Recovered → Feel2Heal
A mental health companion helping people understand their emotional patterns and build resilience.
Team
2 Co-founders, 2 Developers, Science Advisor
My Role
Product Designer (sole designer)
Timeline
May 2024 — September 2025
Platform
iOS & Android app, web, marketing visuals
Status quo
0 → 1
Overview
Feel2Heal (originally Recovered Space) is an AI-powered emotional wellbeing platform supporting people experiencing eating disorders and emotional overwhelm.
As the sole designer, I created the entire product experience – from brand identity to the shipped iOS and Android apps – building a compassionate and accessible support ecosystem together with the founders.
Challenge
28 million Americans struggle with eating disorders, yet 80% never receive treatment due to cost, stigma, and limited access to specialized care.
Our challenge was to design a product that felt supportive rather than clinical, made complex emotional tracking feel simple and natural, and could scale from ED recovery to broader emotional wellness.
28M
80%
never receive treatment
6 mo
Status quo
When I joined, the only existing component was the EAT-26 screening page. There was no app structure, no navigation, no UX patterns, no information architecture, and no visual identity, so my role began with defining the foundation for the entire product.
Process
The team initially explored building the entire experience through a chat interface. Conversational AI felt personal and emotionally supportive, but early testing showed its limitations: the flow quickly became overwhelming, users lost their sense of orientation, and important insights became difficult to revisit. This led to a shift toward a hybrid structure, where chat stayed as a meaningful part of emotional tracking but lived within a more traditional, predictable app framework.
Within this structure, I worked on shaping the core user experience: a gentle onboarding flow, journaling-style check-ins, AI-generated insights, a psychoeducational library, progress tracking tools, and a safe community space.
Around ten months later, user feedback and market insights highlighted a broader need beyond eating disorder recovery, prompting an expansion into emotional wellbeing. This shift required restructuring check-ins, adjusting the content hierarchy, creating new entry points, updating visual elements.
Results
The metrics validated strong product-market fit and user demand for accessible emotional support. The high engagement rates demonstrated that our design approach – balancing structure with empathy – resonated with people seeking help.
onboarding completion
App Store view-to-download conversion
in the US market
What I Learned
Designing for emotional wellbeing taught me how small UX decisions shape someone’s sense of safety. As the sole designer, I learned to move fast, build modular systems, adapt through multiple pivots, and balance empathy with product strategy. This project strengthened my ability to design for complexity while keeping experiences simple, human, and emotionally grounded.
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