How to improve your short term memory and mental visualization skill

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How to improve your short term memory and mental visualization skill

_nico_

https://brainfood.itch.io/kepler22

Train your brain with Kepler22, the first audio-based brain jogging app (at least to my knowledge).

With Kepler22 you will improve your short term memory, concentration and mental visualization skill.

The app features 9 different exercises such as

spelling backwards
memory
mental arithmetic
word scramble

The game is available in English, German and Spanish.

Maaack

I gave this a shot for a couple of minutes. Have some feedback, but it'd be great to know what your target audience is, and what kind of feedback you are specifically looking for.

It looks like you have a decent list of different game modes for a user to engage with. Also, the scoring and reward system at the end of completions is nice. The design is clunkier from what I would want from a brain-training app, though. This makes me unsure about your target audience. Is it for children? Is it for the elderly? These can make a significant difference in how it's best to present learning material.

Overall, I think there are some interesting things offered here mechanically speaking. The UI/UX and design around the material don't work for me. But there is a lot of potential here.

_nico_

Thank you for providing feedback - I appreciate it. My main target group are adults; I believe children will get easily bored with most exercises.

Could you elaborate what bothers you about the UI? Do you think a UI that's similar to a standard website would be better?

I wasn't so sure regarding the animations and characters when I made the game. Probably they are a bit too childish - however without the cartoon animations it would be less entertaining.

I'm looking for exactly the feedback you just gave me.

Maaack

I'm not currently a consumer of any brain-training app, and don't see myself using one in the near future, so my feedback will have that bias.

Could you elaborate what bothers you about the UI? I discovered too much by failing - I did the wrong thing first before realizing what the app wanted from me. If this is something customers are supposed to use a few minutes every day, then optimize for their time. I'd test putting them into a challenge as soon as they open the app, and make sure it's very obvious what they're supposed to do no matter which challenge they find themselves in.

Needing to hover over buttons to understand what they do is also not mobile friendly, which is the main platform I'd see something like this working on.

Do you think a UI that's similar to a standard website would be better? I'm not sure exactly that our ideas of "standard websites" would line up. But... maybe?

Probably they are a bit too childish - however without the cartoon animations it would be less entertaining. I agree that the cartoon story is probably better than nothing. However, it also alienates (haha) your audience. From a high-level, I'd look at similar competitor apps, like Brain Age. They make the story about the player, not a character they're controlling. It's a journey to lower the player's brain age (or something). There might be something to learn from how they position their product in the market after all their years of experience.

Nerdzmasterz

I just tried it. I agree that it looks a bit childish. My only suggestion is to let the players have a little tutorial level at the start that lets them play a demo level that explains how to play.

Overall, it seems like it would be a challenging little app. :)