The Guide

The Project

Background: Within mental health care. I want to touch on the topic of depression, There are a lot of different types of depression apps from desktop to mobile. But which one do you need and why are there so many? 

Duration: 2 Weeks (80Hrs)

Tools

  • Figma

  • Pen and Paper

  • Google Doc

Problem:

There are many ways to deal with depression, this website to best help you with which app will help best fit your own personal case of how to deal with it

The Process

1.Empathize

Understanding the Target Audience

Depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think, and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease your ability to function at work and at home.

Target Audience

  • People who are suffering from depression and are too afraid to ask for help 

  • People who have someone they know that are suffering and want to know how to help

Definition of Depression

Depression (also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression) is a common but serious mood disorder. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working

Research

Explantion  

I thought of this case study as someone who is also suffering from depression, when looking for information about this topic the only thing that was found in search was the mental side of the topic. When trying to find another way of helping myself and my friend who is also suffering it was weird to see that all the information was scattered throughout, the internet. There wasn't a single website where you can just find general l information.

Interview Survey

Here are some survey questions that I wanted to know to help me understand how people help themselves and what they do

User Input

User Input asking people I know what they use or what helps them with their Depression

Competitive Analysis

2. Define

UI KIT

3. Ideate

Pen and Paper

Brainstorming Wireframes

Low Fidelity

Here you can see all the progression

High Fidelity

Here you can see all the progression

3. Test/Prototype

Prototype

I was able to ask a few people who are depressed, and friends and family who know people that are depressed. Their thought about this project.

Test result

Asking 15 Participants  to see how the flow of the website was 

  • Was the information useful to you? 

  • Was there anything wrong with it?

  • How was finding information for you?

Asking about flow

10 thought it was useful 5 didnt

What have I learned

This topic was very interesting to read and research but I got a bit lost within all the medical teams and lost a bit of the goal of the reasoning. It was hard because the topic felt very sensitive because the degree can be as light as someone just need to listen to their thought to the severity of where they can be thinking suicidal so it’s hard to say which they are, which is difficult to build just one app for everyone. Because of the range of what needs to be. 

4. Wrap Up

Results

It was different to research this topic, because 

  • There is not just one answer but multiple 

  • A very hard topic to talk about with people 

  • When to easy and try to find an answer for everyone 

  • Didn't have a mental professional to talk to about this project 

  • Should have found a company to work with and build off of their platform 

Wrap up

Find mental professionals/mental companies targeting depression to help them see if this information is valued.

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THANK YOU

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