Nowadays, individuals always find themselves in various situations where they need to choose gifts. Gift exchange helps individuals to signal commitments as well as promote social closeness. However, in many cases, people are also facing the occasions in which finding a gift for
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Nowadays, individuals always find themselves in various situations where they need to choose gifts. Gift exchange helps individuals to signal commitments as well as promote social closeness. However, in many cases, people are also facing the occasions in which finding a gift for an unknown-preference person, or miss-predict recipient’s reaction after receiving the gift. Inspired by the value of gift exchanging and the findings of Positive Design (the study of how design can contribute to human flourishing), Emotion/Studio started some explorative work to study qualities of meaningful gifts, which refers to the gifts that contribute to the well-being of recipient. The objective of this graduation project was to develop a practical online gift-selecting tool that can help people find “meaningful gifts” for their recipients.
The final concept is Meaningful Gift website. It is a platform that offers users with diverse gift-planning
toolkits. It targets on giving inspirations, escorting explorations instead of suggesting or marketing
goods. Users can use the tools by starting a “gift project”, this function is also designed to allow them tracking their previous works. Two of the most essential tools of this website is “Get gift ideas” and “Weave a gift story”, which focus on finding gifts and creating gift accessories respectively. Both tools are consist of multiple explorative steps, users will complete these tasks with the help of visual and textual stimuli.