nafisakhan-appdesignblog

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

3 UI Directions

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

Scenarios & Tasks

Scenario #1:

You are feeling like your moods have shifting often throughout the week.

Task:

Using the emotion tracker part of this journaling app, you choose from the 5 different moods which emotion you felt that particular day. You can also look at your log and see how your mood has been fluctuating or staying consistent.

Scenario #2:

You are feeling overwhelmed with school and need a moment to catch your breath and relax.

Task:

Using the app, you choose one of the prompts to answer from the home screen and jot down anything that comes to mind.

Scenario #3:

You want to relieve some stress and are not able to type/write your prompt response.

Task:

Using the audio recording option of this app, you can speak into your phone’s mic and talk about your emotions, thoughts, anything you want, and save the recording and access it later in your log.

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

Digital Wireframe

https://www.figma.com/file/CS4DIXRefXLeLmJsCi46qU/App-Design-Wireframe?node-id=0%3A1

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

Week 7 Homework

Wireflow Sketches:

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

Week 6 Homework

User Flow

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

Homework

Journey Map

Personas

Storyboard

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

Week 5 Homework

Secondary Research

Journaling for a lot of people is a form of therapy, a way to start the day or a way to wind down after a long day. People use a journal to track their mood, write down anything that comes to mind, or just use it as an outlet to get away from the stresses of everyday life. A way to jot down anything without having to fear judgement from anyone else. 

There has been research conducted where people believe that journaling can help increase brain function. Along with the many features of this app that has hopes to attract the user, this can be another reason they may want to use it.

After conducting the interviews about this potential app, the biggest concern was about the privacy features. Journaling can be a very personal thing and people would not want others to read and look through their app. Most apps on the market do not have a password-protected option which is something that is an important part of this app along with the other benefits of journaling.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentID=4552&ContentTypeID=1

https://richardstep.com/self-help/increase-brain-function-by-journaling-your-thoughts/

Insights & Solutions

People prefer to keep this app a private experience. - Solution: Make this app password-protected that will always prompt you to add a password before entering the app.

People may not have anything to write about but they still want to journal. - Solution: Have a set of prompts where they can answer and write anything they want, or buzzwords so they can sketch/draw whatever inspired them based on the word.

Some find that tracking their emotions/symptoms help with pinpointing the problems and learning to work on that issue at hand. - Solution: Have a section for people to track their emotions everyday and show the data after the end of every week or month, maybe even a year.

Not everyone has the ability to type or draw something by hand for an array of reasons. - Solution: Make it more accessible to everyday user by adding a voice note section where people can record their entries.

Feature Priority

Passcode/lock screen before entering app

Prompts/buzzwords to answer and sketch

Voice recording section to make it more accessible

Affirmations either in the app or push notification

Mood/emotion tracker

Competitive Analysis 

Apps already on the market:

Five Minute Journal

Diarium

Daylio

Moodnotes

Day One Journal

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

Interviews for Potential App

Zuiarah I.

1. Yes, I went to a fashion high school and I’m very passionate of sewing and sketching. I still do sketches in my diary of croquis with new outfits and sometimes I color it. 2. I sleep, haha. No but I cook and watch television. 3. It is usually in increments of time but around 2 hours. 4. I don’t have time especially with classes and it’s all cramped together, so I don’t really have a chance to do anything creative. 5. If I were to have some more free time and not so busy with school. 6. I color, I have these coloring apps on my iPad and I doodle on there. I used to journal but I stopped because I was anxious someone would find it. 7. Just the creative control it gives me because I could literally do anything I want. 8. Yes, very much so because it’s so convenient and it is private and only for you. It has so much more options and you can make time for it anyway and anywhere because you can always have it with you. 9. Yes, definitely. 10. Yes, but it’s hard to find any good ones. 11. A personal experience because when it’s social you kind of feel like it’s more of a competition with others. 12. A section to maybe make recordings. 13. That it’s not private enough because anyone could open your phone and find it. So maybe adding something for privacy.

Dania M.

1. Yeah. 2. No, not really because I don’t have time. Usually if I’m stressed it’s because I’m working a lot. I draw when I’m bored, though. 3. If I were to do activities, I spend about two hours on it. 4. Yeah usually time constraints with work. 5. Working less, managing my time, balancing between chores/errands, balancing out time and chores. 6. Yes, I sketch and draw in my free time. 7. It clears your mind and having a finished product or coming up with new ideas/working on your skills helps you progress. 8. Prompts for sketching would make me want to do it. 9. Yes, for prompts definitely that would be cool and helpful to engage in. 10. Yeah like quotes or anything positive I would want a personal experience because I would want some thing to spark my own ideas, kind of like pinterest.  11. Another part could be like random shuffle words, something personal kind of like a quick type of app. If it were to be social, maybe the prompts could have results under it and other people could post their result and what their take on it was. 12. Shuffle/buzz words, prompts, lists, share button. For beginners it could have helpful words to draw. 13. For me it would definitely have to have prompts because I do not exactly journal. It’s more about getting ideas because sometimes you get stuck on like things to draw or make.

Nusaiba K.

