The document provides inspiration for designing a digital tool to help people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and feelings of being overworked or lonely. It discusses challenges such as serving a diverse population where moods fluctuate. Existing expression, tracking, and data aggregation tools are reviewed for inspiration. The goal is to help people manage issues rather than cure them by finding better coping strategies. An interactive digital approach is desired over static online content. Deeper understanding of how to help people cope better is needed by analyzing relationships between collected data points.

1. Inspirations
Kate Ho,
Product Manager, Ginsberg

2. 01
A recap on the
audience and
challenges

3. WHO?
People that feel stressed, anxiety, depression, overworked, lonely.
Often don’t want to talk about their problems.

4. DESIGN CHALLENGES
Population is very diverse. People aren’t depressed ‘ALL’ the time.
Feels like things just have to be the way they are.

5. HELPING PEOPLE TO COPE, NOT
CURE
No one can ‘cure’ depression. But you can learn to manage it or get better.
It’s about finding ways to cope better.

6. DIGITAL != INTERACTIVE
Currently, digital is a leaflet … online. Need to move on from this.
What does that look like? IM? Text? Facebook? Twitter?

7. WANT TO DIG DEEPER
How do you help people cope better?

8. 02
Inspirations from
Existing Products

9. EXPRESSION TOOLS
Getting things out off your head.
Finding ways to offload.

10. 750WORDS.COM
Comes from the ‘Artists Way’.
Encourages you to write 750 words a day. About anything.

11. BIG WHITE WALL
Lets users create bricks, and post them online.
A bit like PostSecret, but without the postcards.

12. FMYLIFE.COM
Post short stories.
A way to attempt to see the funnier side of life.

13. TRACKING TOOLS
Tracking is a way to measure progress, externalise and reflect.
Quantified Self movement.

14. HAPPINESS
Trying to discover what you think will make you happy vs what actually
makes you happy.

15. MR MOOD
Cute easy way to track mood.

16. MEMENTO
Aggregates your facebook and twitter feeds.
Smart Alerts. Allows you to annotate on top of those feeds.

17. DAY ONE
Tags, Photo upload, iCloud, export to PDF.

18. SLEEP TRACKING / SLEEPBOT
Track sleep through your phone.

19. DREAM:ON
Sleep influencer.
People indicate what dreams they would like, then app plays soundscape.

20. JAWBONE UP/FITBIT FLEX
Ambient measure of activity and sleep.
Uses iPhone app to track mood and food as well. Smart alarms!

21. LUMOBACK
Posture and Activity sensor.

22. DATA AGGREGRATION
Collecting data is great. But the most important bit is beginning to
understand how they relate to each other.

26. 03
Inspirations from
Life Designs

30. 04
The Task