UX/UI Design · App Design
Journaling & Mood Tracker App
A mobile app designed to help users build a daily journaling habit and track their emotional wellbeing. The goal: make self-reflection feel approachable, personal, and calming while gathering data for personal reflection or as a tool in therapy sessions.
Design a journaling and mood-tracking app that motivates consistent daily use through gentle prompts, visual mood data, and a calm, welcoming interface.
Many journaling apps feel overwhelming or too structured. Users abandon them quickly. The challenge was to create something flexible enough for any journaling style while still providing meaningful mood insights.
A minimal, prompt-driven interface with optional mood tags and a visual mood calendar — so users can write freely or follow a guided flow, depending on how they feel that day.
User interviews and surveys revealed that people want to journal but struggle with consistency. The biggest barriers: not knowing what to write, apps feeling too formal, and not seeing progress over time.
Sketching and wireframing focused on a low-friction entry point — a single daily prompt on the home screen, with mood tagging built into the writing flow rather than as a separate step. This intentional design keeps the user freely flowing through the app without over-thinking.
Koulen
New Day.
Khand Regular
A Journal and Mood Tracker
Tested with 5 participants. Key finding: users wanted the mood selector to appear after writing, not before — so it feels like a reflection rather than a label.
Adjusted the entry flow, simplified the navigation, and added a weekly mood summary card to the home screen based on feedback.
This project pushed me to design for emotional sensitivity — every color, font size, and interaction had to feel gentle and calming. I learned how much small UX decisions (like when to ask for a mood rating) shape a user's relationship with an journaling app.
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