Cohesu is an app designed to help every human being understand the impact their choices have on themselves and the world. The goal is to create awareness in topics that move nowadays world, such as health, environmental sustainability and sustainable consumption, whilst changing real lives.
Areas
UI & UX
App Design
Gamification
Tools
Adobe XD
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Concept
The app revolves around three main areas of interest for the user: health; consumption; sustainability. In this area the user can understand their impact and change their habits with the minimum effort possible.
How it works
The user registers information throughout the days/ weeks/ months that will give them an overview of the impact of their choices in the different areas of their life and what they need to change to improve it or reduce it. To make this task less time consuming and simpler some strategies were defined. Such as incorporating external apps, taking advantage of phones automatic registering to simplify many categories. The app works with a point system as base taking into consideration gamification elements that would keep the user motivated and engaged while seeing real change.
Overview and Structure
To define the overall structure of the app and its structure I resorted 1st to sketching and then information hierarchy and organisation.
Layout
I started by creating a lot of sketches and low fidelity wireframes to organise all the information according to the overview scheme. Sketching is important to define the basics before being tied to colour, typography and other branding elements that could clutter our overall vision.
To distribute and organise the information I finally opted for a 4 column layout with 16dp of margins and gutters. In addition a grid of 8px was used.
Visual Identity
To define the visual identity I gave a lot of emphasis in the three areas and make then distinguishable from each other. Three colours were chosen for this purpose.
The typography is Poppins a geometric with smooth edges typeface, that maintains good legibility in small screens.
Naming
The word COHESU comes from the unification of the three main areas that the app is based on: COnsumption; HEalth; SUstainability. It also reminisces on the word cohesion, which is the main purpose of the app.
