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Mental Health Foundation
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A personalised tool for safety, support, and wellbeing

‘Manawa’ symbolises having hope in your heart, the driving force behind a personal safety plan that enables individuals to keep a record on their phone of the things they can do and the people they can contact to keep themselves safe if they are feeling really bad.

In partnership with Te Whatu Ora, the Mental Health Foundation and One NZ, we created ‘Manawa – my own survival plan’ – an app that provides the ability to keep a personal safety plan easily accessible on your smart phone. 

 

The app incorporates functionality to create a personalised safety plan, including the ability to add support people, reasons to live and record video messages to yourself when you’re feeling good, as an inspiration of the great things in your life.

Mental health challenges are widespread and having an accessible and user-friendly tool like ‘Manawa’ can make a positive impact, ensuring mental health is prioritised, understood and actively cared for.

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The beginning stages
The process started with simple sketches and wireframes outlining the basic functions of the app and user flows. Then through a number of design iterations. The styling (in particular the colours and imagery) was based on existing print materials for those suffering with Suicidal thoughts, provided to us by CMH.
Suicide Prevention Wireframes
Suicideprevention Two Phone Mockup
Onboarding Screens
The onboarding screens introduce the app to the user and the main points about the app.
Suicideprevention App In Hand Mockup
Inside the app
The app design and colouring is kept simple throughout, which allows for the bottom nav and the 111 button at the top of the screen to stand out.
Suicide Prevention Iphone Mockups
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