Customized daily views, educational pop ups to help the user understand their cycle, and customized weekly view
My trends
A period tracking app to empower and educate
Tweens going through puberty need age appropriate support to understand their menstrual cycles and changing bodies, yet there is no app designed specifically to help them. Most apps further exclude them by putting educational resources behind paywalls or using gendered language. My Trends sets out to give all young teenagers a sense of control during a tumultuous time by providing an educational and customizable period tracker. My Trends uses a multidimensional calendar that both tracks and defines the different changes that occur during the menstrual cycle.
Default daily, weekly, and cyclical calendar views
Customization demonstration
Customization option menus
UX Development
App Style Guide
Learn tab with free educational content about the different aspects of the menstrual cycle. Completing lessons allows the user to unlock new stickers to use on their calendar.
Promotional Video
Visual Experimentation and Research
Before developing my own calendar system, I conducted research on the history of calendar design. I learned that prior to the industrial revolution, most calendars were radial. Round calendars allowed for one common graphic to be applicable to multiple years and time systems, where as the typical calendar we all know today becomes obsolete after a specific month of a specific year has passed. For example, the famous Mayan calendar had both a long count for days since the birth of their civilization and a ritual calendar that operated on 260 day cycles. For the sake of experimentation, I also designed a preliminary radial and linear calendar and tracked my own body metrics.