Bloom is an emotional wellness application designed to help users monitor and improve their mood through guided journaling. Users decide what they want to track or improve in their life. With a combination of tools, they input data on their daily activities to obtain insightful patterns that enable them to make positive changes.
Created during the midst of the pandemic, this project was inspired by the stresses of social isolation and benefits of mindfulness in our daily life. The on-boarding experience eases users into the habit of journaling. The interface is designed to be minimal and simple, to cultivate a feeling of peace when users use the application.
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To create an experience that is geared to help users monitor and improve their mental wellness through guided journalling.
To encourage adding mindful practices in our daily routine to analyse and improve mental well-being.
01 Crafting an interesting on-boarding experience.
02 Helping users build habits with useful prompts and suggestions.
03 A platform that allows users to review their progress and seek steps on improving certain lifestyle practice
The following products range from books to journals to applications. Each of the examples address specific aspects of mindfulness and mental well-being.
In order to study the application of the product, personas and user scenarios were considered to better aid the design process and development.
The following insights are from the open and closed card sorting activity conducted within the demographic target group.
A basic flow of how the information architecture should proceed was mapped out from the data points gathered from the card sorting activity
Based on the card sorting and user research conducted, the following user flows were mapped out.
Initiation helps users enter the application with a calm state of help
The Onboarding experience allows the users to get an understanding of what to expect crafted with colourful illustrations and friendly copy.
The application allows users decide what aspect of their life they would like to improve
Users can define the metrics they would like to track and manually input data into the app.
Ability to track daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress with guided messages to keep the user encouraged.
The application provides feedback and additional resources depending on user performance over time.
The user also has access to a visualisation of their mindfulness journey so far in their individual profile section.
In the following slides, there is an analysis of usability testing conducted by two people.
From the usability testing, there were many useful features to be considered :
I also wanted to incorporate the ability to share progress to friends and family members - this was a feature that I added in later as a part of a related project.
