Resonate

Body data resensitisation: Connecting emotionally with health without performance pressure.

Ensuring that young adults don’t feel overwhelmed by tracking their data through wearables, but instead connect with their body emotionally and mentally.

Role: Product Designer

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Timeline: 90 Days

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Team: 3-4 Members

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Tools: Figma, FigJam, Loveable

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Resonate app screens on phones and smartwatches showing readiness, insights and sleep score

Resonate Walkthrough

Watch the guided, empathetic experience in action. This video demonstrates the emotional connection our design system facilitates.

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Project Overview

The Problem

When users buy a wearable they are motivated and happy, but after some time they feel pressured or overwhelmed by looking at numbers (e.g. failing 10k steps goals).

This causes them to associate health tracking with guilt or failure, leading to massive disengagement.

🎯 Primary Goal

Develop a companion experience to ensure users don't feel overwhelmed by metrics. Connect them emotionally with their body and provide supportive, non-competitive accountability with friends.

👥 Users

• Users between 18-35 aiming for better health
• Urban & semi-urban professionals
• Students overwhelmed by digital fatigue
• Health-aware individuals (not elite athletes)

⚠️ Pain Points

• Notification fatigue and ignored alerts
• Overwhelming metrics and dashboards
• Loss of motivation after missing structured goals
• Disconnection from what health data implies

Project Snapshot

Concept

Body data resensitization

Goal

Emotional connection without pressure

Target

18-35 Urban Professionals

Vibe

Gentle, supportive, minimal

Result

Validating single-insight flows

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The 9-Lens Breakdown

A multidimensional analysis of the forces shaping emotional connection and physiological feedback.

📜Problem Context

Reducing cognitive overload and guilt in trackables.

Existing wearables try to improve engagement through more data, gamification, and streaks.
These approaches create cognitive overload and performance pressure over time.
Users associate tracking with guilt or failure when goals are inevitably missed.
Key insight: Prioritize emotional understanding over quantitative performance metrics.

Our research revealed that sustained engagement depends less on accuracy and more on emotional resonance. Users respond better to clear, contextual guidance than to complex dashboards.

🎯Target Audience

Designing for urban and semi-urban professionals.

Target audience: 18-35 age group, young adults and working professionals.
Moderate digital literacy and regular smartphone users.
Plagued by long work hours, digital fatigue, and irregular health routines.
Deep need for simple understanding without analyzing complex data.

The design avoids aggressive alerts or medicalized language, focusing on gentle nudges that fit naturally into everyday routines without adding to an already stressed lifestyle.

⚖️Ethical Design

Navigating privacy, digital ethics and accessibility.

Handled personal health-related data prioritizing GDPR principles and data minimization.
Promoted healthier technology use by reducing anxiety-driven engagement patterns.
Adjustable interaction intensity to align with distinct user emotional thresholds.
Clear human-language interpretations to replace technical jargon.

Privacy-first thinking guided the design. By limiting unnecessary data exposure and allowing optional sharing, we emphasized a supportive environment instead of a competitive fear-based one.

📊Data-Driven Design

Simplifying complex metrics into single actions.

Tracked dropping engagement patterns on existing fitness trackers within months.
Validated that users disengage due to notification fatigue and data overload.
Data translated into simplified visual metaphors and emotional states.
Avoided competitive leaderboards which discourage beginners.

Quantitative outcomes showed that transforming complex graphs into single actionable insights dramatically reduces decision fatigue and improves long-term retention.

⚙️Technical Architecture

Balancing functionality with hardware efficiency.

Sensors collect biometric signals without intensive visual display usage.
Watch delivers subtle haptic cues instead of disruptive bright alerts.
App interprets patterns into actionable guidance.
Accountability features reinforce behavioral follow-through.

We solved the challenge of limited smartwatch screen space by prioritizing glanceable information and subtle haptic feedback, shifting deeper insights to the mobile app.

🏆Gamification & Engagement

Creating an efficient, sustainable hybrid system.

