The Gray Zone
How might we make discussions easier between groups with different political and cultural beliefs.
User pain points
Users avoid difficult conversations to save relationships (personal and professional) | Users want something fun to make the conversations less stressful | Emotional safety is critical for users | users want to make sure their opinions are heard |
Early ideation
Prototyping
Finished version
Our finished version of The Gray Zone was a card game to be played over iMessage or with physical cards. The cards each have topics on them of increasing difficulty, as a person explains their view on a topic those listening can place emotion tokens to explain their feelings in a respectful way, still giving the other person a chance to speak. After the person is done speaking the others in the group explain why they put down their emotion tokens and the game continues to the next person.