Overview

Services

Brand Identity

Creative Direction

Illustration

Product Design

UX Design

In partnership with GoZen!, an organization focused on creating learning tools to support children’s mental health, I was brought on to concept and design an interactive journaling app for kids and teens. The goal: to foster emotional learning, support mental well-being, and empower both users and their families through the digital journaling and workbooks.

Throughout the project, I led creative direction, product architecture, and UX strategy, and developed the brand identity - including all original illustrations shown as part of that identity - for the final product. Once the core UX was established and the brand identity was approved, I handed off UI responsibilities to another designer, who led final design execution and development.

Overview

Services

Brand Identity

Creative Direction

Illustration

Product Design

UX Design

In partnership with GoZen!, an organization focused on creating learning tools to support children’s mental health, I was brought on to concept and design an interactive journaling app for kids and teens. The goal: to foster emotional learning, support mental well-being, and empower both users and their families through the digital journaling and workbooks.

Throughout the project, I led creative direction, product architecture, and UX strategy, and developed the brand identity - including all original illustrations shown as part of that identity - for the final product. Once the core UX was established and the brand identity was approved, I handed off UI responsibilities to another designer, who led final design execution and development.

Overview

Services

Brand Identity

Creative Direction

Illustration

Product Design

UX Design

In partnership with GoZen!, an organization focused on creating learning tools to support children’s mental health, I was brought on to concept and design an interactive journaling app for kids and teens. The goal: to foster emotional learning, support mental well-being, and empower both users and their families through the digital journaling and workbooks.

Throughout the project, I led creative direction, product architecture, and UX strategy, and developed the brand identity - including all original illustrations shown as part of that identity - for the final product. Once the core UX was established and the brand identity was approved, I handed off UI responsibilities to another designer, who led final design execution and development.

Overview

Services

Brand Identity

Creative Direction

Illustration

Product Design

UX Design

In partnership with GoZen!, an organization focused on creating learning tools to support children’s mental health, I was brought on to concept and design an interactive journaling app for kids and teens. The goal: to foster emotional learning, support mental well-being, and empower both users and their families through the digital journaling and workbooks.

Throughout the project, I led creative direction, product architecture, and UX strategy, and developed the brand identity - including all original illustrations shown as part of that identity - for the final product. Once the core UX was established and the brand identity was approved, I handed off UI responsibilities to another designer, who led final design execution and development.

Product details

Platforms

iOS

iPad

User Types

Child User (12 and younger)

Teen User (13 and older)

Adult (admin)

Feature set

Security

Single Sign On

Two Factor Authentication

Passcode Creation

Dashboard

Daily Check-In

Challenge Prompts

Badge Unlock (stickers)

Account Management

Manage Users

Content Filtering by User

Premium Subscription Tier

Payment Processing (ApplePay)

Push Notifications

Account Creation

New User Onboarding (distinct flows for children, teens, adults)

User Dashboard (JurnaRoom)

Library

Create & Edit Journals

Add & Edit Text

Native iOS/iPadOS Pencil Toolkit

User Calendar & Availability Management

Color Selection

Add Sticker

Artboard Zoom & Rotation

Share Journals

Design process

Design process

Design process

The design process began with a half-day exploratory workshop with GoZen! to align on goals and gather feature requirements. From there, I led a series of internal, iterative whiteboarding sessions to explore ideas in higher fidelity, map out initial user flows, and refine the product’s structure before passing them to a UX designer to build out low-fidelity wireframes. Once the initial low-fidelity wireframes were approved, they were sent into user testing (via. UserTesting.com) and revised based on meaningful, user feedback.

Design process flow showing how UX and brand identity are worked on in tandem

Primary user personas used throughout the design process

Preliminary UX whiteboarding, created in Figjam

Preliminary user flow charting, created in Figjam

Brand identity

Brand identity

Brand identity

As the feature set, user flows, and the UX were refined, I began crafting the brand identity for Jurna, shaping the visual language that would be used across the UI of the final product as well as all future Jurna marketing materials. Working closely with the client, I ensured the brand felt playful yet inclusive, thoughtfully designed to resonate with a diverse, gender-neutral audience ranging from ages 7 to 15.

Initial moodboards used for setting visual direction

App design

App design

App design

As mentioned, once Jurna's brand identity was established and creative direction was set, final UI was handed off to a separate designer to complete. This final UI constitutes a majority of the app creative shown below.

Footage provided by getjurna.com

Splash + home

Splash + home

Library, journals, daily check-in

Library, journals, daily check-in

Challenges

Challenges

Edit journal

Edit journal

Cross-device UX

Cross-device UX