Leveraged core biometric sensors while minimizing active screen-on time.
Extended device longevity by reducing power strain and frequent charging.
Focused exclusively on essential interactions instead of feature overload.
Avoided unnecessary medical claims from consumer-grade sensors.

The system avoids rapid feature obsolescence, ensuring long battery life and less dependency on frequent charging by deliberately avoiding aggressive visual outputs.

🔄Systems Design

Transforming physiological feedback into daily action.

Modeled the system around user habits, emotional states, and routines.
Body signals (sleep, stress, activity) are interpreted into behavioral responses.
Fostered social accountability to reinforce long-term organic habits.
Minimal visual interfaces reduce strain on user's biological sleep cycles.

Instead of building an isolated tracker, we built a living ecosystem. Resonate helps users translate their own biological feedback into meaningful, supportive daily actions.

🧠Behavioral Psychology

Shifting from performance pressure to emotional connection.

Reduced cognitive load with emotion-first, empathetic communication.
Fostered supportive accountability instead of toxic leaderboards and competition.
Progressive disclosure of data prevents the initial shock of complex numbers.
Designed specifically against the guilt-trap of missed step goals.

By abandoning judgmental metrics, we ensured users receive supportive feedback, building long-term engagement without the anxiety of failing arbitrary numerical goals.

🎨Visual Design & UI

A minimal journey from anxiety to gentle reassurance.

Designed to feel like an emotional, romantic, happy-ending movie.
Uses a rich palette of calm greens and pristine whites to evoke peace.
The user is positioned as the quiet hero finding their balance without pressure.
Every animation and interaction tells the story: 'we are not here to judge'.

The visual language uses aesthetic restraint to reassure users, giving them a calm, green-tinted, supportive space to connect with their own body without the noise.

The Process

From understanding wearable burnout to a calmer, single-insight companion experience.

Phase 01

Research

Interviews with young adults who had abandoned a fitness wearable
Diary-style prompts on how tracking made them feel across a week
Competitor teardown of mainstream wearable dashboards
Synthesis into three behaviour patterns: guilt, comparison and numbness

Outcome: Disengagement was emotional, not functional — numbers made people feel judged.

Phase 02

Ideation & explorations

How Might We help someone feel their body data instead of scoring it
Explored streak-free framings, body-map check-ins and narrative summaries
Killed leaderboards and goal streaks early after negative reactions
Landed on one gentle insight per day as the core interaction

Outcome: A non-competitive model where reflection replaces performance.

Phase 03

Information architecture & flows

Three top-level areas only: Journal, Insights, Me
Designed the check-in flow: feeling → body location → contributing factor
Weekly insight built as a story, not a dashboard
Supportive accountability with friends kept private by default

Outcome: A structure that stays calm even as data accumulates.

Phase 04

Usability testing & iteration

Clickable prototype tested with target-age participants
Measured comprehension of the insight card and willingness to check in daily
Softened colour and copy where the tone still felt clinical
Removed numeric scores from the home screen after testing feedback

Outcome: Single-insight flows tested as the clearest and least pressuring option.

Screens & Visuals

Screens from the companion experience — calm surfaces, soft data and language that never scores the user.

Design System

A soft, low-arousal kit: muted greens, generous radii and typography sized for calm reading rather than dense dashboards.

Colour tokens

Primary #10B981
Positive states, primary action
Surface #FAFAF7
App background
Card #FFFFFF
Elevated content
Ink #18181B
Headings and body copy
Muted #71717A
Secondary labels, captions

Type scale

Display32px
Body energy
Title22px
How are you feeling?
Body16px
Your body is in a calm state

Core components

Insight cardMood chipBody-map selectorSoft ring chartReflection entryGentle nudge bannerBottom navigation

Developer handoff

All cards use a single 20px radius and one elevation level
Motion limited to 200ms ease-out fades — no celebratory animation
Copy rules documented: no “failed”, “missed” or “streak” language
Colour pairs checked for WCAG AA on both light and dark surfaces