Nexus
Duration: 24 hours
My role: User research, UX design, UI design, Script and content writing
Team members: Dinah Ray, Anita, Sushil Sylvester, Slavi Kaloferov and Akriti Goel.
In collaboration with: The London AI Hackathon
Design Question
“Can AI help connect humans in a meaningful way? Is there a way to make therapy more accessible?”
The Outcome
The Nexus App
The application Nexus was built after observing a market gap in the mental health industry and this video briefly explains the need, concept, use cases and backend working of the application.
This video was completed as part of the final pitch of the Hackathon and the application received compliments from Michael Acton Smith, Ceo of Calm.
Project Lead
Being the Project Lead for the Nexus App, I pitched the idea at the London AI hackathon 2023 with the aim of bridging the gap between people and their mental health needs. The aim was to make therapy and other mental health guidance and support more accessible to people.
It was nerve wracking to gather the courage to do it in front of a crowd that had more experience than me but my team believed in me and we pushed through together.
Research to product
This project team was formed within the first hour of the hackathon and consisted of UX designer, a developer, a UI designer and a therapist.
Our team rapidly worked through all the stages of design from brainstorming and research to the final outcome and presentation video within 24 hours.
AI integrated code
The project used Chainlit with a Chat GPT OpenAI plugin to prompt-train our backend AI model as well as to input the code with a repository of trusted sources and collected media.
The lessons I’ve learnt from this project
- Thinking on your feet can be extremely hard when the timeline is very short but working in a team helps to bounce ideas off of one another.
- Working with professionals from other fields and departments can provide valuable insights and enrich the project’s scope.