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Learnings
Adaptive Interviewing: Refined skills in extracting insights and tailoring questions to diverse users.
Strategic Inquiry: Asking 'Why?' enhanced clarity and intentionality in design decisions.
Effective Storytelling: Learned how powerful narratives communicate ideas and engage audiences.
Data visualization
Dive deeper into your sensory experiences throughout the year
Sense working model
Feedback
loop
Generate Sensory
Experiences
Multimodal
integration
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User’s needs
Evidence based therapies
User reaction and outcome
Sense uses multimodal integration, combining sensory data with therapies crafted with healthcare professionals and user inputs on preferences and moods. Immediate and delayed feedback fuels our loop, enhancing and tailoring user experiences.
App Widgets
We prioritized simplicity to reduce cognitive load during heightened emotional states. Sense features intuitive home screen widgets highlighting the top 4 user preferences. With one click, users can swiftly access tailored experiences without navigating, especially during vulnerable moments.
Job Story: Explore Sensory Experiences
Sensory stimulating experiences
Users can explore experiences tailored to stimulate one or more senses based on their specific needs through various exercise formats. The interface will tell them how the experience will help them and what they need before they begin. It will also give some tips to the users on how to enjoy the experience better.
Job Story: Personalizing the journey
Tailoring the journey to match the mood
Sense is designed to be interactive and user-centered. The daily mood check-in captures users' emotional states, allowing us to tailor personalized journeys for effective assistance.
The app's homepage features the top four essential actions, enabling direct access to category experiences with a single click, eliminating manual searches.
Job Story: Onboarding
Embark on a sensory journey
To stand out from conventional meditation apps, we initiated an engaging onboarding process, sharing our narrative and emphasizing our unique approach. At the same time, understanding user needs drove the creation of a concise 6-step onboarding, striking a balance between user ease and gathering crucial data for personalized experiences.
The birth of Sense
An app that personalizes sensory experiences for your well-being journey. To help you achieve your wellness goals
Why
To address well being as a holistic human experience
What
Create multi sensory integrated experiences for personalized wellness plans
When we thought of Sense's personality, we thought of a friend who was there to help us through our wellness journey. Thus, the logo emerges from two circles hugging each other depicting how Sense embraces holistic well-being. The merging of two circles also shows how well-being is a collaboration of inner harmony and the union of all the senses.
Customer journey informed by research insights
Key Archetypes
Healthcare professionals
Psychologist | Explorative | Runs her own clinic
Searching innovative ways to tackle mental health
Optimizing home therapy sessions with clinical guidelines
Need patients to follow a schedule for prescribed treatment
Trouble in maintaining follow ups with the patients
People coping with wellness challenges
Graphic Designer | Introverted | Corporate Employee
Experiencing a roller coaster of emotions and mood swings
Distant relationships with friends and family
Suffering from chronic back pain
Want to be self aware about his condition
Wants to unwind after work
HMW
How can we leverage the power of our senses to transcend conventional therapies, stepping into the realm of transformative multi-sensory experiences?
Sense
Wellness app that provides multi-sensory experiences replacing the traditional forms of therapies
Background
Human senses are more than just receptors; they are the channels through which we connect to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us. Often, we perceive our senses as distinct entities. However, in reality, our senses intricately mix and mingle, to shape our experiences and perceptions thus affecting our well-being in profound ways.
Unfortunately, in our wellness conversations, sensory health often remains a missing piece. Even though it is critical to our overall well-being, stimulating our senses to heal humans is extremely undervalued.
Roles
UX Research, Product Design, Visual Design, UI design, Data Visualization, Motion Design
Team
2 Designers (Sakshi & Nidheesh)
1 Mentor (Blake Hudelson)
Duration
8 weeks
Embark on a sensory journey
To stand out from conventional meditation apps, we initiated an engaging onboarding process, sharing our narrative and emphasizing our unique approach. At the same time, understanding user needs drove the creation of a concise 6-step onboarding, striking a balance between user ease and gathering crucial data for personalized experiences.
Tailoring the journey to match the mood
Sense is designed to be interactive and user-centered. The daily mood check-in captures users' emotional states, allowing us to tailor personalized journeys for effective assistance.
