Stasis Mental Health App

Project Goal/Objective

 Stasis is an ideal app that is helpful to universally anyone. It takes into consideration all the different ways that someone may express their emotions and seek comfort to address them. While many mental health apps are successful at helping their users, this app wants to create a welcoming experience even to users who don't usually look to an app for help. Depending on what you need to feel better, the app will have a range of surface and deeper-level experiences, and that can look different from one day to the next. 

Research

 To gather my research on what people want to see in an ideal mental health app, I sent out a Google form with questions to reply to. For inspiration on app layout, color palette, and other decisions, I collected posts on Pinterest, Behance, and Dribbble. Additionally, I took note of the design decisions made by apps already well established, including Headspace, Calm, and others. 

Personas

Based on the research collected, a lot of people choose not to use mental health apps, because they seem to lack enough action to get someone out of feeling low. Instead, people often go to apps specifically created for exercise or music. Users would like to see apps that don’t seem too spiritual, but rather more proactive with tangible benefits.  Among the suggestions were paying close attention to usability/accessibility, a streaks system, factual resources backed by scientific facts, mind games for distraction, a space for interaction like comments and Q&A. Below is a graph of responses to the question, "What functions would you want it [an ideal mental health app] to have?"