Planning life by how you feel
By combining scheduling with emotional awareness, Kyro helps users balance productivity and well-being, encouraging healthier routines and joyful living. Through gentle reflections and emotional energy tracking, Kyro guides users toward more intentional choices throughout their day.
Productivity tools help people manage tasks and not emotions. Students and young professionals often feel burnout, guilt, and emotional fatigue despite keeping up with their to-do lists. Time gets managed, but energy doesn't. Kyro aims to bridge this gap.
Through interviews and surveys, we learned that people want to feel in control of both their schedule and their state of mind. Reflection doesn't have to be complicated — it can be lightweight, visual, and integrated into the tools people already use. That way, when scheduling tasks, we not only take into account our time availability, but our emotional availability as well.
Kyro turns emotional awareness into part of planning. Users log their moods, tag events with energy levels, and receive insights like "time with friends boosts joy" or "late nights increase stress." Over time, Kyro helps users schedule for balance and prevent burnout.
Watch how Kyro helps users balance productivity and well-being
Kyro: Planning life by how you feel, not just by what you do
From needfinding to high-fidelity prototypes — here's our journey
Interactive digital prototype, documentation, and slide deck
Fully interactive, polished prototype
Expert usability assessment
Visual summary, pitch materials, and demo video
Complete design documentation
CS 147: Design for Mental Wellbeing
Amesha B.
Developer and User Researcher
Gil S.
Developer and User Researcher
Bennie N.
Designer and User Researcher
Gabriella U.
Designer and Developer