2025
Personal Project
Figma Prototype
Problem Statement
As someone who’s felt the pressure to stay productive while trying to care for my own well-being, I often found myself juggling task managers, meditation apps, and wellness trackers, only to feel more scattered. I'm not alone in this. For many professionals, the struggle to stay focused without burning out is real. The disconnect between these tools makes balance harder, not easier. This led me to explore how a more unified, human-centered system could better support both work and wellness.
Product Description
SteadySync is a digital tool designed to unify task management and mental wellness in one seamless experience. It helps users organize and prioritize their work while encouraging regular wellness breaks and easy access to mental health specialists. By bringing these elements together in a single interface, SteadySync supports sustainable productivity and helps prevent burnout before it starts.
User Personas and Early Exploration
The design process began by mapping key user flows to understand how users would navigate core features like task management and wellness breaks, identifying potential friction points early. With these flows in place, I developed detailed user personas to represent primary users balancing productivity and wellness, ensuring the design remained empathetic and user-focused. Building on this foundation, I created paper prototypes to quickly explore layout and interaction ideas, gathering early feedback that revealed usability issues and informed subsequent design iterations.
User Interviews and Low-Fidelity Wireframes
Following paper prototyping, I conducted user interviews to deepen my understanding of user needs and pain points. These conversations revealed the importance of balancing short-term task focus with long-term goal visibility, and the desire for personalized wellness breaks that fit seamlessly into daily routines. Using these insights, I developed low-fidelity wireframes emphasizing clear task separation, intuitive navigation, and improved button visibility. Usability testing at this stage informed important changes, such as reordering the Focus session interface to reduce cognitive load by prioritizing session duration before audio settings.
High-Fidelity Wireframes and Prototyping
With validated low-fidelity designs, I transitioned to high-fidelity wireframes in Figma to refine visual consistency and interaction design. Key improvements included adding text labels to navigation icons for better clarity, enhancing the prominence of the Add Task button as a primary call to action, and restructuring screens for intuitive flows. Interactive prototypes enabled think-aloud usability testing, which helped uncover additional refinements to improve user control and minimize confusion. This iterative, user-centered approach ensured SteadySync’s design balanced productivity and wellness in a seamless, accessible interface.
Ethical Considerations
SteadySync reimagines productivity as a balance between action and rest, integrating wellness into daily planning to promote mindful habits and reduce burnout. It challenges “grind culture” by valuing mental well-being alongside task completion. Moving forward, AI features should be opt-in, transparent, and user-controlled. The app must support, not replace, offline care and personal judgment, while prioritizing accessibility and inclusivity for diverse cognitive, cultural, and literacy needs.