SOMA

Inspiration

Strict beauty standards cause many young adults to have an unhealthy relationship with food. For people in eating disorder recovery, it is important to prioritize what your body needs.

Years of restriction, purging, or bingeing don't just change behavior. They rewire the neurological pathways responsible for interoception, the internal sense that tells you if you are hungry or not. It is "body signal disconnection."

So, we started with a question: What if there is a tool that helps identify our hunger cues?

What it does

SOMA is a mobile interoception tracker designed for people to understand their physical, mental, and behavioral cues. It helps users to learn their internal signals.

At its core, SOMA tracks:

1. Hunger Levels — a scale from 1-10
2. Signal Type — physical hunger, emotional craving, habitual cue, or signal uncertainty
3. Emotion Levels — from a scale ☹️😐😄
4. Additional Notes — journal entry

Over time, the app creates pattern insights with analysis. For example, "Your physical hunger signals are strongest in the morning." Users also have a history for all recorded instances.

How we built it

Both the app prototype and pitch deck were built in Figma.

Challenges we ran into

The hardest design challenge was the tone. The check-in prompts should flow smoothly and intentionally. We put a lot of thought into the app's flow to make it as seamless as possible.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The thing we're most proud of is integrating our personal stories into SOMA. As young women, both of us have had negative experiences with food and body image. It is really exciting to come up with solutions to our own problems.

What we learned

Although we've used Figma before, we were able to explore more tools and successfully made our first interactive prototype. We also learned a lot about the user design journey.

What's next for SOMA

We hope to integrate real data and use that to track metrics!

Built With

• figma