Zen Studio – Finger painting to relax & focus

The Challenge

Zen Studio is a project that grew from a chance encounter with Brian Silverman and Paula Bontá of the Montreal based, Playful Invention Company. The app is a simple and intuitive digital drawing tool with a million and one possibilities for creation!

It includes 100+ amazing tutorials that will carefully teach your child how to create their favourite animals and objects using a grid of triangles as a canvas. What’s more, our unique generative music algorithm will create a soothing soundtrack that is guaranteed to calm your child as they draw.

The process

We started to discuss about the best drawing app interface for the really young kids. After doing some sketchs, we finally found the ideas. We started to develop a prototype to test with children from a Montessori school in the East Shore. We conducted more than 5 test sessions with different schools. After designing all the screens for the app, I created all the tutorials, their icons and their different steps to create the final drawing. More than 100 were created.

You can find the app here : Zen Studio on AppStore – on Google Play.

Client: Edoki Academy
Product: Creation of a new App
Date : November 2016
Field: User research, Ux & App Design