Easy for people to maintain their mental health and daily release time.
1 Months ( From research to mockup)
Product Designer - User Research. UI UX Design. Develop
Because of the COVID-19. Global work mode totally different than before, the pandemic still really worse in every country. 70 % of professionals work remotely at least one day a week, while 53 percent work remotely for at least half of the week.
I have some friends who work from home for few months already. I found they have some mental health problems. Mostly anxiety, stress, depression, insomnia, and they are not easy to release pressure. Also, many countries still lockdown or have a high risk to stay outside doing exercise.
In turns of these reasons. I want to make a project for that. Focus on the work from home people who need to keep their mental health and body health on the standard. I want to develop an app no need any fitness equipment, simple to start, so I choose yoga to reduce anxiety every day.
There are many apps such as Daily Yoga on the market. However, these apps tend to focus on different types of yoga and show yoga poses. Not much focus on users' mental health and their feeling. It's difficult to identify how yoga help.
Research from medical news and article, quite more mental health symptoms relative to heart palpitations and rapid breathing. So it's necessary to measure the user's heart rate to check for the effect of yoga is negative or positive. And compare the difference before and after yoga.
I collect feedback from the Top 5 yoga apps in the App store. And also interviewing five potential users, I analyzed the data. Get the following conclusion :
I consolidated the research result and created two personas based on what we learned from the research. It helped to understand who we're designing for and what would be the most important things we should stick on.
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When people use yoga app, they saw many types of yoga but they didn’t know which is best for them. Most of users knew yoga good for emancipate pressure. But they can’t evaluate when they need to do yoga and how much benefit it brings to them.
We can see in the feedback and interview, app’s feature lack few things, speed controller for different level users, and separate video and audio let user can listen what they want, last one is make Mac anD PC version cause phone screen too small for some users.
To determine user’s stress level needs to gain inside user’s mind. And keep them regularly have relaxation habits.
human being in the stress, always very intense and high precaution. How to make trust with users let them express their feeling without retention will be challenged.
Develop phone and computer versions base on the same concept.
human being in the stress, always very intense and high precaution. How to make trust with users let them express their feeling without retention will be challenged.
Before I start visual design and creating layout. I try to figure out what would be the logical architecture that user easily to use and with good navigation.
After finishing UI Flow and Information architecture. I design kept the first version of the product simple, as I wanted there to be only one clear reason as to why users would use Yoga Heartto relieve their pressure using a heart monitor, yoga, and psychological assessment.Too many functionalities can confuse the users. More features can be added as the product matures.
By explaining why each piece of personal information is needed, user are more likely to trust the app with their mental health data too.
Let user to benchmark their app experience with inspirations from other users.
Help new users can quickly get started. Measure reminder can cater to both inexperienced and experienced users. Allow users to tailor frequent actions.
Communicating the current measure state allows users to feel in control of the system, take appropriate actions to reach their goal.
Intuitive see body last 7 days health level, allow users to take control of body and heart health. Encourage users to maintain their health by showing various sentences.
Allow users to export data have a copy.
Normally yoga apps in market provide various of yoga. To keep the app simple, around 4-6 types yoga enough for user.
Allow user to adjust the yoga speed to fit their need. Provide mute music, let users can listen to what they like.
Base on user data, customize user’s playlist.
Encourage users to write their feeling or even take pictures on their yoga time to relieve thoughts in mind and record their exercise.
This test is especially suitable for people who want to learn more about their stress level. Since then, efficiency has improved and mental health has been enhanced.
Taking full ownership of the work helps me deeply think through each step in the design process, and ultimately bring the idea from conception to execution. I learned two most important things in the process:
the product we deliver to people should be meaningful, that necessary to deep understanding of what people really need.
At first, I’m not really sure how long it’s take for entire project. I discovered and define user needs, but everything gets more complicated when design, testing, and implementation meet together. At same time, I try to break down the tasks into pieces and develop them one by one.
I follow design process from understanding user to structure function map and UI flow them I sketch layout, finally make Lo-fi to Hi -fi wireframe and prototype.Usability Test still running now. I will update as soon as when I complete.
© Emily Lin 2022
© Emily Lin 2022
