Prez
2019 | research | Ideation |
prototyping | user tests
A portable watercolor set that enables its user to achieve an emotional calm state in opportune moments. Prez accompanied with service and app to enhance the experience.
Do you usually feel stressed?
Because many adults in the US do.
It is a way of doing meditation by creating unexpected watercolor paintings in order to relax and clear their mind. This process can ease chronic pain, anxiety, and stress.
Portable Kit with the Necessities
“… not always have watercolor papers when want to paint, but it doesn’t bother me. I have used napkins and print papers, and put them into my sketchbook …”
Minimize Preparation Effort
“… I had carried the watercolor kit, that hand-size portable one, with me before. I finally give up because it always makes my workspace messy with water and colors ... I may paint for only 5 minutes, yet spend another 5 minutes setting up and cleaning.”
Enhance the Experience with Tutorials
"… coming up with inspiration is difficult for me. And I have found those tutorials very helpful. All I need to do is follow them ..."
Challenge: How to inject the time of watercolor meditation into the busy schedule?
Compressing all the components into a paintbrush can maximizing achieve the goal of portability.
After deciding the concept, I brainstormed ways of storing paint and use paint. The final design contains a paint palette on the back of the brush. The palette can be taken out or be stored back by one step, which simplifies the using process.
Meditation requires relaxation and comfort. Physical prototypes were made and tested to find the most comfortable shape to hold for painting.
After three rounds of user testing, here comes Prez.
It is a portable watercolor kit that brings emotionally calm to its user in daily opportune moments.
Compact and Carefree
The size of Prez allows it to be carries around even in pocket.
Achieve Emotionally Calm
Accompanied with the Prez app, users would receive a more fluid watercolor meditation experience.
Neoprene Coating gives a feeling of semi soft skin texture, which is super comfortable to touch with.
Key Attributes of color ways:
Peaceful
Mindful
Naivety
Simple
Lively
Wonder how Prez creates mindful moments in a busy working day? Here is the demonstration.
Prez, m
ore than a watercolor set.
Provides a more inspiring watercolor meditation experience.
The four main functions provided by Prez App are introduction tutorials, music for meditation, sources of inspirations, and shopping for color refills.
Prez provides coordinated color palettes for various needs.
Experienced meditation painters can customize their specialized color palette through Prez app.
