Embracing digital wellbeing — how we built the first meditation mobile app with content in Romanian
In a hurry? Here’s a short summary of the article: Self-care apps have been the top app trend for 2018. We have built Medusa — a meditation app in Romanian for the local community which is based on the research and knowledge of an acclaimed specialist in hypnosis — dr. Viorel Lupu. It is built on both iOS and Android platforms and our team covered the full development: iOS & Android development, full Ruby on Rails API development and UI/UX design. Tools used for building Medusa app: XCode/Swift, Android Studio/Kotlin, Ruby on Rails, Adobe Photoshop/Sketch.
What is digital wellbeing?
We feel that it’s time to build technology that helps us function better as human beings.
“Digital wellbeing — The capacity to look after personal health, safety, relationships and work-life balance in digital settings” — Jisc Six Elements of Digital Literacy
Digital wellbeing became a movement that is dedicated to using devices, tools, and machines to create a healthy environment for our minds. Embracing it means accepting the fact that innovation is here. We see life through screens and each of our steps can be improved by a gadget. Accepting the digitalisation is the number one condition for our further evolution.
Nevertheless, we shall not be blinded by the vista of the cyber future. Technology should be used to empower us as humans and fuel serenity, fulfilment, and growth against digital stress, anxiety, and extreme workload. It should not be a distraction from the real world, but a good base for personal improvement. The best example is the presence of self-care apps that recently have captured everyone’s attention and have become trendy to use for meditation retreats.
What do the best self-care apps have in common?
Last year Apple has shared with the world the best of 2018 and guess what. The app trend of the year was self-care. No wonder! Hence we know that the golden rule to keep in mind when developing apps is that people are creatures of emotion, not logic. The purpose of these apps is to enable a deep reflection on your human condition and deal with your emotions in a healthy way. Overall, self-care apps have many similarities which portray the human nature in action. Here’s a list of purposes we want to share with you:
#Self-Care Apps
- Relieve stress and anxiety through meditation exercises;
- Offer mindfulness sessions using sounds;
- Are defined by the simplicity of their design;
- Provide tools and guidance for meditation practice;
- They have different meditation modes depending on the user’s mood;
- Give support for the well-being, self-compassion, stress relieving before sleep.
Meditation and mindfulness made simple with Medusa App
We realised that we have many developers, designers, marketing specialists, and even our CEO who are studying or have graduated in psychology courses and colleges. And even those who didn’t can be spotted with a psychology book in their hands. We believe that technology backed by psychological researches can help build digital products that will be tremendously helpful in solving user’s needs.
Medusa is a mindfulness app that helps the Romanian speaking population with meditation and stress relief. How did we come up with this concept?
This mobile app is the result of our internal pitching session and implementation.
Scientifically, it’s proven that listening to audio files in your native language has a much bigger impact on your mind.
For us, it was a good opportunity to merge all our backgrounds and resources in order to build the first meditation app with content in Romanian.
The app concept has been discussed and adjusted together with an eminent specialist in the hypnosis in Romania, dr. Viorel Lupu. The 3 main components that make Medusa app great are the artwork and the eye-soothing design, the meditating exercises using audio recordings in the native language. All this is backed by science and research.
Using a developers wording — Medusa is a mobile app built on Android and iOS platforms. In the process of making it, we have used technologies and tools such as XCode/Swift, Android Studio/Kotlin, Ruby on Rails, Adobe Photoshop/Sketch.
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