Pinsoul
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www.pinsoul.com
Psychological Therapy App
Company
Wavinfo
Platfrom
iOS, Android
Date
2016-2017
Pinsoul is a project founded by a group of psychological therapists in the hope of helping people live a better life through the concept of sharing. By using this app, people can trace their feelings and share it with others or professionals in psychology. Moreover, it offers resources, inspiration, consulting and community to help you change your approach to mental health and open the door for healthier connection.
《Pinsoul》計劃是由一群心理諮商師所發起的計劃，希望透過共享創造一個讓我們過得更好的平台。透過行動化的服務，是訊息的傳遞，讓我們共享心理健康的理念，拉近人與人之間彼此的距離。
CONTRIBUTIONS
Visual Design
Graphic Design
UX Research
UX Experience Design
Interface Design
Pinsoul style guide
WHAT IS PINSOUL
All the tiny things or the little details happened in life can contribute to fluctuating emotions, and, if one falls often into the hole of negativity, one might just lose passion for life and feel disappointed of oneself. However, Pinsoul starts out with the motto “make people live better”. With Pinsoul App, users can record their everyday mood, browse the website to see all the blogs relating to topics of psychology and find their own identity in order to lead a better life day by day.
An App based on scientific research
Based on numerous counseling cases and scientific researches from a group of psychological therapists, Pinsoul is born and implements a simple 2x2 diagram for user to intuitively mark out their emotions: X axes represents the scale of positivity of emotion and Y axes represents the intensity of the emotion.
HOW TO USE PINSOUL
Delicate visual design enables an intuitive way to interact with it
In the developing process, we looked into the interaction effect between decision-making and perception and, by changing both gradient color and color brightness, we turn emotion diagram into visual elements that can be easily perceived and understood by users. To record emotion on the App is pretty simple and intuitive, you simply drag the dot around in order to change the facial expression of the emoji to the one that best matches yours. When you drag the dot to the right, the corners of the mouth curve up to represent a good mood through the smiley emoji. And, when moving in opposite direction, the lips bring down to represent a bad mood. In addition to horizontal scale, the vertical scale is meant for the intensity that one is feeling of the emotion. So, you can drag the dot upwards to show that the feeling of the emotion is strong and vice versa.
Highly visualized information reduces perceptual differences
Once the matching emoji is set, you can simply release the dot and type in your story or thoughts below. This record will be then stored in “My Mood” list in order for you to trace back to the past emotions any time. In addition to the mood record, you can also check the graphical statistics about your emotion in percentage, your daily emotional fluctuation and intensity of physical feelings. With all these functions, it helps you getting to know about yourself to stay psychologically healthy and you may eventually spread the positive energy to the others. The 2x2 diagram offers user to position their emotion by drag a dot around in order for them to describe their emotion much more precise and, thus, the data can be much meaningful for therapists to detect the tiniest change comparing to describing it in words which oftentimes lead to confusion and misunderstanding.
A blog that makes us better
The articles in the blogs make the information about psychology more available for the public, so that the awareness of mental health could be promoted in order to increase the public’s insight into their illness.
Pinsoul combines Psychology with Technology for users to explore themselves and to share their stories simply on the App. Furthermore, we also hope to make great use of the data collected from each individuals for services that promote mental health in order to change the social climate and the way we interact with one another.