A quiet place to ask.
Dhammamakka (ธรรมมรรคา) is a Dhamma question-and-answer site in Thai. People search an archive of answered questions, and every answer shows where it came from.
This project is still in progress. The designs shown here are working drafts of the homepage, app and chatbot, and may change before launch.
At a glance
- Client
- Anonymous client, Thailand
- Brief
- Make a large archive of Dhamma questions and answers easy and calm to search, on the web and on a phone.
- Designed so far
- a) Homepage design
b) App screens
c) Chatbot design - Crafts
- Web & app design · Chatbot design · UI · Content structure
Calm, like still water.
A homepage built around one question box and answers you can trust.
The problem
The answers already existed, written over years in reply to real questions from practitioners. What was missing was a way in. A visitor with one worry, about restlessness while sitting or about karma, needed to find the right answer quickly and trust where it came from.
- Search firstOne question box at the top of every page, written in plain language.
- Sources alwaysEvery answer carries its reference, so readers can check it for themselves.
- A dedicationThe site ends with a dedication of merit, as the client wished.
Lotus Pond
The look is called Lotus Pond: soft teal water fading into lotus pink, rounded shapes, and slow rings that ripple out behind the search bar. It felt gentle without feeling old, and it kept working on a small screen, where most people would read.
From a question to its answer.
Three screens in Thai, the language the archive is written in.
Home, category, answer
The home screen opens on search, with four categories below it: practice techniques, teachings and karma, emotions and suffering, and daily life and right livelihood. A category lists its questions with their own search. Each answer page shows the original question and the reply in separate labelled blocks, its source underneath, and two actions at the bottom: dedicate merit, or share.
An assistant that will not guess.
Answers only from the archive
On a subject like this, a confident wrong answer does real harm. So the assistant answers only from questions already in the archive, and every reply ends with a card linking to the full answer it came from. When nothing matches, it says so plainly and offers to send the question to the team instead.
Have something in mind?
Tell me what you’re hoping to make. A few lines is plenty. I’ll reply within two business days.