OVERVIEW
Mnemon is an innovative product experimenting to store digital heritage using NFT technologies.
DOMAIN
Product / Front-end Design
GOAL
Mnemon is a Dean's Undergraduate Research experimental product featuring digital heritage storage using NFT technologies. We also aimed to disseminate the concept of NFT through this project.
TOOL
ROLE (Team size 3)
Figma
Visual Design
Prototype Design
Digital Heritage?
We leave digitalized pieces of life and memories everywhere. But what will happen to our Instagram account and Amazon Prime membership as we die?
Apple IOS 15 allows adding multiple people you trust to access the data in your Apple account after your death; 遗嘱宝 allows leaving your virtual will on the Wechat Application before death.
But is there any way to keep the memory or personal life pieces permanently and our grandgrandgrandchildren after centuries can still get to know us?
That's a problem of preserving personal digital heritage. The technology of NFT may give an answer.
Interview Consolidation
Do you want to preserve your digital heritage?
As an experimentally innovative product, we created an ideal user profile who have certain digital world exposure and would love to preserve their digital heritage virtually as NFT.
But we also conducted interviews to see people's attitudes towards preserving digital heritage and using this digital heritage preserving app.
Interview Insights
We interviewed six interviewees
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Aged from 15 to 70
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3 males and 3 females
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Different jobs from students, working adults, and retired elderly
Most would love to use the product for preserving highlighted life moments permanently
- Maintaining concerns include losing privacy and asset transferring issues.
General features considered
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Users simply upload memorable media (to the blockchain) and mint their moment NFT.
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Users can add digital memories whenever they make them.
Privacy concerned features
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Only the users and those they give express permission to access their moments.
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Users can hide any moment from anyone at any time.
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Users can control who has the transfer rights of their moments.
Casual Use Case Story
We want to realize cases like the one illustrated below.
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James is out to Disney with friends. He takes some photos that he’d like everyone on the trip to remember and have forever. He pulls out his phone and opens up the ‘Mnemon’ application.
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Creates a new moment
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Adds his photos
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Uploads them to the Interplanetary File System (IPFS)
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Scans his friends' QR codes on their Mnemon to add them
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Mints the NFT
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The NFT is sent to each friend
Product goal
Provide a method to permanently preserve meaningful digital memories using NFT technologies.
User Flow Design
Prototype
Design System
Takeaway
According to the interview, preserving personal digital heritage is currently not in strong demand yet. One of the reflections is that NFT as new technology has limited exposure to ordinary people so far. However, Mnemon aims to explore the potential application of NFT as a rising technology. We believe NFT technology has a promising application in the near future.
The main takeaway of this project is experiencing the process of product design, especially being specific on conducting user research, illustrating user flow, and documenting the design system. I enjoyed working on this project to design a product as wanted.