Sleepy
Heads
Sleepyheads offers holistic remedies for users struggling achieve quality sleep
Team
Elizabeth Lee
Ellison Hwang
Andrew Ibarra
Victoria Kasminoff
Role
UX/UI Designer
Project Member
Duration
3 weeks
Problem
Many individuals struggling with sleep due to stress and anxiety, seek holistic techniques and tools for stress-relief to gain better quality sleep.
Solution
We created and expanded on two main features for this app:
Sound Library
Remedies Page
Overview
Sleepyheads is an app designed to allow users to develop a personalized sleep routine. Users can add sounds ranging from nature sounds to audiobooks to ASMRs. Users also have the option to try different remedies ranging from tea remedies to meditation routines. With their saved sounds and remedies, users can create and save a routine with their personal preferences. We started with creating lo-fi wireframes and made iterations to create a mid-prototype.
Research
We conducted user interviews to understand how users' sleep habits and behaviors impact their daily lives. We interviewed 5 people. Our target participants were people who have trouble sleeping or have bad sleeping habits.
Based on the user interviews, we found some key takeaways:
Stress is the most common reason people do not get good quality sleep
It takes roughly an hour for people to fall asleep
Several holistic remedies have been tried, but people have a hard time sticking to them
Interviews
Survey
To understand people's sleeping habits and quality of sleep better, we also conducted a survey.
From this, we found more evidence for a correlation between the quality of sleepy and the levels of stress in an individual.
Affinity Diagram
We created an affinity diagram to organize and categorize the extensive amount of user research data we had collected. By synthesizing our finding into related groups, we were able to identify common themes, patterns and pain points experienced by our users.
User Persona
After collecting data from our user interviews, we created a user persona, which then helped us visualize what solutions would be best for her.
Meet Magenta Smith!
“Sleep deprived, but caffeinated... so balanced I guessed. ”
Student + Admin at Law Firm / New York City / 26 yrs old
Behaviors
Leads a busy life
Always doing something
Has high energy
Needs/Goals
She wants to find holistic sleep remedies to help calm her mind
She wants to improve the quality of her sleep
She wants a variety of options
Problem Statement
Many individuals struggling with sleep due to stress and anxiety, seek holistic techniques and tools for stress-relief to gain better quality sleep.
How might we find a solution that offers holistic stress-relief aids, helping users relax and improve their sleep quality?
Ideation
Based on our user persona, we constructed a storyboard focusing on the issue of our target user and our solution.
Storyboard
Competitor Analysis
We then identified and analyzed similar apps to our own to see what strengths we can follow and what weaknesses we can avoid. We found several key points to note:
The design was visually pleasing and evoked a calming and dependable tone
Users expressed their dislike towards the high subscription prices
Users often complained about the spam notifications
User Flow
After establishing our story and analyzing the competitors, we developed our user flow by focusing on two main features:
Sound Library
Remedies Page
After creating the two features, our focus shifted to optimizing the task flows to ensure users can easily comprehend and utilize them.
Design
Lo-Fi Wireframes
During the initial wireframing stage, each team member independently produced several wireframes. Subsequently, we reviewed and analyzed each of our creations to determine which concepts to incorporate from each team member into the next wireframing phase. Additionally, we deliberated on the desired styling for our prototype and identified the design that would best cater to the user's needs.
Iteration #1
Some users suggested to make a homepage with a browsing option.
To meet that need, we redesigned the "Top Remedies" and "Top Sounds" sections to be scrollable and more interactive for users.
Iteration #2
Some users found it confusing to identify the purpose of each page.
So we added titles onto each page and rearranged the layout to help users navigate and comprehend the purpose of each page more easily.
We made some other iterations:
Emphasized the Add to Favorites button
Redesigned Favorites page
Added a splash screen
Mid Fidelity Screens
Interactive Prototype
FInal Thoughts/Next steps
During this project, we encountered challenges in consolidating our feature ideas and combining our design concepts during the initial prototype stages. Upon establishing a clear design direction, we were able to integrated input from all team members into the prototype.
In the future, we want to incorporate a “Sharing Night Routine” feature and a discussion page for users to engage in exchanging advice. In a future iteration, we would want to reduce the clutter on the pages.
As this was our first group project since beginning my UX/UI design journey, we had only acquired the skill of creating mid fidelity prototypes during this project. While this was our first project, it was extremely rewarding to challenge our research and creative skills and witness notable improvement as the project progressed.