Everwell combines your mood, schedule, and wearable data to learn when you get stressed at work, and figure out what actually helps.

Year: 2024

Duration: 2 weeks

You know that feeling after a long meeting – tired, tense, and just needing a break. Then your phone goes “bzz bzz.” Another thing? Now? Really? But what if your phone gave you relief? If you knew it was just a good friend checking in? That’s the goal of Everwell.

Turns out there’s this stress epidemic in Europe, and over half are often stressed at work. Good thing though: most want to learn how to deal with it. I looked at existing apps and saw a gap. There was no solution that helped people figure out what actually calms them down while fitting into their work schedule.

Think of a mood tracker, meditation app, and calendar app – all glued together with AI to actually make it about you. Breathing exercises not your thing? How about a short walk before the next meeting? If it helps – great! Let’s do it again next week. If not, let’s try something else. Over time, you and Everwell learn what works and when – and what’s off the table.

The brand needed to feel like that good friend who knows when and how to calm you down at work. But I had to also balance it with the techy feel of AI and smartwatches. In my mind I had this neutral and grounded feel, with a warm human touch wrapped around a kind of concentrated form of wisdom.

I landed on a grey backdrop to set the calm tone, while letting the infinity-woven star symbolize the wise and warm insights that lead to an ever wellness. This lets the brand build trust on a neutral slate, and not force the idea of saving all your stress – it’s a personal process after all.

Apparently, not all stress is bad and it’s more of a balance scale. I picked accent colors to reflect each stress level, and toned them down to fit with the grounded feel – so they don’t scream “YOU’RE STRESSED.”

During the brand process, I also mapped the app using personas, flows, and screen/interaction lists. The rest of the process kinda naturally fell in place thanks to clearly defining the brand first.

This app could benefit anyone with a job, which of course is a lot of people. So I made sure to check contrast throughout and thought of color blindness and low vision from the start. I also gave the hero piece (the wellness score) extra care.

After sifting through paper sketches and moving Rectangle 52 one last time, I turned the mashup of grey boxes into a cleaner prototype. I then tested it on 5 users and realized: there was too much text, it was unclear what you could tap, and graphs were stealing attention from the app's main USP: the insights.

I answered the usability issues with simplified screens, dropdowns, and more digestible texts. I also added a headline and a stress-level accent color to give a quick summary of events. I gave it the final treatment with brand colors and tuned the tone of the insights.

This project taught me a lot, and I learned how important it is to understand what you are designing for, and why. I also realized that I lean a bit too much on my gut feeling, and since this project, I have lowered the bar for the first tests. I also became confident in Figma, especially in using variables and building a design system. I learned that AI-driven products need great thought so it isn’t misused. And finally, if there’s a single key takeaway from this project, it is the impact of starting with the brand, because when that is clear, everything else falls in place.