MyAtlas
Making mental wellness more accessible to college students by turning wearable health data into personalized insights and recommendations.
Overview
As part of Generate, Northeastern University's student-led product development studio, I worked alongside a team of designers and engineers to develop My Atlas, a mobile app focused on supporting the mental well-being of college students.
My Atlas uses data collected from wearable health devices to help students better understand their mental wellness. By passively tracking biomarkers, the app provides personalized insights, visualizes trends over time, and offers tailored recommendations to help students build healthier habits. Our goal was to make mental wellness more approachable by giving students the tools to better understand their well-being and take meaningful steps toward improving it.
Takeaways
Working on My Atlas challenged me to think about how complex health data could be translated into information that students could easily understand and act on. While wearable devices can collect a wealth of information, presenting that data in a way that feels meaningful rather than overwhelming is a different challenge altogether. This project pushed me to think beyond simply displaying information and consider how users might interpret it, what insights would actually be valuable to them, and how those insights could encourage healthier habits. It reinforced the importance of designing with a clear understanding of not just what information is available, but what users actually need from it. For a deeper dive into the My Atlas journey, here's a link to the Final Prototype.
