Elva ai

Problem: Front desk staff at dental clinics perceived Elva, an AI-powered dental management platform, as a threat to their jobs. This fear led to low engagement with the platform, despite successful sales to clinics, undermining its potential benefits.

Solution: We conducted comprehensive customer interviews and data analysis to uncover the root causes of the staff’s reluctance. Using these insights, we redesigned the entire user experience to reposition Elva as an opportunity for staff enhancement rather than a replacement threat.

My Contribution:

  • User Research & Analysis: Led interviews with front desk staff and analyzed engagement data to identify concerns and misconceptions about Elva.
  • Experience Redesign: Revamped the platform’s interface and communication strategy to emphasize Elva’s role in supporting and augmenting staff duties.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborated with clinic management to develop training programs that highlighted the benefits of Elva for front desk employees.

Joyi: Stress Management for Teens

Problem: Teens often face anxiety that affects their well-being but isn’t clinically diagnosable. Existing solutions lacked the engagement needed to keep them motivated to manage stress effectively. A more personalized, engaging approach was needed.

Solution: We created Joyi, a mobile app where teens help a virtual friend manage stress through bite-sized, interactive lessons. These lessons teach both instant stress-relief techniques and long-term anxiety prevention in a playful, relatable way.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation & Strategy:  Conducted comprehensive research and brainstorming to create a concept that addresses the unique learning needs of teens.
  • Design: Developed a personalized, engaging interface.
  • Content Creation: Produced actionable, bite-sized lessons.
  • Development & Implementation: Built and launched the app, ensuring seamless performance across devices.

Joyi makes anxiety management a fun, educational journey for teens.

AstroMind

Problem: People wanted an app that was both entertaining and beneficial for self-awareness, offering more than just fun.

Solution: We developed AstroMind, combining quick personality quizzes with AI-powered daily horoscopes personalized from user responses. It’s not just about astrology—it’s about you and your unique vibe, offering both entertainment and value.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation & Strategy: Conceptualized an app blending fun with self-awareness.
  • Design: Created a playful, intuitive interface.
  • Content Creation: Developed engaging personality quizzes.
  • Development & Launch: Built the app and implemented AI for personalized horoscopes, ensuring a smooth launch across platforms.

Fun and Play Card Deck

Problem: Kids and parents are not spending enough quality, entertaining time together, leading to a lack of meaningful connection. There’s a need for a screen-free product that encourages family bonding.

Solution: We developed an innovative card deck containing 60 cards, offering three months of engaging activities for elementary and middle school kids and their parents. Each day, a parent and child draw one card featuring a bingo grid of activities. Each activity takes 2-3 minutes, fostering connection and fun in just 10 minutes a day.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Conducted thorough research, brainstorming sessions, and validation to ensure the product meets the needs of families.
  • Design: Created an engaging UI and UX, incorporating a compelling story for the game.
  • Curriculum Development: Developed an educational and entertaining curriculum with 540 unique and fun activities.
  • Launch Strategy: Devised a comprehensive product-market fit analysis and go-to-market strategy to ensure a successful launch.

Little Joys Agenda

Problem: There is a need for a mobile app that incorporates healthy, positive activities into daily life in an engaging way, rather than feeling like another personal development task.

Solution: We developed a mobile app for iOS and Android that acts as a calendar, featuring a daily joyful event connected to global cultural happenings. The app includes a journaling feature for planning and reflecting on meaningful acts.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Conducted research and brainstorming to generate and validate innovative ideas.
  • Design: Created an engaging UI and UX for a visually appealing, user-friendly app.
  • Content Creation: Curated joyful events aligned with worldwide cultural events.
  • Feature Development: Integrated journaling for planning and reflecting on daily acts.
  • Development: Built the app for iOS and Android, ensuring smooth performance.
  • Launch Strategy: Conducted a product-market fit analysis and executed a go-to-market strategy for a successful launch.

Automated Journal Planner Creation

Problem: Developing hundreds of printable annual planners for different target audiences was cost-prohibitive.

Solution: We created an intelligent service that enables the company to design just one page of the journal, with the rest generated automatically. This produces 12 printable and fillable monthly planners for each product, drastically reducing costs.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation & Strategy: Conceptualized a cost-effective solution for scalable journal design.
  • Design & Implementation: Built a system to automate journal creation based on a single-page design.
  • Market Testing: Validated the product’s success through market testing.

Stress Coping Stickers

Problem: An organization needed a practical, accessible, and engaging solution to help individuals manage their stress. They wanted a tool that would act as a quick, easy-to-use reminder of effective coping mechanisms, so people could remember what to do when they feel anxious.

Solution: We created vibrant stickers featuring stress-relief techniques like breathing exercises and grounding methods. Designed for personal devices, these stickers act as colorful, positive reminders to practice self-care throughout the day.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation & Strategy: Researched and brainstormed the most effective, engaging coping mechanisms.
  • Design: Created visually appealing, attention-grabbing stickers.
  • Implementation: Managed the project from concept to production.

These stickers offer a simple, accessible solution for daily anxiety management.

Helper Bears

Problem: An organization focused on digital literacy education for seniors faced the challenge that one-hour weekly sessions were insufficient for effective learning. Seniors needed a complementary resource to reinforce and practice their newly acquired digital skills.

