The Power of Asking

Ask questions!
to win the 1K Ask King Scholarship from Snapask’s brand campaign.
Year
2019
Category
UI / UX Design
Brand Design
Client
Snapask, Inc.
Industry
EdTech
Role
Lead Designer — Art Direction, Visual Design, Digital Experience

“The Power of Asking” was Snapask’s first global brand campaign, bringing together participants from seven countries to compete for scholarships.As the lead designer, I led the creative direction and digital experience for the campaign, translating the idea “It begins with a question” into an interactive, time-limited experience that connected storytelling, brand, and participation.

UX design

Step.1

Define the goal

As Snapask’s first global brand campaign, we worked closely with the marketing team to define three key measures of success: campaign engagement, brand awareness, and audience growth.

Campaign
engagement

The number of participants in this campaign.

Brand
awareness

SEO search rate of Snapaks after the campaign.

Instagram
followers

The number of followers on our Instagram account.

Step. 2

Interaction model

We designed the campaign around a simple idea: every question contributed to something bigger. Participants shared their questions on social media, with each submission adding $1 to the scholarship fund. The most-liked submission received the final award.The website served as the campaign hub, connecting the experience across seven countries and giving participants a central place to learn, participate, and follow the campaign.

Step. 3

Site structure

To align the design and marketing teams, I created a functional map outlining the website’s key content and interactions. The structure balanced two goals: supporting campaign participation and driving traffic to the Snapask app.

Step. 4

Flow & wireframes

I structured the experience around three key sections: Home introduced the campaign story, Join guided participants through the campaign and live updates, and Training helped them learn how to ask better questions.I then mapped the flow and information hierarchy before moving into visual design

Step. 5

Low-fi prototype

With the structure and content defined, I created a low-fidelity prototype to bring the full campaign experience to life.The prototype helped align the broader Snapask team around the concept, turning early questions into a shared understanding of how the experience would work before moving into visual design.

UI & Visual design

Creatives

8 Stop-motion visuals

We brought the campaign idea to life through eight stop-motion stories inspired by historical figures whose curiosity led to meaningful discoveries.Created as a flexible visual system, the animations became key assets across both the campaign website and social media.

Why did the apple fall from the tree ?

Sir Isaac Newton

Why is the lid jumping and moving ?

James Watt

Why is so exhausting to look at all the official documents ?

Cai Lun

Why do we have to kill people when we are worshiping something ?

Zhu Ge Liang

How did
the toy fly ?

The Wright Brothers

Why did mom think I got her a pair of red socks ?

John Dalton

Dad, did you apply for a patent ?

Hymen L. Lipman

Why does it stick to my clothes ?

George de Mestral

Logotype

We created localized versions of the campaign logotype for Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand, adapting the identity across languages while maintaining a consistent visual system.Each version included multiple color and layout variations for use across digital and campaign materials.

Design system

Working with the brand design team, I developed a visual system that extended Snapask’s core identity into the campaign.We paired Snapask’s signature blue with a broader secondary palette and established a multilingual typography system to keep the experience consistent across markets.