McMaster University | JoyPop
Mental Health App

JoyPop is a mobile platform designed to improve mental health research and treatment. Spearheaded by McMaster University’s Department of Health Sciences, the solution helps researchers and youth engage, connect, and learn to better understand and treat mental health.

Award-Winning Mobile App Development

McMaster University | JoyPOP
Mental Health App

JoyPop is a mobile platform designed to improve mental health research and treatment. Spearheaded by McMaster University’s Department of Health Sciences, the solution helps researchers and youth engage, connect, and learn to better understand and treat mental health.

McMaster University | JoyPop Mental Health App

JoyPop is a mobile platform designed to improve mental health research and treatment. Spearheaded by McMaster University’s Department of Health Sciences, the solution helps researchers and youth engage, connect, and learn to better understand and treat mental health.

Client Challenge

McMaster University is a public university located in Hamilton, Ontario. It’s Department of Health Sciences had an abundance of research underlying the concept of “resilience,” and how to improve it in people who have experienced adversity. They approached Clearbridge to help translate their vision of improving mental resilience in vulnerable populations by reaching them where they are active – on their smartphones.

Client Challenge

McMaster University is a public university located in Hamilton, Ontario. Its Department of Health Sciences had an abundance of research underlying the concept of “resilience,” and how to improve it in people who have experienced adversity. They approached Clearbridge to help translate their vision of improving mental resilience in vulnerable populations by reaching them where they are active – on their smartphones.

Our Solution

Clearbridge and McMaster University underwent an intensive five-day Design Thinking session to help distill the concept of resiliency training into an engaging mobile experience. Employing design thinking principles, the session delivered a thorough understanding of product goals, prioritized product features that would best resonate with McMaster’s users, and a clickable app prototype. The Design Thinking session produced deliverables, including the initial app visualization, user journeys, wireframes, and a prioritized product roadmap to set the foundation for development.

These were our services offered:

Our Solution

Clearbridge and McMaster University underwent an intensive five-day Design Thinking session to help distill the concept of resiliency training into an engaging mobile experience. Employing design thinking principles, the session delivered a thorough understanding of product goals, prioritized product features that would best resonate with McMaster’s users, and a clickable app prototype. The Design Thinking session produced deliverables, including the initial app visualization, user journeys, wireframes, and a prioritized product roadmap to set the foundation for development.

These were our services offered:

The Results

Using the foundation created in the Design Thinking session, we developed JoyPop for iOS – an intuitive and engaging mobile experience designed to help users build and improve their mental resilience through a set of activities, games, and reflection all facilitated via JoyPop.

Key accomplishments of the mobile app include:

The JoyPop app has played a significant role in supporting the mental health of its students and providing ways to help with coping. Additionally, JoyPop has been a starting point for McMaster University to gather insights on the effectiveness of specific activities and capture data to facilitate other mental health initiatives and projects moving forward. 

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