The Icon and Interface of the Journaling Design of the Ace Diary Mobile App

Published date: Jun 02 2021

Journal Title: KnE Social Sciences

Issue title: International Conference on Art, Design, Education and Cultural Studies (ICADECS)

Pages: 323-329

DOI: 10.18502/kss.v5i6.9220

Dhara Alim Cendekiadhara.alim.fs@um.ac.idUniversitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia

Riskiyana Prihatiningsih1Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia

Azhar Ahmad SmaradignaUniversitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia

Kelik Desta RahmantoUniversitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia

Stefano ScippaComitati Cittadini Indipendenti, Bologna, Italy

Tsabita KholisComitati Cittadini Indipendenti, Bologna, Italy

The Ace Diary is an online counseling app that provides art therapy features, receptive music therapy, journaling, a chat room, emergency calling, loving quotes, and scheduling based on quadrant-time of 4th generation time management information architecture. Furthermore, counselors can monitor activities on the app. These features had not been integrated before, which is why a basic design was developed for this purpose by using the M. Asimov model to design this app. The visual strategy used for showing a typical journaling diary is lines with brushstroke and calming pastel colors. Ace Diary has six primary pages: drawing, venting, scheduling, room chat and calling, quotes, and record tracking. The different group pages have different background colors so that audiences can distinguish the page’s functions. Students’ picture profiles are created using an illustration in the same design style to keep identities confidential.

Keywords: strategic journaling design, quadrant-time of 4th generation of time management, pastel colors, brushstroke

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