Echo Memo
Mental health supportive app to manage to remember past good vibes with instantaneous voice records and encourage self-motivation.
DESIGN FIELD
UX/UI DESIGN AND RESEARCH
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONCEPT PROJECT
MOBILE APP
5 MONTHS
Phase 1
Kick-off workshops
We ran multiple UX workshops with the specified target user group to gain a deeper understanding of their problem and needs regarding its market, customers, and broader strategy. Echo Memo is a kind of voice diary that enables people to interactively and effectively motivate themselves to real-world challenges through remembering past good memories.
Phase 2
Discovery
Echoic memory is a type of memory that stores sound information. When you hear something, your auditory nerve sends the sound to your brain. It does this by transmitting electrical signals. At this point, the sound is “raw” and unprocessed audio information. Sound is processed by experience. That is why a sound of echoic memory takes us to that moment of experience.
We always focus on understanding the users' pain points and needs before jumping into the solution. The main aim of this phase is to collect the initial insight which is driving the problems and get a better sense of the overall context of the user journey.
We narrowed my research area down through the NHS Mental Health Monthly Statistics and clarified the problem specifically. Mixed anxiety & depression is the most common mental disorder in Britain, with 7.8% of people meeting the criteria for diagnosis. 4-10% of people in England will experience depression in their lifetime. We decided to create a tool for encouraging self-motivation in everyday routines.
''Good vibes of echoic memories can be set in enhancing mental health''
Phase 3
Wireframing & Prototyping & Iterating
Our design team created initial wireframes while gathering inspiration. We linked the prototype and tested it with our target user group. Then the final version of the tool content has been generated in detail. Then we iterated this on a weekly basis and finalized this phase through feedback.
Phase 4
Low Fidelity & User Testing
As the weeks passed, all problems were tackled one by one. In the final weeks, the prototype with low fidelity interfaces was designed to adhere to newly branding guidelines and tested with users.
Finally, our designers iterated the last version of the design with the company’s product team and after a few rounds of feedback, applied the final revisions to the interfaces.
''Feeling Happy with Past Good Memories''
Phase 5
Final Submission
Enhancing echoic memory in the form of traditional activities to strengthen memory, requires persistent voice record sharing, full acceptance of the interactive notification system, whereby the Echo Memo app relies more intrinsic on self-motivation.
We exported and shared the final design deliverables which have all the specs and are ready to implement at the end of the UX design process. These deliverables included all the screen designs, different states, and edge cases. We also created a UI kit with clear guidelines and rules that help to keep consistency when implementing the product.