BACKGROUND
Defined by the World Health Organization, Depression is a common illness worldwide. Around 3.8% of the human population are suffering from depression. As a previous depression patient, I went through the healing process with my psychologist. From this personal experience, I noticed how mood could be affected easily in daily events. Having a product to trace people's mood and provide entertainment based on our mood necessary for us to adjust our emotions.
DESIGN BRIEF
Based on my personal experience, I was inspired to create an App called MOOD that traces user's daily mood changing. At the same time, the App could be accessed on Virtual Reality products by providing scenes for users to relieve their stress and be relaxed when they are in good mood.
OBJECTIVE
While I was going through the healing process as a depression patient, I got the information from my psychologist that depression symptoms would appear if people always try to oppress their feelings. However, for people who are living with roommates or not willing to share their thoughts with family and friends, they preferred to digest their emotions by themselves. In long term, the lack of relieving stress could cause mental issues. In the App MOOD, the access yo virtual reality world for users to express emotions could provide users privacy and personalized experience. I hope this App could help people who are fighting with depression or prevent people to be depressed due to the lack of relief.
User Persona
Challenges
JY, 22 years old
" I want to be myself and not hold my emotions in all the time."
Bio
J is a student. She is always a quiet person in the crowd. He enjoyed entertaining himself through virtual reality.
Motivations
Convenience * * *
Personalization * * * * *
Social * *
Goals
Have a place to relax after along day
Relieve stress when not in a good mood
Pain Points
Don't have enough budget to travel around or hangout with friends when being sad.
Don't have a lot of time to pay attention to mental health.
Frequently Used Apps
Ideation
Design Objective
Provide users opportunities to track their moods
Create a personalized Virtual Reality world for users
Raise users' awareness to mental illness
How
The product would be designed as a Mobile App that users could check in to record their mood without wearing the VR headset.
In the App, it will be connected into users' personalized virtual reality world after users press to enter the relief relaxing mode
The App would provide two scenes in VR world—one for relaxing, one for relieving stress.
Product Functionalities
Tracing users' emotion changes in the mood calendar after they input their daily moods
Providing a relief scene for users to relieve their stress base on a common defense mechanism in psychology sublimation.
Providing a relax scene for users to enjoy their happiness base on how color could psychologically affect people's emotions
Information Architecture
User Test
To iterate the App design based on user's opinions, I brainstormed 15 App pages and sketched them as paper prototypes. Then 5 people were invited to test the paper prototypes. After receiving their views about App, I drew the first digital draft for the main sections of the App.
Wireframe
Final Prototype
