My Contribution

UX Design Lead

I led an end-to-end design, synthesized insights from research to viable concepts.

Team

Minyan - UX Design

Alice - Design Research

Tiger - UI Designer

Timeline

Jan - Apr 2024

Award

*For award submissions, I created a promotional website using Framer.

What is Sundial?

  • Sundial is a AI-powered wellness planner that effortlessly creates and manages users’ wellness schedule through Sundial AI.

  • The core feature of Sundial is Sundial AI which makes highly personalized wellness plans tailored to each user’s lifestyle and health goals.

Goal

To make it simple, engaging and effortless wellness planner for their motivations through Sundial AI.

Why created an AI-powered wellness planner?

Solution

✅ Personalized wellness planner.

  • Highly personalized wellness plans tailored to each user’s lifestyle.

  • As users interact with the planner with an update in real-time.

✅ Effortless planner using Sundial AI.

  • Interacting with AI is smooth and conversational, enabling users to create planner without difficulties.

✅ An accomplishment experience through marks.

  • Allowing users to earn marks by completing daily wellness activities increases an engagement with a sense of achievement.

Problem

  • Low efficiency and a lack of personalization in their wellness plans.

  • Users often face difficulties with motivation and time constraints.

Research

The majority of the population is not achieving a state of health that could be considered optimal.

Online survey, 103 respondents

1 to 1 interview, 12 participants

  • Users struggle to maintain wellness routines due to busy schedules.

  • Existing wellness products lack flexibility and personalization.

  • Users desire an emotional connection and feeling of value from the products they interact with.

HMW design to help users to make an engaging and effortless wellness planner for keeping their wellness routines?

1st Testing & Iteration

💡Findings from 1st testing with 8 users

✅ Home screen, Users want

  1. Personal wellness stats

  2. Motivational message

  3. Tailored wellness plan

✅ Feature1, Users want

  1. Wellness detailed data

  2. Track Record

  3. Recommended plan

✅ Feature2, Users want

  1. Sharing data with others

  2. Competition with others

  3. Live - Streaming

Ideation

  • Need an effortless wellness planner due to their busy life. -> AI-powered Assistant.

  • Desire a personalized planner tailored to their individual lifestyle, health goals, and scheduling preferences.

📍 A huge pivot point

But, what differentiates Sundial from other AI wellness products?

2nd Testing & Iteration

💡Findings from 5 users through 2nd testing

  • An immediate daily wellness plan on home screen.

  • Minimal features, maximum values with AI.

  • A rewarding achievement experience for motivation and engagement.

✅ Pivoted design concept - reducing features and maximizing a core feature

✅ Improvements

  • Simplify to avoid overwhelming users.

  • Provide clear daily wellness plans for an engagement.

  • Offer a weekly plan overview for efficient planning.

✅ Improvements

  • Seeking a streamlined, AI-driven experience for personalized wellness support.

  • AI provides tailored guidance.

✅ Improvements

  • A sense of achievement makes routine tasks more engaging.

  • Building habits and boosting user satisfaction.

Visual Solution

Testing for Validation

💡Check validation through testing with 2 users

  • Users valued Sundial AI's minimal, user-friendly design.

  • Testing revealed users prefer manual typing over voice AI for speed and accuracy, especially in public.

Reflection

  • I’m proud to work on such a meaningful project which has been nominated at UX Design Award - Fall 2024. Thanks a lot to my team for believing in me and supporting me throughout the process.

  • If we have more time, we would continue to gather user feedback and make improvements on v2 and prepare a MVP launch.