Mindful Planner

Where mindfulness meets with day to day planning
Project Overview
Back in 2017, after completing the first stage of a recruitment process at Todoist, I had an idea when replying to their questions. This idea was to combine mindfulness with tasking features inside a single app.
Context
Thanks to my meditation and mindfulness practice and after attending an 11 days silent Vipassana retreat, I started to observe several patterns and personal behaviors when facing tasking situation. In general tasking applications, lead the user to generate an important amount of lists and sub-lists along with reminders, quantitative statistics related to success in completing or failing a task which could be overwhelming for the user. This app aimed at reducing the quantitative aspect while focusing on the quality of the experience that is planned and recorded.
I initiated almost every aspect of the project and the app reached Beta testing. While it is on hold, the app is meant to be released in the near future. The app required a Business plan, completed interactive prototype, wireframes with rationals for hand off, archive of assets and deliverables, original meditation scripts, original recordings and edits, a landing page and several blog articles to present the product and the concept in French. Selin Ilgaz (accredited Mindfulness teacher), my wife, supervised the writing of the scripts and the recordings.

Excerpts from the business plan

The product is destined to a young audience in the process of entering a professional life and to older people whom are in the course of a professional career. The application will be able to support people who feel overwhelmed by their daily life in big cities as well as those who already have an idea of mindfulness and its application.

There are more and more meditation apps nowadays and the demand is constantly growing. The app provides solutions for both tasking and learning mindfulness meditation. It is a tool that can be of interest to those who constantly need to organize their day according to their professional activities while wanting to save some well-being moments: alone, with family, with friends, in sport ... and above all to learn to enjoy it.

Design process

The Design process included Competitor analysis to understand what the current trends were for both meditation and tasking apps and interviews with people that practice meditation and that have a busy life. Prototyping was done roughly with a pen and paper at first and with GIMP and Photoshop on a second stage. Below is an early version of the wireframe which later versions were handed off to developers.
Product development
UX, UI, Start Up founder
Photoshop | Invision | moqups.com