Goal: To help young people manage negative feelings when using social media.
Stakeholder: Teenagers / adolescents coping with low self-esteem.
Journey: As a young person, when I browse social media and start feeling low, I want to receive help and advice on how to deal with my emotions effectively, and build up my self-esteem.
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As an adolescent
I would like to keep track of how much time I'm spending on a social media page
So that I can make a mindful decision on whether to continue browsing.
As an adolescent browsing social media and feeling low
I would like to have easy access to a source of help
So that I am immediately able to manage my feelings.
As an adolescent browsing social media
I would like to have access to a fact sheet about self-esteem
So that I can check the validity of some of my negative beliefs.
As an adolescent browsing social media and feeling low
I would like to see testimonials from my peers about the effectiveness of CBT exercises on self-esteem
So that I am reassured that they could be useful for me.
As an adolescent browsing social media and feeling low
I would like to assess my feelings before and after I complete a CBT exercise
So that I can be provided with suitable advice and information.
As an adolescent browsing social media and feeling low
I would like to be given a list of suggestions for exercises that would help me with my self-esteem
So that I can try them out and improve my self-esteem.
As an adolescent browsing social media and feeling low
I would like to be guided through each exercise in a friendly way
So that I am motivated to follow it through to completion.
As an adolescent browsing social media and feeling low
I would like to be able to personalise what help and advice is given to me
So that I can address my specific feelings and concerns.
- Research technical aspects and constraints
- Create README
- Create user journey & stories
- Design app flow & storyboards
- Design app flow & storyboards
- Decide on fonts & colours
- Website layout
- Graphic design
- Mock content
- Animations
- Refine styling
- Check app flow and refactor
- Mock Chrome extension
- Deploy on GitHub pages
- Fix bugs
- Prepare demo for presentation
- Body text: Alegreya Sans (3 weights)
- Headings: Gloria Hallelujah
- Fallbacks: Sans-Serif, Helvetica
- color1: hsla(0%, 0%, 99%, 1);
- color2: hsla(231%, 80%, 80%, 1);
- color3: hsla(30%, 91%, 56%, 1);
- color4: hsla(163%, 100%, 33%, 1);
- color5: hsla(211%, 56%, 43%, 1);
- To ensure immediacy, the app has to be fully integrated with the social media platform, which is Facebook for the prototyping stage.
- A Chrome extension fulfills the aspect of immediacy and ensures a large user base (74% of desktop users browse on Chrome).
- Social media usage is higher on mobile than on desktop for adolescents. However, a mobile app that interacts directly with the social media app is technically very difficult to develop on Android and not possible to build on iOS.
- Front-end: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript (jQuery)
- Chrome extension (mocked)
- Front-end as above
- Back-end: hapi.js, Handlebars.js templating
- User database: PostgreSQL
- User authentication: Hapi.js or OAuth (Facebook if possible)
- Chrome extension
(with the help of the product owner and colleagues from his clinic)
- Integrate suggestions and feedback from user testing
- Research existing CBT content for dealing with self-esteem
- Add CTB content to MVP (resources, facts, exercises)
- Integrate suggestions and feedback from user testing
- Explore personalisation options (to be discussed with the product owner)
- Add user authentication options
- Build Chrome extension and deploy
- Starting with piloting SocialUp on Google Chrome only, the next steps would be to expand to Firefox and Safari.
- A native app on Android is an option for mobile devices.
