Implementing comprehensive monitoring — sleep, activity, hydration, heart rate and mood — to offer a complete child health profile.
Structure & Reinforcement
Providing structured tasks via the To-Do list for habit development, reinforced by My Pingu’s expressive feedback.
Gamification and Character
Ensuring gamification — character and badges — is meaningful and educative, and makes children identify themselves with the character.
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Ideation
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High Fidelity Wireframes
Parent application
Mobile structure
Child experience
Smartwatch structure
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UI Design System
Color System
Typeface
Component Library for Smart Watch
Component Library for Mobile App
Mascot Design
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Final UI Showcase
Mobile App Features
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To-Do
Enables parents to view and add activities for their child across school, lifestyle, and hobby categories.
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Health
Enables parents to create a health profile and monitor their child's activity, sleep, and hydration levels.
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Community
Allows parents and children to connect with others and discover or announce events and activities they can join together.
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Sports
Enables activity tracking while also helping users discover nearby sports events and activities.
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Art
Brings together the child's interests, activities, and creative work in a personalized collection.
Smartwatch App Features
Main Menu
Provides quick access to all smartwatch features and subfunctions.
My Pingu
Provides emotion-based feedback through the Pingu character, helping children recognize and reflect on their feelings.
To-Do
Allows children to access their daily tasks, categorized into school, lifestyle, and hobbies.
Health
Tracks health data including sleep, exercise, and hydration, presenting it to children through a gamified experience.
Sports
Encourages activities such as dancing, swimming, running, and yoga through motivating gamified experiences.
Art & DIY
Offers creative art and making activities through playful, gamified challenges that motivate children to create.
Community
Allows children to easily view their friends and shared activities.
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Video
