Overview

Compliments.A small token of love with a big impact. Compliments have been known to kick off virtuous cycles that magnify over time. A simple string of words put together and spoken in praise of something or someone to make them feel special and loved. Sounds easy right? Yet most of us find it so hard to give or receive compliments.

Giving and receiving compliments is an art which anyone can become an artist of. All we need is a little nudge.Through this project we aim to design simple tools to help people catalyse kindness and love by practising the ritual of giving and receiving compliments.

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Bringing design to life

We developed a theory of change that we built our approach on: If we learn how to give compliments, the art of receiving them, then these small acts of love will kick off multiple cycles of virtuousness and motivate people to enact bigger acts of love.

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Key Insights

Insights: Giving Compliments

01: A compliment that is meaningful to the giver may not be so for a receiver, and this imbalance in priorities can counteract the positive sentiment with which the interaction is initiated.

02: Givers underestimate the impact of their praise, yet a compliment is often highly valued by the reciever.

03: The perfect compliment does not exist, but the pursuit of this can lead to delays in the delivery, a heighted fear of rejection, and ultimately, an opportunity lost.‍

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Insights: Receiving Compliments

01: Receivers tend to block & deflect compliments when they feel underconfident and undeserving. Still the feelings of being 'valuable and loved' always take the top spot.

02: Sometimes receivers tend to forget and don't appreciate the gestures of love. They also do not realise that compliments is more about the giver.

03: Often the receiver's expectations do not match with the givers 100% because their idea of love is different.

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Design

KIND AI: Kind AI is a Kindness Monitor that reinforces positive behaviours on the internet. It is an API or plug-in for people who want to integrate more kindness in their online interactions. The users can download and link to their social media and email apps to track their written content (emails, texts, posts, comments) with suggestions and rewards that promote positive and kind language. Kind Ai also provides users an insight into the impact of their actions.

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COMPLIMENT CARDS:

SPREAD LOVE: Compliment Cards are for people who want to make this world a kinder place but struggle with knowing how. Compliment Cards are prewritten compliments that people can give to their friends, family, work peers or strangers to spread love!

LOVE DIRECTORY TO FUTURE:

SELF LOVE: Love Directory is for people who want to make this world a kinder place, but in the process forget that they are also valued. Acting as a digital journal, it helps people to capture and log pictures and memories of an artefact or deed that made them feel loved by others offering users the option to post-date a memory for the future. As it is said one can only pour from their own filled bucket.

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Prototype

We plan to take a hypothesis-led approach to prototyping and user testing. Based on the ideas we plan to move ahead with prototyping and testing them in the real world, starting with paper prototypes and then moving on to building physical and digital mockups for each concept.

Next Steps

1. Refine our ideas and validate initial hypotheses. Engage in conversations with experts in the field to gain insights and co-create multiple versions of our solution, ensuring its effectiveness and inclusivity.
2. Collaborate with key stakeholders and enablers to transform our concepts into tangible prototypes, to explore feasibility and real-time applications.
3. Implement a comprehensive testing process for our prototypes within agreed-upon environments and outcomes.