Just Chill
UI/UX Brand Identity Designathon
October 2022 | Rice University Designathon
PARTNER: Kristi Li
Duration: 3 days
Just Chill is a mobile application for college students to keep track of their daily relaxing activities and understand their approach to de-stress better.
PARTNER: Kristi Li
Duration: 3 days
Just Chill is a mobile application for college students to keep track of their daily relaxing activities and understand their approach to de-stress better.
Highlights
Take a Chill Pill!
Stop forcing yourself into the definition of a “healthy” lifestyle. Help yourself understand yourself better, especially your method of “de-stressing” yourself. In a diary format/ daily tracking format, users log what chill pill, or an activity he or she did to destress/ relax (choose or add a category and duration of the activity).
Explore core features of Just Chill ︎︎︎
Watch demo here
ANALYZING THE CHALLENGE
What does it mean by
a “healthy lifestyle”?
The Rice Design-a-thon challenged students with a thought-provoking prompt:
Making changes to improve your health can lead to benefits for your body, your mind, and even the environment. Design a mobile or web application that encourages practices of a healthy lifestyle.
Problem Statement
It’s challenging for college students to deal with stress and spend time to do relaxing activities outside of school.
Theme of the app
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Take a chill pill! : “to relax or calm down”
We soon came across the phrase “Take a chill pill”, an idiom of telling people “to relax or calm down”, and felt inspired to create an app that reminds people even small things matter in life and can help them refresh themselves. We wanted our app to help students keep themselves in check and eventually understand who they are.
Our Solution
The Features
Just Chill is a mobile application that doesn’t force anyone into the definition of a “healthy” lifestyle but helps you understand yourself better, especially your method of “de-stressing” yourself. In a diary format/ daily tracking format, users log what chill pill, or an activity he or she did to destress/ relax (choose or add a category and duration of the activity).
To help understand themselves better about what helps their health, the app creates a summary of the “chill pills” to find what is truly interesting to them. Users can also set goals on what they want to achieve weekly and there is never a right or wrong chill pill.
Our Takeaway
What we learned
This 3 day design challenge taught us a lot of things from collaboration, the UIUX design process, to the importance of understanding the user through conducting research and interview and having a solid problem statement to tackle.We are proud that we created a visually appealing and consistent app with easy UX that focused on one feature- keeping your logs to review the stats to know youself better. WIth its unique concept, we hope this helps the user redefine what a “healthy” lifestyle is.