🚨 Pulse – Proactive Burnout Detector and Support

SpurHacks 2025 – Vibe-Driven Developers

🧠 About the Project

Pulse is a conceptual, privacy-first burnout detection and support system designed for remote and hybrid teams. It integrates seamlessly into Slack and uses mood check-ins, after-hours behavior, and recovery data to surface early burnout signals — empowering managers to intervene before it’s too late.

💡 Inspiration

We’ve all seen the impact of burnout — among classmates, coworkers, and ourselves. Remote work makes it nearly impossible to read emotional cues, and check-ins often come too late. We wanted to build something that respects privacy but still helps teams stay ahead of burnout.

The idea: What if we treated emotional well-being like a real metric — visual, respectful, and actionable?

🧪 How We Built It

This is a fully realized UI/UX case study built entirely in Figma.
We focused on designing a system that feels frictionless, human-centered, and emotionally intelligent. The design includes:

Over 15 high-fidelity screens with realistic flows
Slack integration concepts for daily mood check-ins
Dashboards for employees and managers
AI-powered burnout forecasting and intervention simulation
Privacy-first UX architecture

Every element was crafted for clarity, emotional safety, and usability in enterprise environments.

📈 What We Learned

How to design mental health-focused systems that balance trust and transparency
The importance of data visualization in emotional UX
Crafting interfaces that serve both individual users and organizational leadership
How to translate workplace psychology into visual UI flows

🚧 Challenges

Designing predictive analytics around something as complex and sensitive as burnout
Creating dashboards that feel insightful, not overwhelming
Ensuring our design respected privacy while still offering actionable insights
Defining flows for two very different users: employees and HR managers