olive. - Your Mental Health Companion

Objective: The objective is to develop a mental health app that supports users in journaling, organizing therapy appointments and medication, setting goals, and fostering healthier habits.

Project Type

Individual Project

CareerFoundry

Deliverables

User Interviews - User Research

Usability Testing

Lo-Fi & High-Fi Prototyping

Tools

Figma

Adobe Illustrator

Duration

1 month

EMPATHIZE

Primary Research - User Interviews

Four main themes of focus

  1. What participants currently do to maintain their mental health

  2. Helpful/desired features in tools participants use to maintain their mental health

  3. Areas of focus/general traits of mental health in participants lives

  4. Obstacles that cause participants to lose motivation to maintain mental health

Opportunities

  • Notification/reminders for Medications and Therapy

  • Narrow down a niche for the app

  • Find a way to cater to those who rely on Primary Health Care for reminders

DEFINE & IDEATE

User Persona Creation

“How might we create a mental health app that covers all the primary features needed for those with varying mental health goals while also remaining focused in app structure and content”

Information Architecture - Sitemap

Parent Pages:

  1. Journaling

  2. Goal Creation

  3. Therapy Appointments

  4. Medication Tracking

  5. Additional Mental Health Resources

DESIGN SOLUTIONS & PROTOTYPING

Low-Mid Fidelity Wireframes

Usability Testing - Mid Fidelity Prototype

Insights gained:

  1. Needed more visual aid, all the text content blur together creating navigational confusion

  2. Calendar was helpful, but repetitive. Calendar was also difficult to see in the monthly view.

  3. Journals are important to users, they tended to navigate towards showing interest in that feature the most

  4. More encouraging and friendly jargon would be appreciated.

High Fidelity Prototype

UI DESIGN STYLE DOCUMENTATION

Reflection & Next Steps

  • Usability Testing

    Due to the nature of this project & personal circumstances I was unable to have access to usability testing, so in my next phases, I would like to create prototypes in order to confirm my user flow chart.

    Then with that information, I would be able to make changes to the high fidelity prototype in order to make the website more suitable for launch.

  • Feature Implementation

    If given more time, I would like to explore and expand on community based features for the app along with a more fleshed out prototype for users to test.

    ACCESSIBLITY (A11y)

    I would also like to explore the option of implementing accessibility features on the website such as UserWay in order to make the site more equitable.