Project
Community
Challenge
Parentified children tend to grow up too fast with many adult responsibilities, caring roles and pressure put upon their shoulders. This can shape their careers, relationships and health in the future and I wanted to better understand people's experiences, especially eldest daughters.
Discovery
User Research
I conducted a short survey aimed at eldest and parentified daughters to better understand their experiences and struggles, receiving 75+ responses within 48 hours.
Design Process
I'm exploring first concepts with Claude Code;
Key decisions
Pillar reordering algorithm. Onboarding asks what brought someone to the app and reorders the dashboard's four pillars (Understand, Feel, Heal, Grow) around that answer but with a hard constraint baked into the logic: Feel and Heal can never rank below Grow, regardless of what the user picks. This keeps the product aligned with the survey's headline finding (79% want emotional support first) even when a user's stated preference points elsewhere.
Combined Feel/Heal navigation, separate dashboard identity. The two most emotionally-loaded pillars share one tab in the bottom nav (reducing choice fatigue) but still appear as two distinct, individually-tappable cards on the dashboard — preserving their separate identities without adding a fifth nav item.
Communities built to the same visual standard as therapeutic content. Discussion feeds, pinned community rules, meetup RSVPs, and light creator moderation all use the same frosted-glass, gradient-accented language as the rest of the app, so the social layer never feels like a generic forum bolted onto a wellness product.
Solution
Key features
Four content pillars: Understand, Feel, Heal, and Grow, each with articles and audio in its own color.
Personalized onboarding that reorders the dashboard around what each person needs most.
Communities: create or join groups, post and comment, organize meetups.
Reflective prompts on the home dashboard, tailored to the person's mood and top need.
Light accounts: simple sign up, minimal data, visible privacy controls.
Editorial visual identity: cream and strawberry palette, serif headlines, calm frosted card style.
What's next?
This is a personal project I'm really passionate about and aim to explore doing user testing with communities I have found - Eldest Daughter's Club, Home Girls Unite.