Overview
turn Your Child's Artwork Into Organized Memories and Meaningful Insights
Let’s face it, every masterpiece your child creates is special. But keeping it all organized and finding space to store it can quickly become overwhelming.
Artbook solves this by digitally preserving every drawing, craft, and 3D creation, organizing them by subject and theme.
It also delivers insightful reflections on your child’s development, turning everyday art into lasting memories and meaningful understanding.
the problem
Too much art, not enough space
Parents of children aged 2–10 often find themselves overwhelmed by the constant stream of drawings, crafts, and 3D creations their kids bring home.
With limited space and no easy way to organize or preserve them, these treasured pieces often end up lost, damaged or reluctantly thrown away.
causes – Why artwork piles up
Hard to preserve 3D art
Bulky, fragile sculptures or crafts are hard to store, and often end up damaged or thrown away.
Limited storage
Parents quickly run out of space to keep every drawing, painting, or paper creation their kids bring home.
IMPLICATIONS
1. Significant time and energy is spent trying to preserve creations the right way.
Treasured artworks and memories are lost.
Household clutter builds up quickly.
Parents feel a loss of control and organization.
Guilt sets in when throwing away a child's creation.
If children find their artwork in the trash, it may hurt their trust and confidence.
User Research
Real Voices, Real Struggles
To better understand how parents manage the overwhelming flow of their children’s artwork, I conducted interviews with:
9 parents of children aged 2–10
3 early childhood educators (preschool teachers)
2 parents of older children (ages 11+)
key findings
1.
Parents feel overwhelmed by the volume of artwork and lack of space.
2.
They’re emotionally attached to every piece and want to preserve the memories.
3.
They need simple, intuitive organization with clear chronological order.
4.
Many are curious about AI-driven developmental insights as long as it's effortless.
Design Questions That Shaped ArtBook
Letting real challenges shape the experience
As I translated research insights into early product thinking, I mapped the core challenges that would guide the design process. These questions helped me focus on what really matters to parents balancing emotion, clarity, and trust throughout the experience.
Getting Started
How do we motivate parents to upload that very first artwork with confidence?
What helps them come back and keep the habit going?
Organizing Creativity
How can sorting feel natural, not like managing files?
What’s the simplest way to organize both 2D and 3D art by date, theme, or event
Trust and Security
How do we build trust that every memory is safe?
What’s the most respectful way to handle privacy and sensitive content?
Adding Value
How do we offer meaningful insights without creating overwhelm?
Can expert support feel helpful but never intrusive?
MARKET Research
Beyond the Shoebox: Why Today’s Apps Miss the Mark
While many apps help parents store their children's creations, most stop there.
Today’s parents crave more than just a digital shoebox — they want a smarter, more meaningful way to preserve and understand their child’s creative journey.
None of the leading platforms offer emotional preservation, smart organization, or AI-powered developmental insights over time.
Adjacent Markets
What Others Offer and What’s Still Missing
Digital storage & sharing
Lacks developmental insights or analysis.
Print & archive art
No way to track growth or creativity over time.
Family art gallery
smart sorting or guided feedback.
Memory journaling
Not focused on visual or creative expression.
Milestone tracking & sharing
No features for art or emotional development.
Private photo sharing
Doesn’t support art-focused organization or insights.
Wireframes
Shaping the Art Journey One Screen at a Time
I mapped out early wireframes to reflect the real flow of a parent's experience capturing, organizing, and connecting with their child’s creativity.
Each screen was designed to feel intuitive, light, and emotionally driven turning everyday moments into meaningful memories.
Getting Started
Parents begin by creating a profile for their child choosing name, gender, and family role. This gentle setup ensures the app feels personal from the very first tap.
Capturing & Organizing Art
Parents can easily scan, name, and sort each creation by date or theme. A scrollable timeline makes it simple to relive moments and revisit milestones over time.
AI Insights
After 30 uploads, ArtBook begins surfacing trends and patterns offering gentle developmental observations based on colours, composition, and topics.
Insights are designed to support both curiosity and conversation.
Sharing with Family
Turning private moments into shared joy
Parents can instantly share albums with grandparents or co-parents, making it easy to involve loved ones in their child’s creative journey even from afar.
solution
From Fridge Door to Forever
Preserving Childhood, One Drawing at a Time
ArtBook is a digital app that helps parents capture, organize, and preserve their child’s artwork from sketches to 3D creations.
Each piece is safely stored, automatically categorized by theme and date, and easy to find anytime.
Along the way, gentle insights highlight the child’s creative growth turning scattered memories into a meaningful story.
HOME PAGE
A Cozy Hub for Every Creation
Parents arrive at a warm, visual dashboard of the themed folders they’ve created. A floating “+” invites them to add new art in a single tap, a quick toggle switches to a date-based timeline for reliving moments, and moving between their children’s profiles is seamless.
