Something that inspirated us is stigma around mental health in our society currently. We want SHADES to be the go-to app for GenZ when they need a break. While many find news sources stressful and overwhelming, especially GenZ who often avoid them, we envision SHADES as a place where users can relax while staying informed. The typical news can be intimidating with its heavy text, leading to news avoidance. However, our aim is to change this by offering a mindful feature that allows users to absorb news in a calming environment. With SHADES, users can learn about global news without the stress, allowing users to have access to knowledge more comfortably.
The purpose of this feature is to create a welcoming, easily-accessible space where users can relax and focus on their mindset. Users will be given the opportunity to make self-care a priority for individuals all around the world, allowing them to further develop their wellness and mindset. This also allows users to engage with news and the political climate in a calm, and peaceful manner, removing all the stressful tension. This is done by actively making users engage with our small self-reflection activities, as well as providing a safe, non-judgmental space for users to interact with one another, using community discussion posts, listening to podcasts, using a personalized chatbox, and more!
We built our design utilizing Figma.
A challenge we ran into was catering mental health with the news outlet aspect of Shades as we weren't sure if both topics would go hand in hand.
We are proud of the several features we created, specifically the AI based chatBox which allows users to chat and receive general recommendations.
We learned how to use Figma overall (it was one of our member’s first time in a hackathon), and we learned how to make an interactive ChatBot.
What's next for Zen is to make our chatBox better as well as integrate some more features that make it more interactive. We also hope for Zen to be utilized by Shades.
Built With
- figma
