MoodQuest

Your Feelings, Your Quest.

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🌈 MoodQuest

Your emotions, your quest. A gamified mental wellness app for the next generation.

💡 Inspiration

Mental health is health. Yet for millions of young people, it remains taboo, invisible, or difficult to express. over 70% of Gen Z experience anxiety or emotional overload, but many feel ashamed or uncomfortable seeking support.

MoodQuest was born from a simple idea: what if emotional self-care felt like a game a journey of small, daily quests that help you heal, grow, and connect?

I created MoodQuest to empower users to explore their inner world, earn emotional badges, and express themselves freely, anonymously or not. With gentle visuals, community support, and a customizable AI companion, MoodQuest turns vulnerability into strength.

🚀 What it does

MoodQuest is a mobile app designed to support emotional health through interactive, daily engagement. Key features include:

  • Personalized onboarding: tailored interface based on the user's emotional needs and goals
  • Quote of the day: daily motivational quotes to uplift and ground users
  • Anonymous or public community feed: a space to share feelings, ask for support, or offer encouragement
  • Daily quests: reflective, interactive tasks to help users check in, breathe, or release emotions
  • Journaling space: a private area to express thoughts, save key memories, or self-reflect
  • Emoji mood tracker: log a daily emotion with one emoji and view your emotional journey
  • Streaks & leaderboards: gamified motivation to build consistency and celebrate progress
  • Badge system: unlock emotional achievements with Lottie-animated collectible badges
  • “Moody” AI companion: a customizable assistant to talk to about feelings, trauma, or daily life
  • Podcasts & quizzes: curated mental wellness content for relaxation, learning, or inspiration
  • Creative & group activities: suggestions like yoga, journaling prompts, and social challenges
  • Progress dashboard: personalized stats and patterns to track mental growth over time

🛠 How I built it

I designed the entire app using Figma, focusing on clean, emotionally intuitive UX/UI. I spent time crafting a warm visual identity and created over 15 badge concepts, emotional quests, and interactions.

To ensure the features were aligned with real needs, i also conducted surveys and informal interviews with friends and peers to understand what would actually help them open up emotionally.

🎯 Challenges I ran into

Mental health is a deeply personal and sensitive subject. Many people felt uncomfortable answering my user research surveys, which reminded me of the emotional barrier that still exists around vulnerability.

This reinforced the importance of MoodQuest’s mission: to offer a safe space anonymous or not where people can reflect and share without fear of judgment.

Balancing playfulness with emotional depth was another key challenge: the app needed to feel light and engaging, without trivializing the user’s real struggles.

🏆 Accomplishments I’m proud of

  • Created a fully designed, interactive prototype with personalized flows and emotional storytelling
  • Built an emotionally intelligent system that combines self-care and gamification without pressure
  • Received positive reactions from testers, many of whom said “i would actually use this every day”

📚 What I learned

  • Emotional design is about building trust through microcopy, visuals, and intentional flow
  • Gamification works best when it reflects meaningful emotional wins not just streaks or points
  • Community features must be designed with empathy and clear safety boundaries

🔮 What’s next for MoodQuest

  • Develop a working MVP using Flutter and Firebase
  • Test the app with a wider audience and integrate mental health expert feedback
  • Expand the quest system and Moody’s conversational abilities
  • Explore seasonal themes, new badge series, and partner activities
  • Collaborate with schools or youth programs to make MoodQuest accessible to more people

designed with empathy 🫶 | powered by creativity ✨ | built for healing 🌿

Built With

  • figma
  • framer
  • openai
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