Letter Trip
A lifestyle app for sending postcards
Letter Trip personifies the Letter, calculates and plan the sending path of the Letter from the mailing and receiving locations, selects scenic spots on the way, generates a travel log and sends it to user synchronously. The recipient will receive the electronic postcard after the expected delivery time to avoid the dilemma of losing physical postcard.
Zhejiang University (2018)
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Designed With He Yue
Shortlisted in Chinese University Computer Contest - Mobile Application Innovation Contest final round
Project Brief
Innovation app design for Chinese University Computer Contest - Mobile Application Innovation Contest.
Existing problems
The behaviour of sending postcard during the special festivities or overseas trip has been continuing till today. However, the traditional way of sending a postcard is often low efficiency. In comparison, the users of technology had sometimes taken away the human touch.
Traditional paper postcard
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- Often lost especially long-distance delivery
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- Hard to retrieve
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- Bad user experience to sender
E-postcard
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- Lost of physical contact
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- Does not give the same user experience as the traditional
Design Concept
After comparing the existing products offering in the market, we aim to design an application to improve the experience of sending E-postcard and yet keeping the emotion brings by the traditional postcard.
Final Design
Prepare and send E-Postcard
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Create a new trip for your postcard by taking a photo of the paper postcard or select images to form the E-postcard.
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Fill in the name and address of the receiver and sent. The new trip started and appeared in the send box.
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Cloud backup postcard, information never lost. The electronic message sheet can edit the text and stickers again.
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Receive log
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The way and time of sending postcards online are simulated and synchronized with those offline to form a natural and complete experience of sending letters.
The sender will receive the logistics information calculated by the route and logistics node, as well as the scenery in the way of postcard mailing path.
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When the recipient receives the postcard, a travel log of the postcard is sent together.
Prepare Paper Postcard
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Get your paper postcard filled and ready to send.
Send Paper Postcard
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Collection Wall
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The postcards send and received by the user forms a collection wall, users can easily review each postcard and print it out if they did not receive the physical postcard from the sender.
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