GOOD COOKIE
OBJECTIVE
To conceptualize a mental health app.
To conceptualize a mental health app.
PROCESS
Good Cookie aims to spread some type of good news every day, cracking open a new topic-specific fortune to boost the user's morale and shed more light to positive events happening around the world. The app checks in with the user's mood everyday: once when they open the app, and once after they exit the first news story they read. These results are then filed and used to personalize which news stories are recommended to the user in the future.
The community tab would be a space void of ego where users aren't incentivized by any metric of popularity (likes, followers, comments, etc.). They would be able to post good cookies of their own, which could then be bookmarked by others - but even this would be an invisible metric.
The idea was born from a thought I had after reading a post online about someone with severe anxiety who enlisted the help of others to walk them through the ordering process at Subway. Instead of being ridiculed, they were kindly granted a step-by-step instructional.
Occasionally, I feel a retrospective sadness for all the kindness I wasn't afforded as an anxious child myself, but that's okay because it means that I occasionally stumble upon a kindness that is so powerful it's worthy of envy.
It would be nice if everyone could feel that way, especially in our current climate.
