UX/UI Design for Mobile App

I did this project as my thesis. The title of my thesis was: " Development of a Mobile Application for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment: Usability, Accessibility and Pleasure". In my thesis, I investigated mobile applications that had been designed to help patients with borderline personality disorder(BPD), and I designed and prototyped a mobile application that addresses the weaknesses of previous solutions, particularly user experience(UX) and user interface(UI) design.

The application development process involved researching applications, concepts, and design. in the research phase, I found gaps in previous applications and aimed to fill them in my study. In the concept phase, Ideas were generated based on my research findings; sketching was implemented during this phase. I utilized a paper and pen to draw the sketch and, in some cases, wireframing was used. In the design phase, I came up with Ideas in order to obtain visual elements. Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe XD were utilized to prototype the application.

According to previous studies in this field, there were some issues related to user experience of these mobile applications listed below. For example(Washburn and Parrish, 2013; Junior, 2018; Alqahtani and Orji, 2020) have identified the following problems with current BPD mHealth tools:

• Poorly attractive and engaging(Rizvi, Hughes, and Thomas, 2016; Derks et al., 2019; Washburn and Parrish, 2013)

• Unsatisfactory usability, Lack of variety of options, Lack of personalization, Lack of security, Lack of control(Alqahtani and Orji, 2020)

• Difficulties identifying the clickable objects of the interface, and difficulties returning to the apps' main screen(Junior, 2018)

• Problems in page navigation(Derks et al., 2019; Washburn and Parrish, 2013; Junior, 2018)

• Confusing, it was not easy to learn(Washburn and Parrish, 2013)

• Lack of an option to add note by patients, Lack of an option to share note with therapist, Lack of option for diary cards to share them to the therapist(Washburn and Parrish, 2013)

You can click here to check the prototype.