Design system
Designing with Warmth, Nostalgia, and Trust
When crafting ArtBook's design system, I aimed to evoke the same feeling you get when flipping through an old family album.
The soft palette, gentle fonts, and hand-drawn illustrations were chosen to create a sense of comfort, trust, and emotional connection.
This style invites parents to engage with their child’s creativity in a way that feels both meaningful and familiar.
Icons & Illustrations
Friendly, rounded icons keep the UI approachable.
My custom character generated in Midjourney and refined in Figma with added warm details brings personality and invites connection.
Onboarding
A Warm Welcome
Greeted with friendly prompts and a personal profile setup, parents instantly feel at home and ready to start preserving memories.
Upload Artwork
Capture in a Flash
With one tap, artwork is scanned or uploaded and auto-sorted plus an option for a caption or voice note makes each piece uniquely theirs.
Your Child’s Creative Timeline
Where every memory unfolds
Switch between a themed gallery and an interactive timeline relive each drawing, painting, or sculpture in the order it happened, and watch your child’s journey come to life.
INSIGHTS SCREEN
Turning Art into Understanding
After uploading 30 drawings, parents receive a gentle notification inviting them to explore their child’s growth.
They can choose which topics to analyze like emotions, social skills, or motor development and view a personalized dashboard with clear, meaningful insights. This helps parents and educators spot emerging strengths, track milestones, and better support the child’s journey all through their art.
FAMILY SHARING
Keeping Memories Close, No Matter the Distance
ArtBook lets parents easily invite loved ones to follow their child’s creative journey.
With just a few taps, a secure email invitation is sent giving grandparents, aunts, or friends access to the child’s visual gallery. They can view all categorized artwork in real time, creating an emotional bridge between generations, even from afar.
artbook | UX | UI
Preserve Artwork. Understand Development. Cherish the Journey.
The ultimate app for parents to digitally archive their child’s creative work, organize it with ease, and gain meaningful insights into their artistic and developmental growth turning everyday art into lifelong memories.
artbook | UX | UI
Preserve Artwork. Understand Development. Cherish the Journey.
The ultimate app for parents to digitally archive their child’s creative work, organize it with ease, and gain meaningful insights into their artistic and developmental growth turning everyday art into lifelong memories.
Overview
turn Your Child's Artwork Into Organized Memories and Meaningful Insights
Let’s face it, every masterpiece your child creates is special. But keeping it all organized and finding space to store it can quickly become overwhelming.
Artbook solves this by digitally preserving every drawing, craft, and 3D creation, organizing them by subject and theme.It also delivers insightful reflections on your child’s development, turning everyday art into lasting memories and meaningful understanding.
the problem
Too much art, not enough space
Parents of children aged 2–10 often find themselves overwhelmed by the constant stream of drawings, crafts, and 3D creations their kids bring home. With limited space and no easy way to organize or preserve them, these treasured pieces often end up lost, damaged or reluctantly thrown away.
causes – Why artwork piles up
Hard to preserve 3D art
Bulky, fragile sculptures or crafts are hard to store, and often end up damaged or thrown away.
Limited storage
Parents quickly run out of space to keep every drawing, painting, or paper creation their kids bring home.
IMPLICATIONS
Significant time and energy is spent trying to preserve creations the right way.
Treasured artworks and memories are lost.
Household clutter builds up quickly.
Parents feel a loss of control and organization.
Guilt sets in when throwing away a child's creation.
If children find their artwork in the trash, it may hurt their trust and confidence.
key findings
Parents feel overwhelmed by the volume of artwork and lack of space.
They’re emotionally attached to every piece and want to preserve the memories.
They need simple, intuitive organization with clear chronological order.
Many are curious about AI-driven developmental insights as long as it's effortless.
Design Questions That Shaped ArtBook
Letting real challenges shape the experience
As I translated research insights into early product thinking, I mapped the core challenges that would guide the design process. These questions helped me focus on what really matters to parents balancing emotion, clarity, and trust throughout the experience.
Getting Started
How do we motivate parents to upload that very first artwork with confidence?
What helps them come back and keep the habit going?
Organizing Creativity
How can sorting feel natural, not like managing
files?
What’s the simplest way to organize both 2D and 3D art by date, theme, or event
Trust and Security
How do we build trust that every memory is safe?
What’s the most respectful way to handle privacy and sensitive content?
Adding Value
How do we offer meaningful insights without creating overwhelm?
Can expert support feel helpful but never intrusive?
User Research
Real Voices, Real Struggles
To better understand how parents manage the overwhelming flow of their children’s artwork, I conducted interviews with:
9 parents of children aged 2–10
3 early childhood educators
2 parents of older children (ages 11+).
