School Project 2 — Hingama — How to boost people’s mood status, help people to be more mentally healthy

In my time at Georgia Institute of Technology HCI, I have been participating in several projects where I work as the UX Researcher and Designer.

Three developed projects of mine are in my portfolio, but definitely, there are many more.

And I would like to share them with you periodically.

Project 1 Seondbuy — Build trust and effectiveness between buyers and sellers

Project 2 Hingama — Boost people’s mood status, help people to be more mentally healthy (this article)

Redesign 1 Google Lens — help travelers have a better smooth experience of shopping overseas

Project 2 — Hingama

Hingama, in a nutshell, is to help people recover from negative mood status.

The moment I came with the idea to empower individuals to curate mood, protect them from anxiety, depression and any other negative mood status, all teammates immediately resonate with me considering the several tragedies that happened recently on the campus.

Hi, we want you to be happy.

The Problem Space

“Depression will be the second leading cause of disease by 2020”

-WHO

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression affects more than 300 million people worldwide. Symptoms include feelings of intense sadness that last for extended periods, loss of interest in everyday activities, headaches, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and sleep disturbances. In the most severe cases, it can lead to suicide.

This is the very serious issue in today’s fast-paced world where stress levels are excessively high and affect people in all age groups and walk of life. Most people don’t even realize they need help or have time to reflect upon the negative effect this problem is having on the quality of their lives.

Objectives

1. Help users who are capable of (willing to) self-modify their mood status via various approaches
2. Help users to have in-person communications with trusted friends

Overview

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Enable users to log their moods and visualize them to understand and self-check their mood status.

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Motivate users through the use of media recommendations like cheerful music, inspirational talks, motivational quotes

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Allow users to record their achievements, aspirations, and things that they feel grateful for.

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Objectively understand user’s mental well-being without intruding their privacy.

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Help users to reach out to trusted contacts for help

Value Proposition

Storyboards

Tom is new here and Hingama helped him to recover from low emotion when there is no person there for you

Good memories help the user to recall great memories, thus have the confidence to go through current difficulties

Katy has been feeling low for a long time, she is very sad but reluctant to ask for help. Hingama detects her mood status and informed her friends for her

Interactive Prototype

Check the Invision Version Interactive Prototype.

Participating Competition

I also designed a poster for the annual Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC).

Thank you for reading! If you enjoyed this case study or have any feedback, ping me at my Email or connect via LinkedIn. And please follow me on Medium👋

Note: This is a project from the class Mobile Application and Service. This case study was done in Sep-Nov 2018.