Creating these personas helped us empathize with our users and understand their habits, goals, and motivations. It allowed us to narrow in on exact purposes of SleepStreak: to help college students improve their sleep quality, establish healthy sleep habits, and enhance overall well-being. We broke this down into 3 different components:
SleepWatch App
ShutEye App
PROS:
• Awareness and education: SleepWatch provides information and resources about sleep health, helping users understand the importance of good sleep and providing tips for improving sleep habits.
• Sleep tracking: In addition, it can monitor and analyze sleep patterns, providing insights into sleep duration, quality, and disturbances. This data can help users identify trends and make adjustments to improve their sleep.
• Sleep environment monitoring: It can integrate with smart home devices or wearable trackers to monitor factors like noise, light, and room temperature, offering suggestions to create a more conducive sleep environment.
PROS:• Alarm and smart wake-up features: The app includes smart alarm features that wake users during their lightest sleep phase, aiming to minimize grogginess and improve wakefulness.
• Personalized recommendations: The app offer personalized recommendations based on sleep data, suggesting lifestyle changes, relaxation techniques, or sleep hygiene practices tailored to individual needs.
• Notification System: The app allows for notifications to be sent to the user throughout the day to remind them of their sleep habits, sleep information, and any appropriate information regarding their sleep performance.
CONS: • Overwhelming data and information: There seems to be a lot of excessive data and complex sleep reports which can seem overwhelming to users, making it difficult to interpret and utilize the information effectively.
• Cost considerations: The app offers basic features for free, but the more advanced and useful features or premium versions come with a cost. Users need to consider if the additional features justify the expense and whether they are willing to pay for ongoing access.
CONS:
• Inadequate customization: The app lacked options for customization, such as predetermined sleep goals or recommendations that may not align with individual preferences or circumstances.
• Cost considerations: Similar to SleepWatch, the premium version comes with a cost that allows the users to unlock more insightful features. This serves as a roadblock users who do not want to spend money but want to improve their sleep.