AmplifyHeart
A heart-health app designed to help people build healthier habits through simple actions, clear feedback, and a more supportive daily experience.
Role: UX / UI Design
Timeline: Phase 1 project
Focus: Research, concept development, wireframes, testing, and final UI design
AmplifyHeart was created to make heart care feel more approachable, motivating, and easier to maintain over time. Instead of overwhelming users with data, the project focused on turning health-related actions into small, clear steps supported by a calm interface and positive reinforcement.
A heart-health app designed to help people build healthier habits through simple actions, clear feedback, and a more supportive daily experience.
Role: UX / UI Design
Timeline: Phase 1 project
Focus: Research, concept development, wireframes, testing, and final UI design
AmplifyHeart was created to make heart care feel more approachable, motivating, and easier to maintain over time. Instead of overwhelming users with data, the project focused on turning health-related actions into small, clear steps supported by a calm interface and positive reinforcement.
A heart-health app designed to help people build healthier habits through simple actions, clear feedback, and a more supportive daily experience.
Role: UX / UI Design
Timeline: Phase 1 project
Focus: Research, concept development, wireframes, testing, and final UI design
AmplifyHeart was created to make heart care feel more approachable, motivating, and easier to maintain over time. Instead of overwhelming users with data, the project focused on turning health-related actions into small, clear steps supported by a calm interface and positive reinforcement.
Overview
AmplifyHeart is a heart-health app designed for people who want to take better care of themselves but struggle to stay consistent with everyday habits. The goal was to create an experience that feels simple, encouraging, and easy to return to, even for users who may already feel overwhelmed by health information.
Rather than presenting heart health as something clinical or intimidating, the product reframes it as a series of manageable daily actions. The app focuses on clarity, emotional reassurance, and habit support, helping users feel more in control of their progress.
The Problem
Overview
Many people want to improve their heart health, but staying consistent is difficult when motivation is low and progress feels invisible. Health apps often rely too heavily on numbers, alerts, or complexity, which can make users feel pressured rather than supported.
The problem was not a lack of interest in better health. It was the gap between intention and action. Users needed a product that could make healthy choices feel more achievable, more visible, and less mentally exhausting in everyday life.
AmplifyHeart is a heart-health app designed for people who want to take better care of themselves but struggle to stay consistent with everyday habits. The goal was to create an experience that feels simple, encouraging, and easy to return to, even for users who may already feel overwhelmed by health information.
Rather than presenting heart health as something clinical or intimidating, the product reframes it as a series of manageable daily actions. The app focuses on clarity, emotional reassurance, and habit support, helping users feel more in control of their progress.
The Problem
Many people want to improve their heart health, but staying consistent is difficult when motivation is low and progress feels invisible. Health apps often rely too heavily on numbers, alerts, or complexity, which can make users feel pressured rather than supported.
The problem was not a lack of interest in better health. It was the gap between intention and action. Users needed a product that could make healthy choices feel more achievable, more visible, and less mentally exhausting in everyday life.
Overview
AmplifyHeart is a heart-health app designed for people who want to take better care of themselves but struggle to stay consistent with everyday habits. The goal was to create an experience that feels simple, encouraging, and easy to return to, even for users who may already feel overwhelmed by health information.
Rather than presenting heart health as something clinical or intimidating, the product reframes it as a series of manageable daily actions. The app focuses on clarity, emotional reassurance, and habit support, helping users feel more in control of their progress.
Research
To better understand user needs, I combined interviews with visual synthesis methods that helped translate raw feedback into product direction. The research process included storyboarding, affinity mapping, and persona development, allowing me to move from individual observations to broader behavioral patterns.
Storyboard
The storyboard helped visualize the user’s emotional journey with the smartwatch throughout the day. It highlighted moments of confusion, frustration, and low battery anxiety, which made the experience feel unreliable at the exact moments users wanted support the most.
Affinity Mapping
I used affinity mapping to cluster interview observations into recurring themes. The strongest patterns showed that users valued convenience and health awareness, but were repeatedly frustrated by poor battery life, generic reminders, and limited support for meaningful health management.
Personas
These insights were then translated into personas that represented two different user mindsets: one more motivated by health, routine, and long-term wellbeing, and another more focused on appearance, energy, and daily encouragement. This helped define both emotional and functional needs more clearly.
The Problem
Many people want to improve their heart health, but staying consistent is difficult when motivation is low and progress feels invisible. Health apps often rely too heavily on numbers, alerts, or complexity, which can make users feel pressured rather than supported.
The problem was not a lack of interest in better health. It was the gap between intention and action. Users needed a product that could make healthy choices feel more achievable, more visible, and less mentally exhausting in everyday life.
Research
To better understand user needs, I combined interviews with visual synthesis methods that helped translate raw feedback into product direction. The research process included storyboarding, affinity mapping, and persona development, allowing me to move from individual observations to broader behavioral patterns.
Storyboard
The storyboard helped visualize the user’s emotional journey with the smartwatch throughout the day. It highlighted moments of confusion, frustration, and low battery anxiety, which made the experience feel unreliable at the exact moments users wanted support the most.
