Deep Sharing Mobile APP - Case Study

Deep Sharing

Deep Sharing is a new way to begin or maintain your recovery. We cater to moderation management and sobriety. Find and rate meetings, track your progress with custom daily goals with the suppot of our community.

Completely revamped interface with many new features to make your recovery more enjoyable and successful.

Duration: 3 monthPlatform: Mobile App (iOS)

Main Feature:• Deep Share• Real-life meeting• Meditation Room• Inspiration• Book discussion• Light Chat

Overview & Challenge

• Brainstorming & Research• Personas & User interviews• Ideation & Usability Testing• Prototyping• Presentation

Contribution

List of functionality that exists on competing or comparable Apps/Sites

Document Summaries - UI Patterns

Who are involved?• Anyone who’s looking for recoverying meeting.• Session facilitators are spiritual teachers or community builders who want to give back and bring their stable and calm

presence to help create a place of solace for many others or those who aspire to learn these skills.

Whataretheservicesoffered?• Deep Share• Real-life meeting• Meditation Room• Inspiration• Book discussion• Light Chat

Analyzing User DataWho, What

Where is this happening?• Online website and app• Local spiritual community groups that meet in person in the area When do people use this?Macro level:• Sometimes people feel alone and isolated and want to connect to a community of caring people• When people looking for a way to begain or maintain recovery

Micro level:• People will upload their picture or any user-generated contents such as poems, music, or writings after signing up or they can connect to

Facebook

Analyzing User DataWhere, When

Why are people involved?• Some people want a caring ear to listen to them and share their troubles and joy, especially in this age of quick, but shallow virtual inter-

action on social media• Some people want to give back and be kind to others by listening deeply, facilitating, and uploading inspiration contents• Somepeoplewanttotalktoorcollaboratewithotherswhoareinsimilarwalksoflifeorcareersorevenindifferentfields• Some people want to create a community and personal connections• Some people want to have motivation and connection with other practitioners to deepen their own spiritual and mindfulness practice as

well as learning from listening to others

How?• Download the app for free or browse the site• Map out meetings so you can see them• Save to calendar so you remember to go there• Check in to meetings so you can prove you were there• SOS alerts for times of need• Daily check-ins• Custom goals with audio/text response

Analyzing User DataWhy, How

• The AA meeting was a very social experience. Approximately 50 people were present; many people seemed to know each other andchattedovercoffeeandpastriesbeforethemeetingbegan.While the space respects anonymity, it seems to be quite social within a protected boundary of anonymity to outsiders. Our app should emphasize relationship building and facilitating in-per-son meetings.

• I noticed people looking around the room a lot. It seems like be-ingphysicallypresentenablespeopletoaffirmthatotherpeo-ple, just like them, are experiencing the same issues.

• To bring everyone to the same page, the meeting begins with a moment of silence and and serenity prayer.

• One speaker took the stage and shared her personal experi-ences for 30 minutes. Everyone was respectful and silent. May-be our app could let people sign up in advance to be the main speaker during a sharing session.

Visiting the Location, an AA meeting in Berkeley

Interview

We used card sorting to validate terminology and gain a better understanding of how the app will work.

Sticky Notes

As we conducted interviews, I created our personas so we could begin sketching out ideas for the app. The personaswererefinedaswe continued to gather data from our interviews.

Personas

we came up with the “Journal” feature which was later validated repeatedly.

Weproceededtofleshoutthisideaandeventuallydecided to merge the ideas.

Mobile Story Board

Further testing was done once the journal idea was integrated into our InVision prototype and responses were very positive overall.

Final Additions