Solution: We designed and developed engaging activity books tailored for each class session. These books serve as practical tools for seniors to practice everything they learned during their classes. The activity books are both printable and fillable on laptops and tablets, ensuring accessibility and convenience.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Conducted comprehensive research and brainstorming to create a concept that addresses the unique learning needs of seniors.
  • Design: Developed user-friendly and visually appealing activity books, ensuring they are easy for seniors to navigate and understand.
  • Content Creation: Created practical and relevant exercises reinforcing class teachings, enhancing the learning experience.
  • Development: Produced printable versions and digital fillable formats for use on laptops and tablets, ensuring flexibility in how the resources can be used.

The Colorful Post

Problem: Teenagers in North America spend an average of 7 hours daily on screens, yet their mental health literacy is low. An engaging, screen-free solution was needed to improve mental health education among youth.

Solution: We developed an engaging magazine for teenagers featuring relatable characters and a long-term content strategy. The magazine is gamified and based on scientific research related to subclinical anxiety, providing informative and captivating mental health education without screens.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Researched and brainstormed to create a concept that enhances teenagers’ mental health literacy.
  • Design: Developed an appealing magazine layout, ensuring it is attractive and engaging for youth.
  • Content Creation: Created a content strategy with relatable characters and gamified elements based on scientific research.
  • Development: Managed the process from ideation to the final product, ensuring cohesiveness and effectiveness.
  • Market Strategy: Launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to test and validate product-market fit.

Brightamins

Problem: Getting kids to take their multivitamins in the morning was a challenge for parents, leading to frustration. A solution was needed to make this task fun and engaging for kids, reassuring for parents, and educational.

Solution: We created a monthly advent calendar product that provides a daily dose of vitamins with a gamified comic and a short educational lesson. This makes the routine enjoyable for kids and stress-free for parents.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Researched and brainstormed to create a concept combining fun, education, and health.
  • Curriculum Development: Created a 12-month educational curriculum with engaging daily lessons.
  • Design: Developed child-friendly designs with illustrated characters and gamified storytelling.
  • Development: Managed the process from ideation to final product realization.
  • Market Strategy: Developed an MVP and tested it with 50 families to gather feedback and refine the product for launch.

Teenpreneurs Mental Support Program

Problem: Teenagers are increasingly joining the startup culture due to technological advancements. However, they often lack the mental resilience and skills needed to manage the challenges of running a startup and succeeding.

Solution: We created a program to support teenage entrepreneurs, addressing 16 common challenges like rejection, work-study balance, procrastination, and burnout. Each module includes practical tools like AI-powered apps, digital resources, and activities for individual and group use.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Researched mental health challenges of teenage entrepreneurs to develop a support program.
  • Curriculum Development: Created 16 modules with diverse tools and resources for teens.
  • Design: Developed a user-friendly interface for digital and printable resources.
  • Development: Managed the process from ideation to product completion, ensuring cohesion and effectiveness.
  • Launch Strategy: Executed a strategic launch plan with testing and feedback to ensure market readiness.

Mental Healthflix

Problem: Traditional methods of teaching mental health education often fail to engage youth, making it difficult to incorporate learning into their daily lives in a way that feels enjoyable and entertaining.

Solution: We developed a subscription-based platform, similar to Netflix, designed to make mental health education as engaging as popular entertainment. The platform offers a diverse collection of content, including movies, animations, music, podcasts, books, poems, social media shorts, workbooks, and activities. Unlike traditional platforms, our categories are based on mental health topics such as goal setting, breakups, burnout, and decision making, ensuring that users can find relevant content tailored to their specific needs.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Conducted extensive research and brainstorming to create an innovative approach to mental health education.
  • Design: Developed an intuitive UI and UX to make the platform user-friendly and visually appealing.

Teen Mental Health Triage App

Problem: Traditional mental health screenings often seem boring to teenagers, leading to low participation rates. A more engaging solution was needed to improve the screening process for teen mental health.

Solution: We created a gamified mobile app that transforms mental health screening into an engaging experience. A character interacts with users, asking triage questions in a chat format. NLP technology analyzes these conversations for deeper insights, and the results, with smart notes, are sent to a counselor for review. This app supports ongoing mental health screening for teens.

Our Contribution:

  • Ideation: Researched and developed an innovative approach to teen mental health screening.
  • Design: Crafted an appealing UI and UX for a user-friendly, engaging environment.
  • Gamification: Incorporated gamified elements to make the process interactive and enjoyable.
  • NLP Integration: Implemented NLP to analyze conversations and offer insightful data.
  • Development: Managed the entire process from ideation to final app, ensuring effectiveness.

Kidpreneur Educational Kit

Problem: Traditional methods for teaching kids entrepreneurship, such as the classic lemonade stand, are outdated and fail to provide a comprehensive learning experience. There was a need for a more engaging and educational alternative.

Solution: We developed a complete educational kit that allows kids to create and run a slime-selling business. The kit includes everything needed to get started, from materials and educational resources to planning and marketing tools. This hands-on approach provides kids with a fun and practical way to learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship.

Our Contribution:

  • Design: Developed an intuitive and child-friendly UI and UX for the educational materials and planning tools included in the kit.