DOPE
An app to help teens and youths improve their sense of self-worth.
The DOPE app aims to leverage the mobile platform to increase healthy self-esteem in adolescents and young adults, make them more self-confident, and teach them to carry themselves with a higher sense of self-worth.
Motivation
- Low self-esteem and the need for external validation in adolescents and young adults is rapidly increasing
- This could be attributed to excessive internet usage
- Many adolescents and young adults now have the desire for body modification like surgery or fillers
- Some young adults do not have the ability to speak to a therapist or do not see the advantage in doing so
- Due to the heavy internet usage, apps are now the preferred method of receiving information for adolescents and young adults
Aim
DOPE aims to reduce how much external validation is needed by adolescents and young adults.
How?
- Define what it means to have good self-esteem and self confidence
- Analyse the root causes of low self-esteem and self-worth in adolescents and young adults
- Examine the signs of low self-esteem and self-worth
- Understand the daily habits of young adults who have good self-esteem, confidence and self-assurance
- What are the practical solutions?
- Can they be implemented into an app? If not, what’s the best way?
- Implement the solutions into an interactive app that target users will use
- Derive how to measure the self-perception before and after using the app
- Change or amend the app after measurements if needed
- Promote the app to the target audience
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