HEALING IN TONE
Healing In Tone is an app that helps people release daily pressure and create their own healing music.
2021
BACKGROUND
Music therapy is both an interpersonal process and a systematic process of intervention that therapists use to help patients to improve, restore or maintain health.
Different Age’s Depression/Anxiety Level
Knowledge Needs in Different Areas of Mental Health
In China, it is estimated that about 100 million people suffer from various kinds of mental illnesses. Out of those people, 16 million are believed to be severely affected by their conditions.
Meanwhile, another 250 million are believed to need psychological services, with 80 million in serious need of treatment.
However, 72.3% of those with the illnesses are not even aware of their depression, anxiety, or other mental problems.
* Sources are from National Mental Health Report of China (2019-2020)
RESEARCH
Out of 126 samples:
Sex Distribution
Age Distribution
Job Distribution
Frequency of Feeling Anxious/Depressed/Upset
Frequency of Listening to Music
Music's Benefit
Acknowledgement Of Music Therapy
Possible Cure The Music Therapy Could Bring To The Treatment Of Mental Health
Interests In Learning More About Music Therapy
Interests In Creating Your Own Healing Music
SOLUTIONS
3 Solutions
COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS ANALYSIS
In Apps like Mindfulness Bell or Tibetan Bowls Meditation, they have poor image quality, bad user experience and user interaction, boring interface design, monotonous operation, and users can't create their own healing music.
PERSONAS
LOGO DESIGN
Drafts:
Final Decision:
USER FLOW
LOW-FIDELITY WIREFRAME
HIGH-FIDELITY WIREFRAME
Login & Main Page:
After login, there are three functions on the main page.
Daily Self-check is in a questionnaire style to learn about the users' daily mental health condition, and the data collected will help generate recommended daily healing exercises for them.
Start Your Healing Today is a quick tool to let the users start their exercises immediately. It's generated based on the user's likes.
Mental Health Propaganda is where the user can find daily trending mental health articles, talks, and lives.
Explore:
On Explore Page, there are three functions: Healing Courses, Mental Health Insights, and Healing Music.
Healing Courses offer various meditation or yoga courses. Users can also see who teaches the course at the first glance.
Mental Health Insights is where the users can find helpful mental health articles, talks, and lives that help them have a deep understanding of the importance of mental health.
Healing Music provides users with different kinds of music, like white noise, pure music, and natural sound, to help them release pressure.
Music Creation Page:
Users can choose to use their phones or connect with our kinetic devices to create their healing music. We also have multiple musical instruments to choose from.
Our head device will detect users' brain waves, forehand temperatures, and heart rate. The frequency of brain activity will reflect through the led light on the front of the device.
Our hand device equips with the finger inertial tractor, the motion sensor, and the imu chip to accurately capture the users' movements.
Both head and hand devices can be connected via Bluetooth. The wireless connection ensures a comfortable and joyful user experience.
Head Device Model:
Hand Device Model:
Help:
On the Help Page, there are two functions: chat and call.
If users feel that they need someone to talk to, they can find our friendly listeners in this section.
If users feel that they cannot handle their emotions and may need some medical assistance, they can choose to call our 24/7 hotline.
Profile:
On the Profile Page, users can find their weekly/monthly mental health report generated from their daily self-checks.
They can find their created music in the music library. The music here is private; only people who make them can listen to it. However, users can also choose to share them via social media apps.
Users are also welcome to join our team. After training, they can join our chat group under the help channel to help others. After inspection, if they have a psychology license, they can join our call group under the help channel.
