Clarity: Providing stress relief through individualized tracking and mapping.
Overview
Role
UX Designer, Brand Designer, Researcher, Facilitator, Presenter
Team
Ben Garvey, Jillian Brandon (Design), Jamie Jenkins (Business), Matt Cuento (Development), Sam Rahman (Development)
Tools
Figma, Illustrator, Pen and Paper, Whiteboard, Google Slides
Timeline
24 hours (Hackathon)
Challenge
Young professionals find it difficult to take appropriate and effective measures to combat their stress because they don't understand their personal triggers nor personal alleviators. Current solutions are ineffective because they require a high level of user input and consistency when mental clarity is low.
Solution
Our bio-integrated app helps stressed young professionals who want to improve their mental health by mapping their stress to their activities and providing suggestions for positive behavioral changes.
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Research
Methods
Competitive analysis through online resources and using apps like Headspace, Sanvello and Apple's Health and Fitness apps.
In-person interviews of young professionals and college students at local coffee shops.
Insights
Stress effects everyone, but each individual's experience is different.
Many people look to their phone to de-stress, yet find that it often worsens their mindset.
A solution needs to be simple, clean and easy to use.
A solution needs to provide long-term benefits, rather than quick-fixes.
Persona
Framework Sketches
Final Designs
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Takeaways
This hackathon was an incredibly fun, exhausting, challenging, growing experience. Since it was such a condensed schedule, there are tons of features, aspects that we would have loved to expand on.
Our main goal was to create an application that could monitor bio-responses and from that, determine stress level, assigning an easy to digest indicator from 1-10. The application would pair with a user's calendar and then begin tracking which activities are causing or relieving stress. The app would then give recommendations for individualized relief plans.
In our time-frame, we focused on the critical feature of our application: the weekly review. The weekly review would give a breakdown of the user's week and stress response. They are given the ability to add activities to their calendar to provide more accurate stress-tracking. The weekly review could function usefully by itself, but we would like to elements like a log-in sequence (duh), profile, and community interaction elements.