MARKET Research
Beyond the Shoebox: Why Today’s Apps Miss the Mark
While many apps help parents store their children's creations, most stop there.
Today’s parents crave more than just a digital shoebox they want a smarter, more meaningful way to preserve and understand their child’s creative journey. None of the leading platforms offer emotional preservation, smart organization, or AI-powered developmental insights over time.
Adjacent Markets
What others offer and what’s still missing
Digital storage & sharing
Lacks developmental insights or analysis.
Print & archive art
No way to track growth or creativity over time.
Family art gallery
smart sorting or guided feedback.
Memory journaling
Not focused on visual or creative expression.
Milestone tracking & sharing
No features for art or emotional development.
Private photo sharing
Doesn’t support art-focused organization or insights.
Turning Research into Action
Speaking with parents and exploring existing solutions helped me uncover four key challenges each one pointing toward a clear design opportunity.
Overwhelming volume, emotional attachment
Parents were drowning in artwork, unsure what to keep.
Solution: Smart folders sort creations by year, event, or theme no guilt, no chaos, just gentle control.
Struggling to preserve and showcase art
The process felt tedious and uninviting.
Solution: Simple scanning with optional enhancements makes saving creations easy and visually rewarding.
No way to understand developmental growth
Parents wanted meaning, not just storage.
Solution: After 30+ uploads, AI identifies patterns and trends. When needed, access to child development experts is just a tap away.
Memories were being lost, not shared
The process felt tedious and uninviting.
Solution: Digital galleries and gentle prompts help families celebrate creativity in real time.
Wireframes
Shaping the Art Journey One Screen at a Time
I mapped out early wireframes to reflect the real flow of a parent's experience capturing, organizing, and connecting with their child’s creativity.
Each screen was designed to feel intuitive, light, and emotionally driven turning everyday moments into meaningful memories.
Getting Started
Parents begin by creating a profile for their child choosing name, gender, and family role. This gentle setup ensures the app feels personal from the very first tap.
Capturing & Organizing Art
Parents can easily scan, name, and sort each creation by date or theme. A scrollable timeline makes it simple to relive moments and revisit milestones over time.
AI Insights
After 30 uploads, ArtBook begins surfacing trends and patterns offering gentle developmental observations
based on colours, composition, and topics.
Sharing with Family
Turning private moments into shared joy
Parents can instantly share albums with grandparents or co-parents, making it easy to involve loved ones in their child’s creative journey even from afar.
solution
From Fridge Door to Forever Preserving Childhood, One Drawing at a Time
ArtBook is a digital app that helps parents capture, organize, and preserve their child’s artwork from sketches to 3D creations.
Each piece is safely stored, automatically categorized by theme and date, and easy to find anytime. Along the way, gentle insights highlight the child’s creative growth turning scattered memories into a meaningful story.
HOME PAGE
A Cozy Hub for Every Creation
Parents arrive at a warm, visual dashboard of the themed folders they’ve created. A floating “+” invites them to add new art in a single tap, a quick toggle switches to a date-based timeline for reliving moments, and moving between their children’s profiles is seamless.
Design system
Designing with Warmth, Nostalgia, and Trust
When crafting ArtBook's design system, I aimed to evoke the same feeling you get when flipping through an old family album. The soft palette, gentle fonts, and hand-drawn illustrations were chosen to create a sense of comfort, trust, and emotional connection. This style invites parents to engage with their child’s creativity in a way that feels both meaningful and familiar.
Icons & Illustrations
Friendly, rounded icons keep the UI approachable.
My custom character generated in Midjourney and refined in Figma with added warm details brings personality and invites connection.
Onboarding
A Warm Welcome
Greeted with friendly prompts and a personal profile setup, parents instantly feel at home and ready to start preserving memories.
Upload Artwork
Capture in a Flash
With one tap, artwork is scanned or uploaded and auto-sorted plus an option for a caption or voice note makes each piece uniquely theirs.
Your Child’s Creative Timeline
Where every memory unfolds
Switch between a themed gallery and an interactive timeline relive each drawing, painting, or sculpture in the order it happened, and watch your child’s journey come to life.
INSIGHTS SCREEN
Turning Art into Understanding
After uploading 30 drawings, parents receive a gentle notification inviting them to explore their child’s growth. They can choose which topics to analyze like emotions, social skills, or motor development and view a personalized dashboard with clear, meaningful insights.This helps parents and educators spot emerging strengths, track milestones, and better support the child’s journey all through their art.
FAMILY SHARING
Keeping Memories Close, No Matter the Distance
ArtBook lets parents easily invite loved ones to follow their child’s creative journey.
With just a few taps, a secure email invitation is sent giving grandparents, aunts, or friends access to the child’s visual gallery. They can view all categorized artwork in real time, creating an emotional bridge between generations, even from afar.