Affinity Mapping
I used affinity mapping to cluster interview observations into recurring themes. The strongest patterns showed that users valued convenience and health awareness, but were repeatedly frustrated by poor battery life, generic reminders, and limited support for meaningful health management.
Personas
These insights were then translated into personas that represented two different user mindsets: one more motivated by health, routine, and long-term wellbeing, and another more focused on appearance, energy, and daily encouragement. This helped define both emotional and functional needs more clearly.
Design Direction
Together, these artifacts made the opportunity clearer: the product needed to feel less like a generic fitness tracker and more like a supportive, personalized health companion. The design direction therefore focused on clarity, motivation, relevant reminders, and better support for real-life health goal.
Usability Testing
Usability testing played an important role in refining the experience. One of the clearest findings was that users wanted more visible feedback when they completed an action, such as adding a glass of water. Without that response, the interaction felt less satisfying and less complete.
Based on this feedback, I focused on making actions feel more rewarding and easier to understand. The design became more responsive, with clearer moments of confirmation that supported motivation and reinforced progress,
Testing also show ed that users perc eived th e app as simple, aesthetically pleasing, and easy to engage with. That validated the direction of keeping the interface calm, lightweight, and visually reassuring.
Final Design
The final design of AmplifyHeart focuses on clarity, encouragement, and emotional ease. The interface was designed to make heart-health habits feel more approachable by combining simple interaction patterns with a clean visual system and supportive feedback.
Rather than overwhelming users with dense metrics, the product highlights everyday actions and small wins. This creates a more human experience, where progress feels visible and the interface supports consistency instead of pressure.
The final result is a heart-health experience that feels polished, gentle, and motivating. It is designed to support real behavior change through simplicity, visual clarity, and positive reinforcement.
Outcome
The strongest outcome of this project was the shift toward a more supportive model of health interaction. AmplifyHeart developed into a concept that values not only usability, but also emotional clarity and motivation.
The project demonstrates how a health-focused product can become more effective when it reduces friction, confirms progress clearly, and helps users build confidence through small repeated actions.
Design Direction
Together, these artifacts made the opportunity clearer: the product needed to feel less like a generic fitness tracker and more like a supportive, personalized health companion. The design direction therefore focused on clarity, motivation, relevant reminders, and better support for real-life health goal.
Usability Testing
Usability testing played an important role in refining the experience. One of the clearest findings was that users wanted more visible feedback when they completed an action, such as adding a glass of water. Without that response, the interaction felt less satisfying and less complete.
Based on this feedback, I focused on making actions feel more rewarding and easier to understand. The design became more responsive, with clearer moments of confirmation that supported motivation and reinforced progress,
Testing also show ed that users perc eived th e app as simple, aesthetically pleasing, and easy to engage with. That validated the direction of keeping the interface calm, lightweight, and visually reassuring.
Link to the Protoype:
https://www.figtma.com/proto/kt1ICv9DjLyF6y6qeJNkpr/High-Fidelity-Prototyping?node-id=95-2063&t=HvlKf46FQ6Jkhbat-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=61%3A1120&starting-point-node-id=121%3A2802
Reflection
AmplifyHeart reinforced the idea that good health design is not only about presenting information clearly, but also about making people feel capable of taking action. Small moments of confirmation can have a major impact on motivation, especially in products built around long-term habit change.
It also showed how important it is to design with emotional tone in mind. In this case, the goal was not simply to track health, but to make heart care feel more supportive, more achievable, and less overwhelming.
Final Design
The final design of AmplifyHeart focuses on clarity, encouragement, and emotional ease. The interface was designed to make heart-health habits feel more approachable by combining simple interaction patterns with a clean visual system and supportive feedback.
Rather than overwhelming users with dense metrics, the product highlights everyday actions and small wins. This creates a more human experience, where progress feels visible and the interface supports consistency instead of pressure.
The final result is a heart-health experience that feels polished, gentle, and motivating. It is designed to support real behavior change through simplicity, visual clarity, and positive reinforcement.
Outcome
The strongest outcome of this project was the shift toward a more supportive model of health interaction. AmplifyHeart developed into a concept that values not only usability, but also emotional clarity and motivation.
The project demonstrates how a health-focused product can become more effective when it reduces friction, confirms progress clearly, and helps users build confidence through small repeated actions.
Link to the Protoype:
https://www.figtma.com/proto/kt1ICv9DjLyF6y6qeJNkpr/High-Fidelity-Prototyping?node-id=95-2063&t=HvlKf46FQ6Jkhbat-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=61%3A1120&starting-point-node-id=121%3A2802
Link to the Protoype:
https://www.figtma.com/proto/kt1ICv9DjLyF6y6qeJNkpr/High-Fidelity-Prototyping?node-id=95-2063&t=HvlKf46FQ6Jkhbat-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=61%3A1120&starting-point-node-id=121%3A2802
Reflection
AmplifyHeart reinforced the idea that good health design is not only about presenting information clearly, but also about making people feel capable of taking action. Small moments of confirmation can have a major impact on motivation, especially in products built around long-term habit change.
It also showed how important it is to design with emotional tone in mind. In this case, the goal was not simply to track health, but to make heart care feel more supportive, more achievable, and less overwhelming.