Role
Product designer
Mobile App Developer
Mobile App Developer
Team
Melinda Yao
Penny Wang
Penny Wang
Skills
User research
Rapid prototyping
Front-end development
Rapid prototyping
Front-end development
Tools
Figma
Swift UI
Swift UI
Timeline
24 hours
Overview
This event was hosted by WiCS(Women in Computer Science) at Columbia. Under the main prompt "Tech for Social Good," DivHacks provided various tracks that teams could work with. My team chose mental health.

TL;DR
Scope
As college students ourselves, we naturally gravitated to ideas that we individually have experienced. Our common denominator was that we study and procrastinate a lot, resulting in longer net time spent and additional burden around exam seasons. Our stress levels skyrocket around these times, which further leads to procrastination. It was a vicious cycle that bothered not just us, but many of our peers.
Problem
Our devices are the problem...
It's too easy to divert away from studying in our phones, and it becomes more tempting especially when you have lots of work to do by the next day.

Problem
Creating an app that guides users away from their phones
Our mobile app should encourage less device usage overall, which was a main source of distraction.

So what?
Pomodoro technique + healthy break times
Basically, one can choose how long they'd like to focus for. After a session, we prompt you to do things that aren't dozing off to a social media, which was to prevent from falling into a blackhole of doom scrolling.
We set our priority as such: a veeeery simple user flow that requires minimal touches, because we didn't want people on their phones while studying.
We set our priority as such: a veeeery simple user flow that requires minimal touches, because we didn't want people on their phones while studying.
Product feature 1
Choosing your mood
This will decide what type of instruction one would get during their breaks.

Product feature 2
Break time
If you're feeling energetic, we ask you for physical activities like squats; if you're tired, we ask you for a calm meditation.

Product feature 3
Sticker shop
We wanted to add an aspect of freshness and a sense of visualization for motivation. We came up with a sticker shop, where you buy stickers with points earned through the sessions. Sky is your limit.
