Wello

Our Mission

Our mission is to transform student wellbeing into an effortless, effective, and personalized social experience.

Many students feel like the wellness resources provided by their educational institutions are impersonal and burdensome to navigate.

Wello is an interactive wellness app that leverages AI to recommend wellness resources to students based on their unique needs and provides a platform for students to send messages of support to each other.

Journal and log your mood

Receive personalized wellness resources from your school

Support and receive support from friends

Design Process

Background Research & Needfinding Plan
Our team was interested in learning more about student burnout in academic institutions, so we started off by doing a literature review of the topic. We also interviewed an expert in the field and came up with a needfinding plan and preliminary discussion guide for future interviews.
- Read our Report
- View our Presentation [pdf] [pptx]
Needfinding & Empathy Work
Following our preliminary research, we conducted needfinding interviews with 8 participants, including undergraduate students, graduate students, and university faculty. We created empathy maps to synthesize our findings and generate actionable insights.
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- View our Presentation [pdf] [pptx]
POVs & Experience Prototypes
Based on our needfinding interviews, we created POV statements to synthesize the main surprises we learned about from our participants. Then, we generated potential solutions to the problems described by our participants, and we tested some initial assumptions using experience prototypes.
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Low-fi Prototype & Evaluation
We created an initial paper prototype of our most successful solution from the experience prototype phase, and we tested this prototype on 5 more participants.
- Try our Prototype
- View our Presentation [pdf] [pptx]
Medium-fi Prototype Iterations
Following our low-fi prototype, we iteratively created three versions of a medium-fi prototype, using Figma. Each version took into account feedback from the previous version.
- V1 + Evaluation
- Try our V1 Prototype
- View our Presentation [pdf] [pptx]
- V2 + Usability Study
- Try our V2 Prototype
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- V3
- Try our V3 Prototype (README)
- Read our Report
Group Heuristic Evaluation
We received valuable feedback from having usability testers try out our prototype. Feedback ranged from minor, cosmetic suggestions to larger usability issues that required further redesign.
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Final Prototype
After 10 weeks, we are proud to present our final medium-fi prototype, created in Figma.
- Try our Final Prototype (README)
- View our Final Presentation [pdf] [pptx]