Blanket

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  Impact vs Feasibility Chart

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  Brainstorming

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  Empathy Mapping

1. Describe the problem your solution addresses? In May 2020, 49% of adults in the U.S. reported depression symptoms. 27% of parents reported worsening mental health. During the worldwide pandemic, many people are undergoing mental stress— parents working from home with kids, healthcare professionals sacrificing their safety and time, young adults feeling hopeless about their future, etc. One of the root causes of their anxiety is a lack of a destress solution and an overwhelming amount of incoming news about the pandemic. For instance, our solution proposes an app that provides a filtered news feed that allows you to read the information that may not be dangerous for a depressed person, useful for a busy person, or just focused on the emergency news which would be enticing for a physician. In addition, we offer a journal option that helps you self-reflect and write down your feelings instead of keeping them inside.

2. Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? Our app Blanket works like a safety blanket for the target users where they can feel safe from the outside world. They can hold on to it as a one-stop app to survive this challenging time, rather than having to download multiple apps to improve well-being. Users can filter the incoming news they will get on their feed so they can still stay informed in case any emergency enforcement is made for the pandemic. Users can also write down their feelings in a simple journal so that they don’t keep thinking all night long. We created value propositions by identifying stakeholders, building 4 personas: healthcare workers, quarantined people, busy workers, and young adults/teenagers. We then created empathy maps to consider what they say, do, think, and feel and identify their pains and gains. We then chose features to implement with impact vs feasibility chart.

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• figma
• miro