Co-Designing the Future Social Media with Teenagers
We investigate teenagers' goals of using technology to achieve a healthy lifestyle through co-designing the future social media
Collaborators
Christina Chung (Advisor), Yuxing Wu (Researcher)
Method
Workbook - Co-Design Workshop
Overview
We explore how teenagers identify the problems and opportunities of social media, and how they envision the future social media to help cultivate a healthy lifestyle.
Contributions
Co-designing with teenagers using the double diamond design model
Our study contributes to how teenagers can use the double diamond model as a tool to ideate new designs.
Understanding Teenagers' perception of healthy lifestyles
This co-design workshop also allows us to understand how teenagers perceive "healthy lifestyle" through their discussion and design process.
Co-Design Workshop held in Summer 2022.
Teens wanted social media to help them focus on hobbies and activities that they define as therapeutic, relaxing, and meaningful.
They also wanted to free themselves from thinking about their own selves.
Teens hoped that social media could foster more meaningful interactions, such as sincerely cheering on and supporting friends' life updates instead of run-on content.
This work is presented as Co-Designing Social Media that Support Teen Well-Being and Healthy Habits, at the poster session at annual meeting of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine 2026, Seattle.
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