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Kids need an app that gives an understanding of how and why emotions occur and gives effective ways of managing those feelings because it will help them to become resilient throughout life.
Parents need a guidance from professionals to help their children identify and manage their emotions to strengthen children mentally — for a self-determined and happy life.
“Mood” app will help parents to teach their kids to identify, understand, and talk about their emotions and feelings giving techniques for coping with their emotions.
I developed several interview questions.
• Are you talking about emotions in daily life?
• What could help you to develop your kid’s emotional intelligence?
• What are the most important things you want to know about emotions?
• Have you ever used games or apps that study emotions? Tell me about your experience.
Most interview participants reported feeling badly about managing their emotions. None of the participance uses app that study emotions. Some participance never heard about emotional inteligence. The feedback received through research made it very clear that users would be open and willing to study more about emotions and how to manage them if they had an access to easy-to-use tool to help guide them.
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame — teaches kids how to keep calm and carry on.
Smiling Mind — meditation and mindfulness app with guided practices for both children and adults.
Positive Penguins — tool to help children understand their emotions and to experience them in a positive way.
Hopster Saturday Club for kids — game designed to develop kid’s fundamental social and emotional literacy skills.
Wisdom: The World of Emotions — helps child manage big emotions with ease, build positive relationships, and reach their goals with confidence.
• Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame has a website and a parent section with great resources.
• With Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame you can personalize encouraging phrases that your child will hear.
• In Smiling Mind the meditations are targeted to the age of the individual logged on.
• The Smiling mind website also provides support for schools.
• Positive Penguins — explains emotions, suggest advice for different situations.
• Hopster Saturday Club for kids and Wisdom: The World of Emotions include interactive games to study emotions
• Competitors’ apps don’t have the option to write down feelings and what caused them.
• Most apps give kids practice with identifying emotions but don’t give techniques to manage them in a positive way.
• Most apps include games or meditations and don’t include suggestions for offline activities.
• Most apps has no personalisation
• Most apps don’t give tips how to manage spontaneous emotions in a positive way.
I did a quick ideation exercise to come up with ideas how to address gaps identified in the competetive audit.
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Study type: unmoderated usability study
Participants: 4
Location: Amsterdam, NL
Length: 7–10 minutes.
After analizyng data and iteration I’ve made following changes:
1. Added one more icon to bottom menu.
2. Highlighted sections emotions, stories, meditations and added icons to them.
3. Added month to archive.
4. Highlighted sections “my stories” and “my notes” in the archive
5. Changed profile page — took off diary icon from profile as I added it to menu, and added current mood to the profile page.
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