Bestie
Overview
Description
Bestie is a prototype for a mental health mobile app that is primarily targeted towards students and young adults. It focuses on helping them deal with stress and anxiety, as well as boosting their confidence and self-esteem. Unlike other popular existing apps, Bestie offers a fully personalised and customizable experience and assists its users via various techniques, such as meditation, breathing exercises, professional therapy sessions and more.
Tools
- Figma
- Miro
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
Process
- User Research
- Semi-Structured Interviews
- Competitor Analysis
- User Journey Maps
- Information Architecture
- UI Design
- Illustrations
- User Testing
Research
One out of four people in the world face mental health problems at least once in their life. Students especially face a lot of challenges and stressful situations, which have a significant effect on their learning and motivation.
At the beginning of the project, both primary and secondary research have been conducted to better understand the problem and come up with a solution for it. The conducted interviews with the target audience provided insights about current mental health apps and their flaws, which was later backed up by the competitor analysis.
Personas and User Journey Maps
Based on the research findings, three personas were created, as well as three user journey maps.
Design
Wireframes
I have created the wireframes for most of the screens in the app in Figma. A few of them can be seen in the image below.
UI Design
Once the wireframes were completed, I have started designing the high-fidelity prototype of the app in Figma. The design includes the log in screens, questionnaire for new users, all of the main pages and customisation options for the progress plant. Furthermore, I have created and animated the designs for 2 versions of the app – one, for new user who have never used the app and another for existing users (this version shows the user’s progress, their faviorite activities, any past therapy sessions, friends, etc). The fully interactive prototype can be accessed on via this link – Bestie.
Custom Illustrations
I have designed all of the illustrations and graphics for Bestie in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, as well as the app’s logo (featured in the top right corner on the image below).
User testing
Once the high-fidelity prototype has been created, user testing was conducted to gain feedback from the target audience and identify any potential points for improvement. The overall feedback was very positive and indicated, that if released, the app has high potentitial to become successful and popular on the market.
Additional Links
The fully interactive prototype can be accessed on via this link – Bestie.
The overview of the project with the design folio can be viewed on Behance.
If you would like to watch the demonstration of the project, you can go to the YouTube video.
