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Project Overview
Moodbug is a user centered, social platform allowing young people to monitor and change their mental wellbeing.
Users share their moods and can uplift the mood of another by sending virtual gifts. A user is able to log their activities each day to establish what contributes to how they’re feeling and set to make every day as happy as it can be!
Nomination Commissioner
Mind Apples
Nomination Creator
Gospelware
Team
Project Manager: Phil Wright
Coding: Peter McAtominey
Design: Paul Bingham
Project Brief
As the world becomes increasingly more online-social, the presence of text to express what we’re thinking can leave it often difficult to decipher the true emotion behind the writing.
The project set to us by Mindapples and funded by Innovation Labs was to create an app where users can easily express their moods in a forum where doing so is socially comfortable. This takes
Friends can connect, become aware of how each other is feeling and help each other to be in a great mood. Users can add a comment to their mood if they wish to explain why they feel how they do, friends can send virtual gifts to help to perk them up if they’re feeling a bit down.
Young people can feel reluctant to express their moods on social media without the fear of over-sharing or how they think it may come across. As Moodbug’s existence is centred around mood expression it provides a space where people sharing how they feel is typical and expected. What is shared and who to is in the user’s hands as there are 3 different ways to share; with everyone, all friends or selected friends.
Project Need
The app helps users to understand not just their own mind but also the mind and mood of others. Research into the concept showed that no other app existed that was for the purpose of sharing moods and generating a communal sense of well being.
Moodbug is promoting positivity and encouraging a collective interest in supporting one another by sharing happiness or helping friends who may not be feeling that good. It has been created and designed around the latest mood psychology research to accurately contribute to the well being of all users.
Psychologists describe moods as a product of energy and tension, saying that we perform best when we are calm. Moodbug allows users to get together, join efforts and help to alter each others moods for the better.
User Experience
Moods are able to be shared easily with a two-swipe system and each user experience is customised with our design of 25 emoticons to represent each feeling. The design is unthreatening and offers a place of serenity with the use of merging colours that represent the different emotions.
With psychologists describing moods as a product of energy and tension stating that we perform best when we are calm, Moodbug provides a space where users can help to alter each others moods for the better. Because it works from the contacts in the phonebook, it makes the platform more private and users can feel more comfortable about sharing.
A mood tracker lets users view logged mood information and helps them to notice any patterns as acknowledging moods as a series is the first step in recognising how to challenge them. Logged activities can be input along with moods to see if there is any relation between the two. If so, users can look back on their moods, remember how they felt and recognise potential triggers.
Stats are recorded based on the logged info which show most popular moods, total number of moods posted and the most popular moods of friends. It’s also possible to view how many gifts have been received, who they are from and which mood it was for.
Project Marketing
The marketing of Moodbug is organised by Innovation Labs and Comic Relief. Our build of the app is marketed through our social media channels and our blog.
Project Privacy
The app works on a private and secure premise where users outside of an individuals personal phone contacts are not able to be added to their network. If somebody isn’t saved in a user’s phonebook then they are unable to be added. Users can only sign up to the app if they verify their phone number, thus ensuring they are who they say they are.
There are 3 levels of sharing; everyone (anyone can see), all friends (all of a user’s added friends from contacts), specific (tagging of selected friends). It is the user’s discretion on every update who they wish to share their mood with. The information is protected by SSL which also protects all content from 3rd party sharing.
Not For Profit
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