CenterPeace

User Research
Product Design

10 Weeks

Master Program Project

CenterPeace is a smart in-home device that uses visual, sound to support open collaboration between young adults and their parents. Designed for the emotionally charged wedding planning process, it helps ease family tensions and can be adapted for other major life events.

My Role

User Research
Product Design
Branding

Collaborated on end-to-end UX research and design for CenterPeace, including interviewsinsight synthesis, and interface design

Led branding and visual direction in the final phase. 

Partnered cross-functionally to shape decisions and deliver polished, research-aligned screens, helping unify branding across the product.

Timeline

Key User Flows

Why is Wedding the problem space?

Generative Research

Ideation

Prototyping / Concept Testing

Inspiration

Color can influence various aspects of human behavior and cognition, including perception of time, performance, decision-making, and even physiological responses such as heart rate and blood pressure. [reference link1, link2, link3]

Likewise, sound can play a crucial role in shaping human behaviors and cognition, including subjective well-being, sleep patterns, health, cooperative behavior, visual perception and other effects. [link4, link5, link6]

Market Research

Information Architecture

Result

Reflection / Next Step

Further Testing: Color and sound can significantly impact human behavior and cognitive processes. We need a comprehensive understanding of the impact of our color and sound design choices to inform evidence-based decisions for the future direction of CenterPeace.

Identifying Opportunities: Understanding where CenterPeace lies beyond the wedding experience.

“It could be used for things like when a group, whether it's a family or a group of friends [goes through any] complex project or decision making...I think it could be something that could be used for that because ... there's a lot of unspoken stuff.” - P4

Xinyi Zhao

["shin-ee"]

Product designer with a visual design edge and fast-paced agency experience.

Xinyi Zhao

["shin-ee"]

Product designer with a visual design edge and fast-paced agency experience.