Meditation Platform
A platform for building a habit of meditation with on-demand classes you can schedule and time-block into your calendar. I played a key role in facilitating its design.
Background
Whether you're balancing back-to-back meetings, managing life as a busy mom, or looking for calm between classes and exams, this platform makes it easy to fit meditation into your day. Enjoy personalized meditation classes tailored to your needs, with the ability to pre-schedule sessions and seamlessly time-block them into even the busiest schedule.
My role
I worked as the sole UX Designer for an iOS application and responsive website platform, working closely with a team of 7+ developers, two stakeholders, as well as a creative marketing team.
Tools
Figma, Zeplin, Jira, Adobe illustrator
Objectives
The Why
How might we design a product that can help busy people create new daily habits to support their health and well being?
Since the start of the pandemic, people have been looking for ways to ease their stress and promote a healthy lifestyle. The demand for mindfulness apps is growing every year. According to Google, the number of searches for yoga and meditation apps like ‘yoga for beginners app’ and ‘mindfulness apps’ increased by 65%. While the demand may be increasing, actually being able to make those habits stick, is another story. According to this study, the failure rate of making a new habit stick is as high as 88%.
In the peak of the pandemic, it was clear that people wanted to create a healthy lifestyle. To assist users in creating healthy habits, they would be able to schedule each of these classes right into their personal calendars so they can time-block these daily rituals. We wanted to focus on a product that would take the stress and mental load out of trying to create a new habit into their daily life, so users can incorporate these habits stress-free with ease and spend more time enjoying life and building habits.
A healthy life style starts with a single healthy habit.
Today, the number of people who meditate globally is estimated to be anywhere between 200 and 500 million
With more people realizing just how effective meditation is to overall wellbeing, it is no surprise that more people are willing to engage in the practice.
Design process
Visualizing Solutions
Information architecture
After gathering data, I wanted to explore the design and flow of the platform. The platform will have 4 main sections: Log in and Onboarding, Home/ Browse, Calendar, and My Practice/ Settings
Visual Design
The vision is a sleek and modern design, drawing inspiration from the use of grayscale and minimal colors found in innovative tech products. The aim for intuitive navigation and simplicity, similar to effective scheduling tools. With a goal of bringing meditation into the corporate world, and the design language leading the pack.
Sleek. Modern. Upscale. Clean.
Final Design
Deliverables
Browsing classes
Users can browse classes on the home page. They can scroll the home page and find classes curated for them based on preferences and watch history, find classes split by category, look through class collections, and browse the teachers. Users can also filter or search for specific classes. Once they choose a class, they select the duration of how long they would like to meditate, and they can begin their meditation right away, or schedule it into their calendar for later.
Calendar
At the calendar, users can see all view- all the classes they have scheduled, day view- look at everything in their calendar for the day, or month view. Users can also add classes to their calendar by using the add to calendar feature, and select classes through the filter and add directly to their calendar. Users are limited to adding to their schedule up to 7 days in advanced at max, which enforces users to get on the app weekly to create their meditation schedule to assist habit building.
My Practice
In My Practice, users can view their stats and access the Settings, as well as view their favorites, their class notes, their badges, and watch history.
Website
The platform has a desktop version as well. I utilized mobile-first design to design desktop pages for every screen, and the mobile website for users that don’t have an Apple phone, and may access the platform through their mobile phone.
The website features a full landing page for new users that want to learn more about the platform, view plans, and see some of its features. Users can also access all the same meditation classes as in the app, and also access their calendar and settings.
Final Thoughts
This project was challenging in that there were many technical details and unique constraints I had to wrap my head around. It enabled me to go through the entire design process, from conception and research, to communicating with developers and completing quality assurance. I learned a lot throughout the process, including constraints when building an iOS app for the Apple store. I also learned a lot about my own personal design process. I learned how important feedback is from everyone on the team, and what to do with the feedback. I learned I am an advocate for users, for accessibility when it comes to my designs, and empathetic when it comes to hearing feedback. Finally, I learned A LOT about the benefits of meditation, behaviors in which people meditate, and habit-forming practices.