Gratitude is a powerful yet under-utilized well-being intervention. The failure isn’t that we don’t know about the benefits of gratitude, it’s that we’re bad at building healthy habits. I wanted to design and build a mobile app that nudged people to practice gratitude more.
Motivation
Penn mobile app Design class
Learnt mobile design principles, and designed the first iteration of Songbird.
Product
Fullstack Engineering Bootcamp
Learnt software engineering, and interned as a software engineer with Appstrax Tech to get experience in an agile environment collaborating with software engineers.
Summer project
Built Songbird gratitude app.
Movement building
Ran gratitude workshop at MoveSpace in New Zealand in partnership with Happy Auckland.
Learnings
Finding a supportive community makes all the difference. Working in the coworking space, MoveSpace, surrounded by people doing their own creative projects, kept me motivated when things were difficult.
Bias towards action! Leaping in at each stage meant rapid progress, quickly identifying what wouldn’t work, and gaining buy-in from people who pushed me to keep going.
