Capstone

Helps you evaluate your emotions and triggers.

itone

01 - INTRODUCTION

Project Overview

• Journaling is an incredible stress management tool, a good habit that mitigates the impact of physical stressors on your health. Also, a journal helps to clarify our goals and helps to solve the problems of the past.

• itone is a visual mood tracking journal and diary application, which helps you understand your emotions and trigger.

• iTone provides several options to help the user understand the influence of people, surroundings, environment, time and other factors that impact mood which are called triggers.

• Improve your strength by leading your emotions.

Problem Statement

“How might we help veterans and service members who are dealing with depression journaling to understand the problems and triggers in the easiest way?"

Solution

Creates a personal emotion tracking application.

• Also, this can benefit the mental health treatment plan and support the user to improve their coping skills.

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02 - RESEARCH

Target Audience

• Focusing on veterans and service members who are diagnosed with depression. Currently in the treatment program and assigned individual mental health counselors. Which include psychiatrists, psychologist and social workers.

Primary Sourcing

• Interview 1
  

  Name:            Tom
  Age:                70
  Occupation:  Vietnam Veteran
  Location:       Colorado Springs, CO
  

  Finding

  1. "I am a Vietnam Vet, who is struggling with Depression. I am in the recovery path program in VA hospital. I have to do a journal to keep track of my emotions daily to improve my coping skills and get help with my trauma."
  2. I am not a good writer, but I have to try. It is too hard to explain how I feel.
  3. Sometimes the journaling is difficult when I get triggers and in a mood. I have no plan to bring the notebook or the writing equipment everywhere I go.
  4. I have to fill out the assessment at the hospital every time when I see the doctor for an update and evaluate my mood.
     

• Interview 2
  

  Name:            Samuel
  Age:               37
  Occupation:  Programmer
  Location:       San Francisco, CA
  

  Finding

  1. I don’t like journaling, but I have to show my psychiatric the progress of my treatment journey.
  2. I am not good enough to express my emotions in a writing way because when I’ve got a trigger, I don’t want to do anything.
  3. The psychiatric will talk to me anyway why do I need to do a journal?
  4. "I don’t want to bring paper and pen to journaling. It sounds like that takes a lot of work."
  5. I accepted that the journaling helps me improve my coping skills for sure.

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03 - PROOF OF CONCEPT

Persona

Storyboard

Data Model

• User table

  • id
  • Name
  • Profile Image
  • Email
  • Username
  • Password

• Emotion table

  • id
  • Emotion icon
  • Emotion name

• Journal entry table

  • id
  • User id (Foreign key to user)
  • Emotion id (Foreign key to user)
  • Text
  • Timestamp
  • Intensity

Project Timeline

Information Architecture

Low-Fidelity Wireframes

• Click a Link to play with Wireframes Prototype..

Color Palette

Icons / Buttons Design

UI Design

• Click a Link to play with Interaction Prototype.

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04 - TECHNOLOGIES USAGE

• Development

  • Atom
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQLite

• Framework

  • Bootstrap
  • Vue.js
  • Django

• Design

  • Illustrator
  • Sketch
  • InVision

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05 - REFERENCES

• PsyberGuid: https://psyberguide.org/expert_review/apps-for-bi-polar-disorder-expert-review/
• 8 Reasons Keeping a Journal Can Help You Reach Your Goals: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/reasons-to-journal/
• Turning Trauma Into Story: the Benefits of Journaling: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-babble/201208/turning-trauma-story-the-benefits-journaling
• 83 Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Management: https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/benefits-of-journaling/
• Images: https://pixabay.com