ALL IN PEACE
PROJECT SUMMARY
All In Peace is a free and comprehensive app meant to address the overwhelming mindfulness/wellness market.
Our goal is to provide users with the resources they need, including but not limited to:
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A specialized onboarding system that gathers users' experience with mindfulness/wellness according to knowledge and experience.
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A private and secure journaling system that guides and checks in with users using catered prompts.
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Resources such as calming audio, a log-in tracking system that engages the user, and bite sized wellness/meditation sessions.
THE BIG GOAL
We hope to create a product that is individualized and personal.
Many meditation apps either present too little, too much, or charge for a personal experience. We aim to change that.
Our product is for those who want a hassle-free wellness experience.
There’s a plethora of mindfulness/wellness/m editation apps out there.
Our product targets only what the user needs.
OUR AUDIENCE
The users are anyone who wants to get into wellness or is frustrated by other wellness apps that use paywalls and have too many features that become overwhelming and counterproductive.
Our goal for our users is to understand that wellness isn’t just meditation; it’s a wide area, and our app will give them the freedom necessary to customize their wellness routine and plan.
THE COMPETITION
DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGY
WE’RE HYPER-FOCUSED ON TAILORING TO
INDIVIDUALS NEEDS THROUGH
CUSTOMIZATION OF PRODUCT
WE GO BEYOND ONE SPECIFIC AREA,
RECOGNIZING WELLNESS IS MANY THINGS
WE FOCUS ON THE PERSON AS A WHOLE,
GIVING THEM WHAT THEY NEED, FOR FREE.
USER RESEARCH
We interviewed a total of 12 participants with the questions below to build empathy.
7 WOMEN
5 MEN
8 GEN Z (AGES 11-26)
1 MILLENNIALS (AGES 27-42)
2 GEN X (AGES 43-58)
1 BOOMER (AGES 59-77)
4 CURRENT UNDERGRAD
4 COMPLETED BACHELORS DEGREE
3 MASTER'S DEGREE
1 OTHER FORM OF POST-BAC EDUCATION
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Keeping the app free, without a paywall, and with honest messaging!
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Not everybody knows about mindfulness, is consistent with practicing it, or sure if it’s something that would benefit them. There’s hesitation.
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The ability to express personal thoughts and opinions in a safe, secure manner was important to user comfort and peace of mind.
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All interviewees had a positive or neutral response to the name All in Peace and thought it reflected the goals of our app well, reminding them of peaceful moments in life.
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Tell me about yourself and some background.
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What do you know about Mindfulness, wellness, and meditation? We define
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Wellness/Mindfulness as an all-encompassing topic that simultaneously addresses the physical (exercise, nutrition) and mental (emotional, social, spiritual) components of human health. What do you think of this? Is there anything we’re missing?
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When you think of “All In Peace” , what comes to mind?
PERSONA OVERVIEWS
Jimmy Hendrick
Age: 21
Education: Current Undergrad
Career: Student, Future Finance
Lifestyle: Young adult studying at the University of Southern California, eager to transition into finance after finishing undergrad.
Pain Points:
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Having difficulty managing academic and professional workload
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Finance world is demanding, and is nervous about how he will manage the cutthroat environment.
Goals/Values:
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Following a daily schedule, including working out.
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Likes a work-life balance.
User Scenario:
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Jimmy’s anxieties are getting him and are affecting his life all around. His university offers wellness resources, but they are expensive or inconsistent, and he is looking for a more constant form of support. That is when he discovers All In Peace.
Young Xiao
Age: 30
Education: 6 Years Post-University
Career: IT
Lifestyle: Single, middle-class man who lives in Shanghai, China, and has worked at an IT company for the past six years since graduating from university.
Pain Points:
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Under increasing pressure as IT companies face massive layoffs due to COVID-19.
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Doesn't have much leisure time because his job takes up so much of his time.
Goals/Values:
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Hard-working
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Maximizing leisure time
User Scenario:
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Young feels old and worn out after spending post-grad time invested in building his dream career and future. He doesn’t know how to maximize his time to start living his life, and is starting to feel extra down. He searches for a way to get his life in order and comes across All in Peace.
Karen Smith
Age: 52
Education:Bachelor’s Degree in 1980s
Career: Homemaker
Lifestyle: Karen has a son who is now in college, she has just moved to Miami and stays at home doing chores every day. She feels lonely and always loses sleep at night.
Pain Points:
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Relearning how to prioritize herself after recently becoming an empty nester.
Goals/Values:
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Family key figure
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Need enough sleep time and a healthy life.
User Scenario:
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Karen is immersed in the hustle and bustle of life every day. Without a job, she often forgets her own value and questions her own abilities. The lack of companionship around her led to anxiety and insomnia, and she wanted to find a new way of life and discovered All In Peace.
BRAINSTORM STICKY NOTES
SITEMAP
LINK TO SITEMAP AND ANNOTATIONS
HERE
CREATING A JOURNAL ENTRY
STYLE SHEET
HIGH FIDELITY WIREFRAMES
USER
TESTING
GENERAL FINDINGS
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Everyone loved the homepage and background image and thought it gave the app a cohesive feel.
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The colors of the app were deemed peaceful with appropriate levels of contrast, but some found they weren’t totally cohesive.
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Overall, having the app fully prototyped would have allowed user testing to be a better experience for all, but the task was still able to be completed and get the goal across successfully.
PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED
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Users wanted free reign to navigate through the app, not just one task.
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Needs Assessment was described as long and very text-heavy.
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On smaller devices, the text of the Landing/Welcome page does not stay fixed and scrolls, blocking the main image.
HEURISTIC
REVIEW
HELP RECOGNIZE,DIAGNOSE, RECOVER FROM ERRORS
We agreed in our responses, but we can also work on adding more elements that can help users if they encounter errors.
ERROR PREVENTION
Although we agreed in our responses, most of our elements were not applicable to this heuristic.
AESTHETIC AND MINIMALIST DESIGN
We all agreed that our design was relevant to our solution.
HELP AND DOCUMENTATION
All of us agreed that our app do not have or not applied for the help or support page.
VISIBILITY OF SYSTEM STATE
We agreed on the way we portray current information to users, though changes could be made to buttons.
CONSISTENCY AND STANDARDS
Views towards our consistency were stable across responses, but changes can be made to the color contrast.
USER CONTROL AND FREEDOM
While menu bar at bottom offers some freedom, we agreed there were missed opportunities to add more controls.
FLEXIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY OF USE
We agreed that dialogs correspond to relevant information and allow users to tailor actions.
FINAL ITERATION
FINAL
ITERATION
TASK FLOW VIDEO
RECOMMENDATIONS
In the future iterations of this project, we plan to implement and consider the following potential changes:
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Conduct more user and product research to understand how we can further define our differentiation strategy and market.
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Further designing the features that would be available to our users, such as the wellness and tracker pages.
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Design what the user flow and wireframes would look like for the other personas.
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Design a formal logo for our app and the app’s name.
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Revamp the color scheme and page styles.
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Conduct a second user testing session using our newly designed and implemented features with previous and new testers.
OUR PEACEFUL TEAM
SAMI FRANKEL
Deck design, Brainstorming, Sitemap, User flow, Annotations, Wireframes
SHUAI XIAO
Deck design, Brainstorming, Annotations, Wireframes
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TIRSA FERNANDEZ
Brainstorming, Sitemap, User flow, Annotations, Wireframes
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ALEJANDRO GALEGO
Programming Editor