Avnoe

A mindfulness app that uses visual expression and reflection to help build team working skills that I had started in college. The prompt was to “design a product that helps you become a better version of yourself.” I want to be someone described as "thoughtful" and I defined thoughtful as considering those around you and putting effort into how you interact with them. To be thoughtful is to consider those around you and put effort into how you interact with them.

What is Cognitive Empathy?

The ability to recognize and understand another person’s emotional state.

How do we learn Cognitive Empathy?

We learn to recognize emotions in other people by understanding them in ourselves. Being more aware of what you’re experiencing helps you understand why you’re feeling that way.

How it came to be & the forms it took

This started as a college project to “design a product to make a better version of yourself.” It started with a mission to help build and support collaborative teams and after further distilling my idea, I realized the will? want? actual change? starts with one person and most effective when it’s decided on their own. (when they’re doing it for themselves.

I called it Kee in college because “psyche” but always disliked it. Now trying the name Avnoe, an acronym for A Visual Note of Expression. like WMATA? is a project that helps users document their mood several times a day with the hope that this process of documenting, reviewing and reflection will train ourselves to be more aware of what we’re feeling.

Kee is a project that helps users document their mood several times a day with the hope that this process of documenting, reviewing and reflection will train ourselves to be more aware of what we’re feeling.

Being more aware of what you’re experiencing is the first step to understanding why you feel that way and then figuring out how to deal with it. The more we understand ourselves, the better we can understand other people and better navigate social situations.