inspiration from kate ho

Inspirations

Kate Ho,Product Manager, Ginsberg

01

A recap on the audience and challenges

WHO?

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

DESIGN CHALLENGES

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

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.

DIGITAL != INTERACTIVE

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

WANT TO DIG DEEPER

How do you help people cope better?

02

Inspirations from Existing Products

EXPRESSION TOOLS

Getting things out off your head. Finding ways to offload.

750WORDS.COM

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

BIG WHITE WALL

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

FMYLIFE.COM

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

TRACKING TOOLS

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

HAPPINESS

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

MR MOOD

Cute easy way to track mood.

MEMENTO

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

DAY ONE

Tags, Photo upload, iCloud, export to PDF.

SLEEP TRACKING / SLEEPBOT

Track sleep through your phone.

DREAM:ON

Sleep influencer. People indicate what dreams they would like, then app plays soundscape.

JAWBONE UP/FITBIT FLEX

Ambient measure of activity and sleep.Uses iPhone app to track mood and food as well. Smart alarms!

LUMOBACK

Posture and Activity sensor.

DATA AGGREGRATION

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

03

Inspirations from Life Designs

04

The Task