Bloom

Overview

During this 2 day hackathon event, my team and I designed an application aimed at empowering children in their emotional through coping methods to calm their minds. As we researched, we decided as a team to have coping skills be the main feature of our application. Our main goals for this design is to encourage children to process and share their emotions, along with strengthening tecacher and student relationships through emotional trust and vulnerability.

My contribution

User research UX design

The team

4 x UX researchers and designers

Year

2022

Process

The first thing we did as a team was research. We wanted to understand the problem space and researched existing solutions. As we gathered reserach, we learned that creating an application with coping methods can really help children to calm their minds.

Outcome

After refining and iterating,  my team and I created a few different options for coping methods such as breathing, counting, coloring, and journaling. We used more images and light colors for a more user-friendly application for children.