The app's homepage features the top four essential actions, enabling direct access to category experiences with a single click, eliminating manual searches.
Sensory stimulating experiences
Users can explore experiences tailored to stimulate one or more senses based on their specific needs through various exercise formats. The interface will tell them how the experience will help them and what they need before they begin. It will also give some tips to the users on how to enjoy the experience better.
Chef's notes
A path of endless learnings
Adaptive Interviewing
Interviewing diverse users sharpened my skills in extracting insights and tailoring questions, improving my understanding of needs and perspectives.
Effective Storytelling
Mastering the art of storytelling proved crucial. From interviews to brand pitches, I learned how powerful narratives convey ideas and connect with the audience.
Strategic Inquiry
Asking 'Why?' throughout the project deepened my understanding of design choices, fostering intentionality and clarity in every decision. This approach ensured that each design element was purposeful and aligned with user needs.
Plating the dish
Turn back in time with a yearly wrap!
Dive deeper into your sensory experiences throughout the year
Using devices like smart diffusers and wearables like stimulating headbands, brainware headphones, and smart rings, can help enhance the experiences by enhancing sensory stimulations. They will also help us with our multimodal study by analyzing the impact the experiences are creating.
Framing the sense working model
Keeping the user needs at forefront led the frame work for Sense’s model
Sense uses multimodal integration, combining sensory data with therapies crafted with healthcare professionals and user inputs on preferences and moods. Immediate and delayed feedback fuels our loop, enhancing and tailoring user experiences.
App Widgets
We prioritized simplicity to reduce cognitive load during heightened emotional states. Sense features intuitive home screen widgets highlighting the top 4 user preferences. With one click, users can swiftly access tailored experiences without navigating, especially during vulnerable moments.
Cooking the dish
Mapping the experience
Building a meaningful product experience flow that shapes the features of Sense
When we thought of Sense's personality, we thought of a friend who was there to help us through our wellness journey. Thus, the logo emerges from two circles hugging each other depicting how Sense embraces holistic well-being. The merging of two circles also shows how well-being is a collaboration of inner harmony and the union of all the senses.
Mixing the flavors
Building the brand
Every sense tells a unique story!
The journey map guided us design SENSE
A platform that uses the amalgamation of all your senses to help you nurture a deeper connection with your mind body and emotions thus moving towards the journey of a healthier wellbeing
Why?
To address well being as a holistic human experience
How?
We merge technology and evidence-based practices to deliver multi-sensory health therapies
Marinating the ingredients
Customer journey informed by insights
The Recipe
User interviews
To understand behavior and listen to customer needs, we identified 2 key archetypes
Healthcare professionals
Psychologist | Explorative | Runs her own clinic
Searching innovative ways to tackle mental health
Optimizing home therapy sessions with clinical guidelines
Need patients to follow a schedule for prescribed treatment
Trouble in maintaining follow ups with the patients
People coping with wellness challenges
Graphic Designer | Introverted | Corporate Employee
Experiencing roller coaster of emotions and mood swings
Distant relationships with friends and family
Suffering from chronic back pain
Want to be self aware about his condition
Wants to unwind after work
Our question was:
How can we leverage this missing piece to transcend conventional therapies, stepping into the realm of transformative multi-sensory experiences?
And thus,
We designed Sense; an app that personalizes sensory experiences for your well-being journey. To help you achieve your wellness goals
Get personalized sensory experiences
Track your experiences
Turn back in time with a wrap of your goals
The Ingredients
Role
UX Research, Product Development & Strategy, Visual Design, UI design, Data Visualization, Motion Design
Team
2 Designers (Sakshi & Nidheesh)
1 Mentor (Blake Hudelson)
Duration
12 Weeks
Overview
Human senses are more than just receptors; they are the channels through which we connect to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us. Often, we perceive our senses as distinct entities. However, in reality, our senses intricately mix and mingle, to shape our experiences and perceptions thus affecting our well-being in profound ways.
Unfortunately, in our wellness conversations, sensory health often remains a missing piece. Even though it is critical to our overall well-being, stimulating our senses to heal humans is extremely undervalued.
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