The lack of a central platform for commemorating. A platform that would allow for the gathering of all types of content, from all sorts of platforms, in collaboration with all the relevant people – with the goal of creating a high-quality memory.
The Problem
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Spread Memories
People use a myriad of ways to collect and store memories- Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox, smartphone albums, and physical formats like memory books. How can all of these be brought together in one place?
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Collaboration
Creating a truly meaningful commemoration often requires the input of many people who were part of the deceased's life. There's no convenient platform that facilitates easy and effective collaboration.
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Information Overload
The sheer volume of media associated with a loved one can be overwhelming. Organizing this digital clutter is a hard task, requiring significant time and effort during a period of grief.
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Emotional Overload
The process of sorting through memories and confronting reminders of their absence can be intensely painful, making it difficult to find the emotional energy and resilience needed for this task.
The Consequences
The Causes
The Causes
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The Consequences
Generic Design and Messaging
External apps often use standardized templates and generic language, lacking the personality and customization needed to truly represent a business.
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Limited Collaboration
Difficulty in sharing and collaborating on memories with others.
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Risk of Loss
Precious memories vulnerable to damage or deletion.
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Fragmented Memories
Memories scattered across platforms, creating an incomplete picture.
The Consequences
The Consequences
To understand the best way to manage large amounts of data and ensure it remains accessible. This suggests you're dealing with a significant volume of information, perhaps photos, videos, audio recordings, or documents, and want to make sure it's organized and easily retrievable.
To understand the most effective way to involve the user in the design and content creation process. This implies you want to give users a high degree of control and ownership over their online space, allowing them to personalize it and express themselves.
Businesses may miss out on opportunities to upsell services, gather customer feedback, or build relationships with clients.
My goal was to understand the competitive landscape and identify gaps in existing solutions.
This research has been instrumental in shaping the app to sensitively and effectively meet the needs of users.
Market Reaserch
User
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Market
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Generic and Messaging
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Background
Shimi lost his mother 8 months ago after a prolonged illness. He mainly commemorates her with his thoughts, which he says keep the person alive. It's important for him to remember everything well. His family wants to make a book or commemorate her in some way, but none of them have taken the initiative and made an active move.
Remembering: For Whom?
It's important for Shimi to remember, especially for his mother. He feels that as part of their connection, he has a commitment to her to remember her.
Accessing Memories
Every few weeks, at intimate times, like before sleep.
Using Platforms
They don't really exist. I go to read the chats on WhatsApp and occasionally look at the photo gallery on my phone.
Main Challenge
Proper and quality commemoration is a big project that requires a central figure to take it upon themselves.
Preferred app usage
The input work through the computer, and the output work through the phone.
additional ideas
Filtering through diverse filters: not only by time units or specific events. For example, you can also filter by the person's character traits.
"It needs to be kept simple, no need for more complexities"
Shimi, 42
Lost his mother | 8 months of mourning
Background
Dana is a mother of a large family. Her aunt passed away many years ago and after her death, Dana adopted her aunt's daughters. She is responsible for the "family memory" and makes sure to send family photos from the past and present in groups. Memory is a big concern for her and it makes her feel good.
Remembering: For Whom?
Connection to roots, continuity, lineage, identity, and respect are important to Dana.
Accessing Memories
For every occasion, birthday, etc., she searches for relevant photos. She deals with photos quite a lot throughout the year.
Using Platforms
She uses an external hard drive to search for photos.
Main Challenge
Dana searches for photos on her computer that are relevant to events, such as photos together with specific people, at a certain age, etc., which takes hours.
Preferred app usage
She would prefer to do this on her phone, but currently can't for technical reasons.
additional ideas
She wants to tag people to see shared photos of them together.
"If it were easier to access, I would do it all the time. Like, even when we're just talking, you'll mention my dad and I'll want to show you what he looked like."
Dana, 57
Aunt | 23 years of mourning
Background
Tamar lost her father when she was a very young child and doesn't have many memories of him. She was very close to her aunt Elia, who she recently lost after an illness. Tamar loves working with photos and used to create family albums and videos, and even enjoyed it. Lately, she hasn't been able to approach this task. Tamar is single and has no children.
Remembering: For Whom?
She doesn't preserve memories for future generations or for the deceased, but for herself and those around her.
Accessing Memories
She used to watch the videos and photos every month or two. In recent years she hasn't watched them.
Using Platforms
Albums that were quickly abandoned in Google Photos. She searches for photos manually in her phone's gallery and uses the Cluster app. In the past, she created physical albums and edited videos.
