UBYou

College wellness and support platform.

A Mental & Wellness app that helps students succeed.

Duration: 2 Months

Tools: Figma & Fig jam

Team: 3 UX/UI Designers, 2 UX Leads, & CEO.

Role: UX/UI Designer

Overwiew

UBYou is a centralized platform that helps college students navigate mental health and wellness by providing easy access to resources, self-care tools, and campus support services.

Business Goals

UBYou's goal is to improve student well-being by making support resources more accessible, increasing engagement through daily wellness check-ins, and strengthening partnerships with universities to enhance campus mental health initiatives.

What is the Problem?

UBYou lacks a clearer information architecture, a more user-friendly home screen, better distinction between UBYou and Campus resources, and a motivative for daily wellness check-ins.

  • Improve information architecture.

  • Redesign the home screen for better usability.

  • Combine UBYou and Campus resources with clear distinction.

  • Boost motivation for daily wellness check-ins.

Approach

Based on our research, our first step is to redesign the information architecture, develop user flows, and create mid-fidelity to high-fidelity prototypes.

Redesigning the Information Architecture

  • Establish a hierarchy within functions and features.

  • Categorize similar items and add sub categorizes. 

2. Distinguishing between UBYou & Campus resources

  • Add a toggle switch of UBYou resources & Campus resources. 

1. Designing the Homepage

Two homepage versions were made to A/B test for engagement and conversions.

Outcomes

  • Users found Screen A more convenient as it required less scrolling.

  • Users found Screen B's calendar overwhelming.

  • Users felt more motivated to complete the daily check-in since it was on the homepage.

Final Screen A

Screen A will be used with a gamification feature added to the daily checkin.

Screen A

Screen B

Gamification

Streaks will be added to gamify the Daily Checkin and retain more user engagement.

Some userflows of main tasks will be made.

Userflows

Userflow 1: Access group counseling from resources.

Userflow 2: User performs a daily check-in

Wireframes

To excectue the product mid-fidelity wireframes were made.

Design Systems / UI

Color Palette: 
Typography:
Common Components: 

Prototype

Below is a prototype of some main userflows.

This project being my first real-life project it offered many valuable learnings. Collaborating with a UX team and the client is a really great experience I gained. Taking feedback from the client and implementing it throughout the project was an important aspect of this project. Planning out the deliverables and working a tight deadline has taught me how to work effectively according to a time constrain.

Learnings & Takeaways