<aside> 🎖️ Most Innovative Product Award

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📷 Product Shot

        Frimpy says hi!

Frimpy, is our innovative holographic pet - an interactive and enchanting addition to classrooms, fostering unparalleled engagement and promoting in-class participation and collaborative teamwork among students.

Value Proposition:

Frimpy makes learning more fun and rewarding for both students and instructors. Our cute holographic pets and gamified experience lets students track their participation, collaborate better with teams, and get recognized for their efforts. Frimpy motivates teams to engage more in class through points, customizations, and positive feedback. By helping make academics more enjoyable and interactive, our pets liven up the classroom environment to battle boredom, fatigue, and stress!

By incentivizing involvement, Frimpy fosters better comprehension and collaboration to boost outcomes.

*Note: Frimpy is just a name we are using to refer to the character we designed. In a real scenario, every team can customize the appearance, name, etc of their assigned pet.

Product Video

As the outcome of deep research using diary studies, customer surveys, live user testing, ideation workshops, and more, this project aims to in-class learning environment more fun, interactive, and collaborative.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iECV5TcUG8H8W2rNQHomkTjFTx7XcRud/view?usp=drive_link

Motivation

• The motivation behind Frimpy was to facilitate engaged learning by complementing traditional teaching methods to allow for interactive and stimulating learning experiences for students.
• We wanted to provide a source of extrinsic motivation for participation that battles the fatigue and dip in enthusiasm brought on by the chronic stress that students undoubtedly face.
• Further, we wanted to recreate, in part, a game-like environment to better draw attention to team and individual progress.
• Lastly, Frimpy is also driven by the motive to ease administrative tasks like attendance and engagement tracking.

Key insights

In order to better understand our target audience, we decided to conduct some research via Diary Studies and Surveying.

At a high level, we tried to tap into the following aspects of the user’s daily academic life —

Understanding Daily Routines: