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PlayWellMinds

An app for training mental strength

Young people today face numerous challenges that can impact their mental well-being. Recognizing the importance of training mental strength alongside physical exercise, both in sports and everyday life, PlayWellMinds developed a unique app specifically tailored to young people. The program, structured in seven steps, aims to help young people achieve improved mental strength and overall well-being.

In Brief

  • An app for iOS and Android.
  • A seven-step program for young people to work on their mental strength and self-awareness.

Tech stack

• Flutter• Firebase• Rive

Sustainable development goals

Sustainable Development Goals Icon Goal 3

Background

PlayWellMinds offers a unique program built around seven steps, featuring exercises grounded in empirically proven methods. These exercises help users develop mental strength tools that improve their well-being and performance, helping them feel better and perform better.

We partnered with PlayWellMinds to make their training program into an easily accessible digital product by developing an app, with the goal to test it in a pilot study. The app integrates PlayWellMinds' seven-step program into an interactive, digital experience, allowing users to engage with the exercises anytime.

The Team

Viktor Lemon
Tech lead/Developer, Prototyp

Lucia Dabezies
Tech lead/Developer, Prototyp

Henrik Cronebäck
Founder, PlayWellMinds

Daniel Felt
Product Design & UI, Great Scott

Making a MVP in three Months

With our sights set on an initial pilot study to test the idea, we chose to create a minimum viable product (MVP). By focusing on building the most essential functionality first, we could ensure we would get feedback on the app's core functionality in the pilot study, while also streamlining our development work.

We chose to write the app in Flutter, which is a cross-platform framework. The rationale behind this choice was that the final product could reach an audience on iOS and Android with the same code base, without necessarily compromising on feel and performance, which is very similar to a native experience.

“To build iteratively and deliver something that can validate your idea early is crucial to us. It's an integral part of what we do here at Prototyp. We want to build the right thing. Continuously adapting what we build based on feedback is a natural part of our process.” - Viktor Lemon, Tech Lead and Developer, Prototyp

We partnered with GreatScott for product design and UI. The app includes elements of gamification with rewards, badges and engaging animations, to encourage and motivate the completion of the steps in the program. The animations in the app are made with the tool Rive.

Screens in the app - PlayWellMinds - Prototyp A selection of screens in the app.

With thoughtful tech choices and a focus on developing the app's core functionality, we had an MVP ready for users to test in three months.

PlayWellMinds is now available on both the Appstore and Google Play Store for download.

The Result

The app has been launched in a pilot study involving various teams and school classes, allowing for real-world testing and feedback collection. You can read more about it at PlayWellMind's website.