UX/UI – jklchow.com

Mind Matters

…because the mind and mental health, these matter.

…because when one is suffering from depression, there are matters that still need to be attended to. This app allows for a structured way to mind such matters, under the guidance of a mental health professional, to focus on maintain and improving patient progress.

When started work on this mobile application, there were very few apps on the market that could be considered helpful, much less based on actual medical practices, patient needs, or being at all sensitive or empathetic to those who suffer from depression. This gap is where I want MindMatters to exist. Today, self-help apps have become much more popular, with more thoughtful features and visual pleasing interfaces. But they usually shy just short of providing a complete support structure for their users/patients, understandably, because it is a completely different arena when entering medical practice, like being HIPAA compliant.

In order to be effective, however, it is essential for those who are suffering from their mental health to seek help from medical professionals. Having a support structure of professionals, family and friends is a great value to any person, but are essential for the survival and improvement of mental health patients.

Below are a selection of slides to better help understand and visualize MindMatters.


research	mission statement addressing professionals	competitive analysis


competitive analysis	qualitative analysis	app focus


persona overview	persona: patient 1	persona: patient 2


persona: professional 1	persona: professional 2	user analysis


features matrix	features matrix	features matrix


sitemap	user scenarios: new	user scenarios: returning


basic wireframes	basic wireframes	user evaluation

Advisor Adviser was created to be the adviser to high school advisors (the spellings are interchangeable, though my students seemed to prefer “advisor”). This web browser-based interface was designed to provide structure and infrastructure, and to collect, organize and disseminate information and images, first for the journalism department of high schools, and later to all clubs and organizations on campus.

There are two reasons why I decided to launch with the journalism department on campus. First, the journalism department is the hub of information and news. Between yearbooks (publications, historical records), newspapers (periodicals and web management, immediate coverage) and broadcasting (audio and video records, immediate coverage), there is a need for a simple but robust, secure but versatile infrastructure that can handle the needs of administrators, advisors (teachers), staff (students), and their audience (family, community, etc). Second, with my 7 years as a yearbook advisor, I was already exposed to industry attempts at building these types of infrastructures.

Below are some slides to better help understand and visualize Advisor Adviser.