You Are Okay: Towards User Interfaces for Improving Well-being

TL;DR

This paper discusses the integration of user interface design with psychological insights to enhance well-being, highlighting challenges, opportunities, and practical examples for improving user experiences related to happiness and health.

Contribution

It provides a reflective overview of challenges and opportunities in designing user interfaces that promote well-being, with concrete examples of potential solutions.

Findings

Identifies key challenges in UI design for well-being

Highlights opportunities for leveraging psychology in UI design

Provides practical examples for improving user well-being through interfaces

Abstract

Well-being is a relatively broad concept which can be succinctly described as the state of being happy, healthy or successful. Interesting things happen when bridging user interface design with the psychology of human well-being. This position paper aims at providing a short on reflection the challenges and opportunities in this context and presents concrete examples on how to tackle these challenges and exploit the existing design opportunities.