Main Challenge
Technological. She finds it difficult to download photos from all the different platforms and gather them together.
Preferred App Usage
Only via phone in her "free time." Due to an attention deficit, she can't sit down specifically for this task.
Additional Ides
No additional ideas.
"It's nice, this shared collective memory. Like building a puzzle together."
Tamar, 50
Father | 35 years of mourning
Background
Yael lost her father when she was just a baby, so her only memories of him are through photos. She recently lost her aunt, to whom she was very close, after an illness. Yael has two children, and both she and they enjoy remembering and getting to know their grandfather through photos, something they didn't get to experience in reality.
Remembering: For Whom?
She preserves memories especially for herself, for her children to get to know the important people in her life, and also for those who are "watching us from above."
Accessing Memories
When questions arise from the children. Once or twice a year.
Using Platforms
Nothing digital, currently a memory book from many years ago and photos hanging at home.
Main Challenge
When it's a book, it's accessible and open to view. All technological means are not accessible to her.
Your ideal app experience
Technological. She finds it difficult to download photos from all the different platforms and gather them together.
Additional Ideas
No additional ideas.
"It's nice, this shared collective memory. Like building a puzzle together"
Yael, 44
Aunt | 1 year of mourning
Generic Design and Messaging
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The Causes
Spread Memories
People use a myriad of ways to collect and store memories- Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox, smartphone albums, and physical formats like memory books. How can all of these be brought together in one place?
Collaboration
Creating a truly meaningful commemoration often requires the input of many people who were part of the deceased's life. There's no convenient platform that facilitates easy and effective collaboration.
Information Overload
Information Overload: The sheer volume of photos, videos, and documents associated with a loved one can be overwhelming. Organizing and making sense of this digital clutter requires significant time and effort, which can be a daunting task during a period of grief.
Emotional Overload
Emotional Overload: Dealing with the loss of a loved one is emotionally draining. The process of sorting through memories and confronting reminders of their absence can be intensely painful, making it difficult to find the emotional energy and resilience needed for this task.
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Organization
User control vs. AI assistance.
How to balance the two?
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Varying Perspectives
How to handle content that might be disrespectful to some but not others?
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Reminders
Helpful memory prompts or painful intrusions? Finding the right balance.
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Difficult Content
Remembering everything vs. protecting from painful memories. How to navigate this?
Dilemmas
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Export Projects
Export all memory stories, personal notes, and various content. You can easily export to multiple printed or interactive formats: presentation, interactive timeline, memory book, music playlist, and more.
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Tagging Suggestions
Managing memories can be tough. Memore uses AI to organize your tags and offers helpful suggestions for optimizing your information.
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Content Tagging
Tag any content with a wide range of labels: people, years, locations, personality traits, even a specific color—anything! This allows for precise searches, quick retrieval, and ensures no memory gets lost.
The Conclusions
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Personal Note
A way to keep private memories. Add a note to photos or various files and keep private memories just for yourself. The little things that belong only to you and that you don't want to forget.
The Conclusions
Customers may feel less connected to the business and less likely to book appointments or return for future services.
Inconsistent branding can dilute a business's identity and make it harder to stand out from the competition.
Businesses may miss out on opportunities to upsell services, gather customer feedback, or build relationships with clients.
The Consequences
The Solution
The Solution
An app that offers a respectful and accessible space to commemorate and remember loved ones, while ensuring that precious memories are kept safe and secure
Introducing
Easily gather and preserve all your loved one's memories. Memore seamlessly integrates content from any source, making it simple to build a lasting tribute together with friends and family.
Their story. Your memories. Forever.
Homepage
Everything in one place: documents, photos, songs, videos, and more. Browse and drift through memories or find specific content in organized folders.
Content Tagging
Tag anything: people, years, locations, traits, colors and more. This allows for precise searches quick retrieval, and ensures no memory gets lost.
The Features
Create & View
Memory Stories and Export Projects
All Memory Stories and export projects are in one place, accessible from the main menu which gathers the app's functions in an accessible way.
Edit Memory Story
Easily gather your photos, videos, and documents. Use tags to quickly find what you need and create a new album from your selection. This creates a pleasant, respectful, and accessible collective memory that can be edited anytime.
Sharing Box
Engage in a dynamic dialogue around your memories. Tag others in your stories, ask questions, and share different perspectives, enriching your collective remembrance.
Tagging Suggestions &
Personal Note
For everyons: Watch and edit content details, tags, and tag suggestions on each content page.
Just for yourself: Add a personal note to photos or files and preserve the emotions behind your memories.
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