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PINKY

This work is done for the UpLabs Chat Interaction challenge. Vote for us if you like! Thanks!
Problem
Nowadays people lack communication channels to share all the information they process every day, and we want to change that. Even small improvements in existing channels, one of which are chat apps, can lead to an enormous difference for the humanity.

Our research helped us to discover that voice messages are not used by many people for different reasons, but we can solve two of them. 

The first one is that it's hard to distinguish between several messages of nearly same lengths. "There are no titles on them," — said one of our interviewees. 

The second is that it's hard to listen to them without headphones, especially in public places. Typing has disadvantages too — it's quite slow and inconvenient.

For example, unpleasant situations that may occur:
About voice messages
About typing using mobile keyboard
Research
We compared Hangouts, WhatsApp, Telegram and analyzed user reviews to find out what people love and hate about them. They obviously have some minor differences, but mostly they differ in style and mood. And turns out users' reviews highly depend on this major difference. 
Ideas
To solve the problem of communication via chat apps we generated several ideas. Here are the best ones we've got:
Solution
We came up with a feature for chat apps that turns voice messages into text ones for faster and more comfortable communication. 
Style and mood
We chose to pay exclusive attention to our app's style and mood. Pink color gives the app some delicacy and tenderness, while it's little saturation and brightness make the app light and clean.
Why do words have different opacity? 
The certainty of the speech recognition algorithm is represented by the opacity of each word: the lower the probability, the less opacity the word gets.
Thanks for voting for us in the challenge

And check out the story about this project on Medium, if you haven't done it yet!
Credits
Gleb Sabirzyanov — User Experience Design, Rapid Prototyping, Content Strategy, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Animation
Olesya Chernyavskaya — User Experience Design, Rapid Prototyping, Content Strategy, User Interface Design, Competitive Analysis, Illustrations

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There is always a better way, so we designed a better way to communicate via chat apps.

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