UX & UI Design | Happypillar

The end to end design for the GA release of Happypillar’s mobile application.

About Happypillar

Happypillar provides practical, evidence based therapy skills to caregivers to help strengthen their relationships with their children. These skills are used during 5 minute Happy Time sessions (this may seem like a short period of time, but when you’re a mom, even 5 minutes is precious time!) Happypillar uses machine learning technology to listen to and analyze the sessions to provide personalized feedback to caregivers to improve their techniques. These skills are proven to decrease tantrum frequency, increase child self-esteem, increase social & sharing skills, and decrease caregiver stress.

  • As the design lead, I cross-collaborated with stakeholders and engineering lead to define short- and long-term product goals to inform the roadmap for the MVP

  • Chelsea Lensing UX/UI Designer
    Aero Zachritz - UX/UI Designer
    Ben Quachtran - Head of Engineering
    Sam Garnder - CEO
    Mady Mantha - CTO

  • Figma
    Otter AI
    Notion
    Loom

  • 2022

The Problem:

Moving from Beta to GA Release

For this project, I worked alongside another designer, the stakeholders, and the head of engineering to define short- and long-term product goals to inform the roadmap for the MVP of the GA release of the app. In order for Happypillar to move from beta to GA, we needed to focus on ensuring a seamless, end-to-end user experience that included an informative onboarding, a straight-forward recording page and the opportunity for user’s to view short and long-term data and growth within the app.

Beta Home Screen

GA Home Screen

Beta Feedback

To begin strategizing, we revisited research conduced and gathered for beta and combined that with feedback gathered directly from beta testers. Upon reviewing the feedback from beta testers, we discovered four areas of opportunity:

  • Users wanted a clearer picture of how many steps were involved in the onboarding process. They also wanted to be informed of research and data backing Happypillar’s technology before signing up.

  • The design of the likert scale survey was a bit difficult to read with the amount of information on one page. The colors did not meet accessibility standards.

  • Users felt that there were unnecessary buttons and worried about pausing or stopping their session and losing data.

  • Users wanted to see progress bars within videos and also have access to captions/alternative ways of consuming the information shared in the videos.