Serenify is a community platform for everyone who needs a support system to go through their mental health and life’s struggles. We strongly believe that everyone can live their life to the fullest and achieve their greatest life aspirations if they have a supportive community behind them. Like a fuel that drives anything that is moving on this planet, we strive to create an innovative human-centered platform that our community of users can rely on to help them navigate life challenges and achieve the success they desire.
Project Overview
Consistent with our goals of empowering future leaders to lead with purpose while bringing benevolent changes to their community, our major initiatives for 2022 revolves around the current issues of mental health in our community.
This project was created with the intent to help Asian college students who suffer from mental health issues/concerns by providing access to the right resources. Our goal is to create a platform that will enable them to get the help they need. Through this project, we aspire to destigmatize mental health discussion among the AAPI youth community by creating awareness about the topic and providing easy access to resources.
Our team designed the Serenify platform to help the youth in High School and College to overcome their life's struggles, hardship and mental health concerns by working with them to build their confidence through passion projects and compassionate care group.
This project was created with the intent to help Asian college students who suffer from mental health issues/concerns by providing access to the right resources. Our goal is to create a platform that will enable them to get the help they need. Through this project, we aspire to destigmatize mental health discussion among the AAPI youth community by creating awareness about the topic and providing easy access to resources.
Our team designed the Serenify platform to help the youth in High School and College to overcome their life's struggles, hardship and mental health concerns by working with them to build their confidence through passion projects and compassionate care group.
The Pain PointWe started the project with a User Research where we collected survey responses and interviews from our target demographic (high school and college students). Our research findings pointed to a concerning pattern of mental health issues among the youth in our community where external factor such as parental pressure to perform academically and/or getting into a very competitive field of study, social stigma to discuss any mental health issues or symptoms, and social/familial pressure to abide by certain cultural beliefs that has led to many of them to suffer from chronic stress and depression that affect their overall wellbeing.
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Our Solutions
To address the pain point discovered during the User Research process, and to create a solution that can best help our target audience, we conducted a series of further analysis to come up with our user persona, platform design guidelines and features. In addition, our team also developed an initial social media strategy plan to spread the awareness about our work and to engage prospective users.
After performing a comprehensive design and fundamental platform design work, we ended up with our first minimum viable product (Serenify MVP 1) that offers a combination of therapist directory and access to popular psychological test for our users. We close the first phase of the project by conducting a small focus-group/user testing with actual users from our target demography who claims to have mental health concerns and are looking for a solution.
After performing a comprehensive design and fundamental platform design work, we ended up with our first minimum viable product (Serenify MVP 1) that offers a combination of therapist directory and access to popular psychological test for our users. We close the first phase of the project by conducting a small focus-group/user testing with actual users from our target demography who claims to have mental health concerns and are looking for a solution.
The Journey Continues
We are not done yet! Our team just completed the first iteration of our Minimum Viable Product (MVP1). We have gathered crucial feedback from our user testers and we are preparing for building our next iteration with the goal of launching Serenify.Beta in Winter 2023.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates about our progress!
Stay tuned for more exciting updates about our progress!
Meet the Serenify Project Team
At the Young Leaders Program, we offer a unique Experiential Learning where our team members (mostly College students from various field of study) were divided into different functional teams and work under the supervision of industry professionals from industries such as Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science/Engineering, Management/Technology Consulting, and UI/UX Design.
At Serenify, nine talented students were grouped into specific functional teams listed below:
- User Interface Design & User Experience Design Team
- Backend & Technical Team
- Data Management & Data Architecture Team
- Public Relations & Marketing Team
