Case studyUX/UI Design
Herstasis
Menopause symptoms get described from memory at doctor visits. Herstasis turns them into data a physician can use.
- Year
- 2026
- Client
- Herstasis Health
- Services
- UX/UI Design
- Status
- Design complete
01Brief
What we were asked
A mobile app design that helps women track menopause symptoms daily, understand their trends, and bring real data to medical appointments.
02Challenge
Why it was hard
Menopause produces dozens of symptoms - vasomotor, urogenital, psychological - that most women track nowhere, describe from memory at appointments, and quietly normalize. Herstasis Health wanted an app that turns that fog into data: a daily check-in gentle enough to sustain, a symptom vocabulary grounded in clinical categories, and reports a physician can actually use.
The design problem is emotional as much as informational. A symptom tracker that feels like a medical chart gets abandoned in a week; one that feels like a wellness toy loses the clinical credibility the foundation is built on. Every screen had to hold both - warm enough for a daily ritual, precise enough for an exam room.
03The Build
Scroll through the product
01Check in
A ritual, not a chore
The journal opens on a calendar and a greeting - 'Good morning, Mary! Let's get on with the check in today.' One tap on a date, and the day's log is open. The design bets everything on making the daily habit nearly effortless.
02Log
Severity in seconds
Each tracked symptom takes one tap on a none-to-four scale. No free-text diary guilt, no ten-field forms - the flow is engineered for a tired person at the end of a hard day, because that's exactly who's using it.
03Vocabulary
Clinical categories, plain language
The symptom picker organizes hot flushes, night sweats, mood, libido, and more under their clinical groupings - vasomotor, urogenital, psychological - each with a plain-language explainer. Women learn the vocabulary their doctor uses just by tracking.
04Trends
The fog becomes a chart
myResult turns weeks of taps into averages and monthly trends per symptom, with a share flow built for appointments: choose the period, choose the symptoms, choose whether personal details travel with the report.
05Learn
Education that follows her
myLearning surfaces articles matched to the symptoms a woman actually tracks - navigation guides, top-symptom explainers - so the education is about her menopause, not menopause in general.
04Notes
The planned architecture
The app is organized around four spaces reflected in its navigation: myJournal, myResult, myLearning, and myProfile. The journal opens on a calendar with a personal greeting and one job - today's check-in. Logging a day takes seconds: each tracked symptom gets a severity from none to four, with new symptoms added from a clinically organized picker that groups vasomotor, urogenital, and psychological categories with plain-language explanations.
myResult turns the log into trends - averages and monthly charts per symptom - with a share flow designed for the exam room: a selectable time period, selectable symptoms, and explicit control over whether personal information travels with the report. myLearning provides curated articles matched to the symptoms a woman actually tracks, so education follows her situation rather than a generic feed.
The flows were wireframed end to end - onboarding with medical history, terms, profile management, password recovery - and the visual language explored through six directions for the symptom picker, landing on a warm cream palette with a deep navy anchor and category-coded iconography. The suggested build is React Native with Expo, with a Node.js and PostgreSQL backend keeping health data in a relational store with strict per-user isolation.
Suggested stack
05Outcome
Where it landed
- Deliverable
- UX Package
- End-to-end flows plus visual explorations
- Symptom Groups
- 3+
- Vasomotor, urogenital, psychological
- Core Spaces
- 4
- Journal, results, learning, profile
- Visual Options
- 6
- Directions explored for the symptom picker
06Craft
The work behind the work
More of the product: the final direction of the category-coded symptom picker, the profile that carries tracked symptoms and daily reminders, the trend-view wireframes that shaped myResult, the myLearning content hub, the expanded symptom trend graphs, and the full choose-symptoms checklist grouped by clinical category.
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