Student Mental Health App

In the first half of my Applied Product Management course with Tacit Edge and SAIT (May-June 2025), I had the opportunity to pursue a passion project in a 6-week timeframe. From a mental health datathon that I participated in in April 2025, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to see if I could help with post-secondary student mental health.

After deciding on this problem, I conducted secondary research, put out a survey to connections targeting undergraduate students, and did user interviews for more in-depth conversations. I loved getting to both better understand and empathize with user perspectives, and fall in love with the problem.

After getting problem validation and ideas for what could help students with their mental health, I brainstormed solutions with classmates and ChatGPT, and then picked two prototypes I could create and test in the remaining two weeks. Lovable made this very feasible, and after getting feedback on both prototypes (StudyBuddy and MindMate), I created a vision, strategy, and focus areas for the hypothetical future of continuing with this product.

This journey had to be shared in a 7-minute presentation with my class, which I got great feedback on! You can see more information on what I compiled for this project in my PowerPoint.