WELLNESS APP
Get.Mind.Set
A wellness app which provides professional counseling accessible, affordable and convenient. So anyone who struggles with life’s challenges can get help, anytime, anywhere.
CONTEXT
Ask from Client
Yellow Club is an online community-based platform committed to raising mental health awareness in India.
Their vision is a future where mental health is accessible and affordable for one and all.
Currently, they do this by getting requests in their website and schedule sessions using third
party video call applications.
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Yellowclub needs a digital platform to unite their community and make the mental health sessions
more accessible and affordable.
TEAM & TOOLS
How we did it
Team size: 1 UX Designer + 2 developers + 1 stakeholder
2 Agile sprints of 2 weeks
Tools: Figma, Miro, Maze & Zeplin
UX Processes: Survey, Interview, Affinity diagram, Benchmarking, Personas, SWOT Analysis, MOSCOW, User flow, User testing.
Pandemic
User researches and testing are done remotely. Made use of existing surveys to support the research
Sensitive subject
Users were reluctant to share their experiences about their weak times, all interviews are done anonymously.
2 weeks of time
To manage time we made a clear roadmap and used Trello for task mapping.
EMPATHISE
Get a sense of user behavior
The aim of user research was to understand:
1. The pain points of using the current way of scheduling the therapies.
2. The problems faced by people who go through these difficult times.
User research
Participants: People with mental illness and their friends or relatives, therapists
Recruitment: Yelloclub instagram community
Methods: Survey & User interview
Mode: Remote
EMPATHISE
Experience pain points
Following the user research, I sorted notes into themes to detect common pain points. I prioritized issues which really needs to be addressed and can bring impact on decision documentation.
100% of people contacted admitted that they or their immediate family members suffers from mental distress.
43% users takes medical help, 83% are ignorant about digital platforms in mental health.
62% finds it difficult find the right doctors for their issues.
Recommend doctors based on profiling users.
74% fail to define their problems.
A way to express what users feel and feed to therapists.
80% of the time session is not efficiently utilized.
Keep the records and history in profiles and feed therapists before sessions.
EMPATHISE
Persona
I comprehend the user bahaviours in Ravi, who is an IT employee who suffers with depression and anxiety.
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We are designing for people of mental distress.
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Age group of 13- 45
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Moderate -high tech savvy
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Need a level of trust
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Failed to understand their reason for mental distress
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Traditional mental health system failed to serve him due to pandemic.
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Difficulty in finding the right doctor
DEFINE
Competitor analysis
I researched potential competitors. Installed their apps and analyzed how they work and benchmarked the features
Benchmarking
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Video sessions
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Authentication & User profile
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Feedback system
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Session booking
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Scheduling sessions
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Search for doctors
DEFINE
The problem
I contemplated 3 major pain points user has:
1. Fails to find the right practitioner.
2. Difficulty in defining their issues .
3. Underutilization of session time.
Hypothesis
People with mental distress need an accessible and affordable platform which help them define their problems, provide them seamless therapy sessions and better utilize their time they spend on the platform.
Hypothesis
Documenting decisions are crucial for organizations to leverage maintainability and transparency.
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In addition user demands for an intuitive tool to manage data for audits.
I believe that creating an integrated digital platform which consumes current document inventories and employee data, with intuitive filters and search mechanism can increase customer experience.
IDEATE
Concept of MVP
Bringing up a MVP addressing the user requirements and benchmarked features was a challenge.
User profiling #1
User needs to track their history to share with the practitioners before the sessions to better utilize the session time
Practitioner recommendation #2An onboarding system with skippable questions to understand the user and recommend the list of right practitioners
Remote counselling #3
User should be able to book a session, a session calendar
Success metrics
Early prototype testing: Favorable feedback from Yellowclub community after initial prototype testing.
Download rate: Yellowclub expects 5000 downloads on the first 2 months of app launch.
Usability Score: Measuring prototype with Maze, measuring bouncing rate, midclick's and task completion time
App rating: Measure quality of service at a 5 point scale.
DEVELOP
Architecture of the solution
Userflow: Defining how user will be navigating through the system
Mid-fi prototypes and early testing
I got many honest feedbacks about the design. The most prominent was about the fonts and data clutter in registration form.
DEVELOP
Design system & Hi-fi prototype
Ability to define themselves
Breathable space
Make use of full screen.
Search for practitioner
RETROSPECTION
Takeaways
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Agile mindset and working in design sprints.
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​Insight into wellness industry.
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Advantages of design system.
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​Advantages of early testing.
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​High fi makes sense only at the end of a complex UX/UI process
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Users like to go with conventions, which reduces a lot of confusion and takes less learning time.