1. Yes, definitely. 2. Yes, I start cleaning and doing chores around the house.  3. Maybe like an hour to an hour at a half at most. It depends on how much I have to do. 4. Usually if I can’t do it, it’s because I do not have the time to do it because of work. 5. Yeah if I had some help. 6. No. 7. N/A 8. If I had an easier access to journaling, I would. So, I can quickly jot down my thoughts. 9. Yes, it can get my creative juices flowing. 10. Yes, they do. 11. I think it should have the ability to do both, so, if you feel like you really like what you wrote will impact someone, you could maybe share it with them. 12. Maybe it can have a lot of features where people can write and share their stories. Maybe some crossword puzzles? Haha, I don’t know. 13. If the personal things I wrote got shared by an accident. So privacy is very important for me in this because it is personal.

Saudia B.

1. Fairly creative. 2. Not really, but sometimes I try to listen to music to calm down. 3. About 15 minutes. 4. Yes, sometimes it feels like I have no time to even carve out 5 minutes to calm myself down. 5. If I was more conscious of my time. Apps could be helpful too because of the convenience. 6. No. 7. N/A. 8. Yes for sure!  9. Yes, sounds so fun and relaxing. 10. Yes! 11. Personal experience, or maybe if it was more social then there could be an option to post anonymously. 12. Creative and thought provoking prompts that could help me get my mind off of what is making me stressed. Or the prompt could help me think through my feelings and break them down into smaller issues that I can tackle. 13. Nothing I can think of, it’s sounds very interesting!

Yeraimyz S.

1. Yes. 2. Yes, I tend to game a lot on my PC. 3. For about 3-5 hours. 4. N/A 5. N/A 6. Yes I do I tend to sketch.  7. Writing and sketching whatever comes to mind honestly.   8. Yeah it would be way easier to keep with me.  9. Yeah they should be in different categories like tabs on the app. 10. Yes. 11. Sure. 12. The affirmations should come with cute doodles as well to keep within the theme of sketching. 13. There should be a privacy setting and one part where you could post your journal to the public.

(first 3 interviews done in person, last 2 were done through google forms)

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

HW #2- Response to Article

(Article: “How to think differently about doing good as a creative person” by Omayeli Arenyeka)

This article was a very interesting and enlightening read, it is so common that we see “Creative Savior Complex” in our society, I just never realized there was an actual term for it. Doing anything good for a person or group of people, there is always the question of; “Am I doing this because I genuinely care about the situation at hand?” Or is it “Am I only doing this because makes myself feel better as a person?” Omayeli Arenyeka put into words exactly what that is like and how to avoid CSC in our work. It is extremely important to de-center yourself and center the community that has been affected. Instead of thinking what do you get out of it, think about what the community will get out of your work.

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

HW #2- Interview Questions for Potential App

1. Do you consider yourself a creative person?

2. Do you do any kind of activities if you’re stressed or anxious? What are they?

3. How much time do you spend doing these activities?

4. If you do not do any activities, is it because you cannot find time to do it? Or another reason?

5. Is there anything that you think would make it easier for you to engage in these activities?

6. Do you journal/sketch/write in your free time?

7. If you do, what about journaling/sketching/writing do you like the most?

8. Do you think having an app for journaling would make you more inclined to use it if you can access it from anywhere on your phone?

9. Do you feel that having a specific app to journal/sketch/answer fun prompts would be something that sparks your interest?

10. Do you feel that words of affirmations help you in times of stress?

11. Since journaling can be a very personal thing, would you want to keep the app a personal experience type app or would you want it to be more of a social app?

12. What is something you would like to see on an app like this?

13. What is something you may be reluctant about while using an app like this?

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

HW #2- Class Interview Q&A

(Interviewing Liz Snyder)

Hello! Tell me about yourself - live alone? With family? Do you have a pod/bubble? I live with my family. I pretty much see my family and I have a few friends where I basically know where they’ve been, so I feel comfortable seeing them.

Are you an artist or designer? Not really. I’m very new to design so I wouldn’t consider myself either.

What has your last 24 hours been like? Pretty busy, a lot of homework.

What kinds of activities/hobbies do you do? I’ve been coding, I exercise, watch movies, and read.

What skills would you want to learn? (Aspirations and Motivations) That’s a good question. I mean I guess I would like to know how to draw better, I’m a very bad illustration and I need to do that for a lot of classes, so.

Time frame - how often do you spend on these activities? It varies, I don’t do them all everyday but I would say an hour to two hours. Depending on what I’m doing.

How do you generate ideas? What inspired you to create? Well I am very new to coding and I am taking a class in it. They gave us the idea for what we are creating but I came up with the design of it myself so I haven’t really come up with the ideas.

Social vs solitary app?  Social app.

Committee or anonymous creation? Avatar and meet new people? Or do you hang on this app with people you know? Or alone? I would prefer committee and I would like to meet new people. I could hangout with people.

Has the pandemic changed how you create? I guess so because I have been learning a lot, more about design, so yes.

[nafisakhan-appdesignblog]

HW #1- Potential App Idea

Journaling App:

With this potential app idea the hope is to get people to write about their day and how they might be feeling in the journal. Personally, when I have had a stressful anxiety-filled day, I like to journal and draw little illustrations to take my mind off of things. Sometimes I may be away from home and do not have the chance to do it if my journal is not with me, so the idea behind this app is to make it portable so that you can always keep it with you as well as making it accessible to the daily user who may not have the means to do so. This app will have a lot of different features. Some of the features that I would like to include in the app are; a daily notification with an affirmation or message to encourage the user, daily fun and exciting prompts that you can answer on the app, an actual journal page where you can write about anything you want, and a section where you can track your mood every day. There will be other features on the app or features that I may want to change around a bit more but this is what I have thought about including so far.