Daffodils
Wellness
App

Art as Medicine

Daffodils began with a question: can a mobile app hold space for healing the way a good therapist does — gently, without judgment, and with the right prompt at the right moment? The project explores art's clinical role in PTSD recovery, specifically how drawing, reflection, and exposure to art environments can support emotional processing and nervous system regulation.

The design process moved from user persona research and journey mapping through low-fidelity wireframing to a fully resolved high-fidelity visual system — a daffodil-yellow, soft-edged interface that communicates safety and warmth from the first screen.

Yellow as Warmth

The visual system draws from the daffodil's intrinsic symbolism — renewal, resilience, the bloom that comes after difficulty. The warm yellow palette, rounded forms, and generous white space communicate that this is a safe environment before a single word is read.

Typography uses a script wordmark for the app name (human, handmade) alongside clean sans-serif body text (readable, calm). Icon system uses simple, non-clinical line weights.

Daffodil illustration elements appear throughout the UI as grounding motifs — in empty states, as streak rewards, and as decorative anchors at screen edges.