project overview
Made in collaboration with Alex Dudash and Hope Seibert, RESET is an easily accessible app that enables creative sketching on reflective prompts, allowing college students to anonymously express their feelings while fostering open conversations about their mental health experiences. The design objectives for RESET were to create an opportunity for students to vent their emotions, provide a way to reframe those feelings using motion design, and bridge the gap for students to express their emotions to someone.
project type
App Design, Design Research
year
2025
my role
Interface and Interaction Designer
class
Design Research Methods
process work
Research methods like surveys, interviews, generative research, journey maps, storyboards, and multiple rounds of user testing with paper prototypes, digital prototypes, and A/B testing were all used to establish what RESET was.
final designs
The final app makes use of open-ended prompts that encourage reflective sketching, a technique encouraged by art therapists, and a way to log emotions that feeds into a collective motion piece inspired by DAAP's daily input.
This helps students to reframe their thoughts, engage with their feelings, promote self-expression, and transform DAAP as a whole.
To view the full presentation of the project and research, click here.
To walk through the app yourself, click here.
