Treatment for depression runs on what a patient can remember in a short appointment. How the last three weeks actually went, which days were bad and what happened on them, is mostly lost by the time they sit down, and the psychiatrist is left working from a summary the patient gives under pressure.
Keeping a journal would fix that, but writing one is exactly the kind of effort depression takes away. The record that would help most is the one least likely to exist.
A mobile app built around one conversation a day, and three services around it:
Two things shaped every screen. The first was effort: one tap to start talking, a mood picked from five faces, and a soft, quiet interface rather than a medical one. The second was trust: diaries and medical information are the most private data a person has, so how it is stored and who can see it was designed in from the start.
Two weeks from the first requirement to release. The first week covered planning, the interface and prototype in Figma, and the conversational AI; the second, the database, the clinician’s admin pages, testing and release. The app runs on iOS and Android from one build.
It was entered in the ToBeDoctor startup competition, with the pitch below, and placed fourth.
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