Kinari Shakiradiva

This project's focus is on mental health and coping mechanisms during the adolescent stage. I created this project in the hopes of raising awareness about the significance of properly caring for one's mental health and guiding others who are experiencing difficulties. 

Mental Health Project

MY SMART GOAL

• Specific : What am I doing? Why am I doing it?

I want to reach the audience of teens who are struggling with mental health and to also better spread the awareness about how important mental illness to all. Therefore making a website is one of the appropriate result to reach that goal.  It is very reachable and i feel many audience will be interested in. The website will be promoted on social media platform instagram, which can be useful when wanting to have more users. 

• Measurable : How will I know I have succeeded? What are the indicators?

I will track my progress by having a journal calendar where I would write the things that need to be done and with its other information on the specific date. I can have a checklist and that’s how I know and can succeed. I know I succeed when people can visit to the website on the platform. 

• Attainable : How can I make this happen? Is it achievable?

Research : I can first do a detail research more about the mental health topic itself. I will conduct an interview with a specialist and also someone who are currently experiencing mental health issues or few teens in general

Planning and Making : I will make a mind map stating my plan on how I will turn said information into a website. I will then make the website. 

Final Product : Lastly I will edit and post the website to the platform

• Relevant : How is the goal relevant to your problem and interest?

Mental health makes a part on our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps intent how we handle stress, connect to peers, do any other daily stuff and our choices. It will affect our daily behaviour if not handle right or quickly. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and through adulthood, especially teens because we are in the stages of development. 

• Time based : When exactly do I want to accomplish my goal?

End Term 1 : Ideate and detail research about topic

End Term 2 : Interview / plan - make final product

End Term 3 : Reviewing feedback from peers 

Beginning Term 4 : Exhibition time 

Empathy & Identifying Users

• How do you gain empathy for your users? 

By conducting research and finding specialists to speak with, it may better understand who your audience is. This will enable me to better grasp the target audience, the subject, and the finished result.

• What was your process when identifying your users?

I needed to really understand my chosen topic. Who is it specifically for and who would want to use my finish product. In that case, my target audience in teenagers ages 11 - 17. 

• How challenging has it been to get in touch with your users? Or to decide which users to contact?

It wasn't really that challenging getting in touch with my audience, because most of it include my peers. People like my friends, my sibling, and classmates are one's who I'am targeting the most. I also had the help from my teachers who gladly shared the google form I provided, which ended up getting many answers from the targeted audience. 

• What is one unique insight that you learned from speaking to your users?

The fact that many of them answered the same answers. I knew at that time that the mental health issue was quite a big topic in teenagers life. But getting insights from each person's point of view is intriguing. 

• Did your interviews change your perspective on the challenge? 

Not in a way where it completely change my point of view of the subject. I had already done many research before hand, therefore it is something very common. 

Define and Ideate

• Share your crazy eight ideas

1. Podcast

2. Website

3. Awareness Video

4. Poster

5. Seminar

6. Instagram Post

7. Workshop

8. Campaign

• What is one thing that is currently causing you to stress about your project?

There wasn't many challenges at this point of the project, but during this time I had to really think about how my targeted audience will respond to the finihs product. I chose a podcast as my finish product but later changed it to website since it seem to be more accsesible for teenager. 

Testing and Prototyping

• Tell your testing phase and include your survey result 

It was quite all trial and error, I made many revisions and one points started the website all over again. 

• What improvement did you make based on your testing survey?

Based on the feedbacks I got, most of which said that my product was great but was just missing some things such as a call button, and a text button to the line. This would help people who are struggling and needed immediate help. 

• What are the challenges in creating your prototype?

In term of making the website, it was quite difficult had I not use the app before. But after figuring out how to, it was easy. 

https://mentalhealthhelpbykin.carrd.co/