Inspiration
Due to the fast-paced nature of college life, students often forget to care about their personal wellbeing. We want to create a web app to help students develop good wellness habits, with the intention to eventually incorporate small tasks into their daily activities and improve their mental and physical health.
What it does
Our web app aims to help college students find new ways of improving their daily lives by suggesting small goals every day, such as finding new study spots on campus, having lunch with a new friend, and spending time outdoors. By uploading a picture, it helps close friends keep each other accountable in completing their goals, and seeing other friends completing their own goals will serve as an additional source of motivation for users.
How we built it
We conducted interviews with several of our peers to gather input on how their sleep, eating habits, exercise, social life, academics, and social media habits influence their well-being. We also asked about their morning and nighttime routines as well as how much time they spend outdoors and based on their responses, we designed the app to help them make changes to those parts of their lives. We created a wireframe for the basic layout of the app and then decided on the main colors and text fonts we wanted to use. From there we used the wireframe as a template and built onto that by adding in all of the features of the app.
Challenges we ran into
Students of different disciplines and universities face different struggles, so it was difficult to think of a solution that addressed their main concerns. However, we were able to find a common pattern throughout all of our interviews - all students were stressed due to the academic pressures from school. We chose to address this issue by adding fun elements to school through our daily goals, and sharing this accomplishment with friends encourages users to persevere through their academic work.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Since this was our first designathon, we found that the time constraint was extremely challenging. However, we are extremely proud of how much we were able to accomplish in such a short amount of time.
Built With
- figma
