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Mood Meditation App - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Positives
        
        Integration with Apple's Health app to track mindfulness minutes.
        
        Pause button: take a 15-second mindful pause whenever you're stressed or catch yourself on autopilot.
        
        Timer: for meditation, includes integration with iOS mindfulness minutes
        
        Reminders: personal reminders can be set to remind the user to be mindful throughout the day. The reminders are quiet and not imposing.
        
        Explore: select from a library of guided and self-guided practices. Extended practices for purchase.
        
        Lifelog: notice patterns and gains insights from your Lifelong as your commitment to mindfulness takes root.
        
        Simple start program: 21 days of free mindfulness audio lessons. Themes include mindful breathing, body awareness, kindness, and present moment awareness.
        
        Remix: after completing 21 days of mindfulness, use the unlocked Remix feature to continue practising mindfulness in a personal way.
      - Negatives
        
        Constant notifications (every 15 minutes) asking about user's mood can be aggravating for the user.
        
        User must make an account to use this app.
        
        Notifications don't always work.
        
        Doesn't contain longer guided meditations.
    - - Positives
        
        Hours of carefully selected music & nature sounds to help the user relax, meditate, focus & sleep more soundly.
        
        Curated music playlists for various moods and occasions and the ability for user's to create their own playlists.
        
        Hundreds of guided meditations and series for whatever the user's dealing with in their life.
        
        Alarm clock and morning meditations to start the day on the right foot.
        
        Full 12-week daily program to teach the user to meditate and progressively bring more calm and clarity into their life.
        
        Short meditations that the user can do on the go, anytime, anywhere: at work, commuting, in lines, walking, etc.
        
        Mindfulness program for kids and teens.
        
        Inspirational talks and masterclasses from some of the greatest personal growth teachers to help the user better enjoy their life.
        
        Breathing exercises and calming videos to help the user calm down in a few minutes.
        
        Practical tools including: saving favourites, setting up reminders and adjusting background music levels.
        
        Progress can be sinked across multiple devices.
        
        Adds mindful minutes to the Apple Health app because of an integration with the Apple Health kit.
        
        Free version is available.
      - Negatives
        
        Many of the items are too expensive.
        
        Daily emails pushing for the user to subscribe are aggravating for the user.
        
        Must create an account to use the app.
        
        Difficult to navigate.
        
        Cannot unsubscribe from the app.
        
        Cannot cancel subscription after agreeing to free trial and thus, have to pay for the subscription.
        
        All the worthwhile content has to be paid for, not many options for free.
        
        Users lose their progress every time they login.
        
        App crashes a lot or stays on the loading screen until the user's device is restarted.
- - - - Only questions critical to the app's function are included to respect user privacy. (Safety, Utility, Effectiveness)
      - Exit notifications should give the user a sense of accomplishment. Dialogs should yield closure. (Accessibility, Effectiveness, Utility)
      - Scroll drop-down options to limit invalid user input and to simply the user's experience. (Accessibility, Effectiveness, Utility)
      - All screens include the name of the app or screen in top left corner of the screen and the time in the top right-hand corner as this is a common feature across Apple Watch apps. (Learnability, Utility, Effectiveness)
      - Colour scheme will be based on which colours are scientifically proven to be most soothing for different moods. (Utility, Effectiveness)
      - On any screen that can be scrolled down, a small Digital Crown will be displayed near the top right corner. (Utility, Effectiveness, Learnability)
      - The page indicator (dots) at the bottom of the screen will be filled with white and slightly larger than the other dots when the user is on that 'page' of the app, as this is a commonly used and recognisable feature. (Learnability, Utility, Effectiveness)
      - After a user clicks a button to complete an action that affects their preferences, a notification will pop-up to confirm their action and allow them to undo it. (Utility, Effectiveness, Safety)
    - - User info screen
        
        Asks the user how often they'd like to get 'Rate your mood' notifications (i.e. once every hour, every two hours, etc).
        
        Asks the user to input their physical demographics, so that the app can send a notification when the user's heart rate goes above resting heart rate level.
        
        A delete all history button can be found when the user scrolls to the bottom.
      - Rate your mood screen
        
        Asks the user to rate their mood by clicking on one of the three mood buttons (happy face, sad face, ok face).
      - Listed Meditations screen
        
        Each meditation is displayed as a widget. The meditations displayed are based on the user's mood.
        
        Meditations are sorted from shortest to longest.
        
        The user can click on the ellipsis on the top right corner of that specific meditation's widget to go to the Meditation Info Screen.
        
        The user can click on the meditation widget to open the Meditation Screen.
        
        Length of the meditation is displayed under its name in the widget.
      - History screen
        
        Display a graph with the user's overall mood history from when they started to use the app. The user can enlarge the graph by expanding their fingers or minimise the graph by pinching their fingers.
        
        Display how many days the user has used the app in a row for with an encouraging message to continue below.
      - Meditation screen
        
        As the meditation plays, a circle will start to be outlined around the pause/play button to show what percentage of the meditation is left.
      - Meditation info screen
        
        The user can view extra information about the meditation (i.e. if there's audio, if so, who's speaking, and more).
        
        The user can click on the star button to add the meditation to favourites.
      - Common Features
        
        The name of the app in top left corner of the screen and the time in the top right-hand corner.
        
        A small scroll bar will be displayed near the top right corner when the user scrolls.
        
        The page indicator (dots) at the bottom of the screen will be filled with white and slightly larger than the other dots when the user is on that 'page' of the app.
      - Request screens
        
        Requests the authority to send notifications.
        
        Requests authority to access location services, so that the app can send a notification if the user's heart rate is above their resting rate and the user is not moving.
  - - - Language: Swift coding language.
      - App: Swift Playgrounds
    - - Send a notification asking about the user's mood if their heart rate is above its usual resting rate and they are not moving (when the app is installed, the user will be asked to let it access the location data for this purpose).
      - Send a notification asking about the user's mood consistently based on the user's settings (e.g. every hour, every two hours, etc.).
      - Calculate the user's resting heart rate based on inputted data (e.g. age, height, gender, how much exercise is done daily).
      - Add meditations to the favourites screen if the users click the star button on the Meditation Info Screen.
      - List specific meditations depending on which mood button is pressed.
      - Send pop-ups when the user clicks a button that will change their preferences.