Bondly

An app for deeper conversations and the emotions behind them.

Features

Bondly helps people name and share how they feel, sparks meaningful conversations with prompts always in your pocket, and saves the moments worth remembering.

Impact

Bondly builds emotional literacy, supports relationship hygiene through honest check-ins, and fosters social inclusion by helping everyone feel heard.

Designer role

Product designer・UX/UI designer

2026

Research

Understanding the problem

Competitor analysis

Create Private links • Group openness • Instant connection Synchronous play • Coziness

User research

30+ respondents (Tally)5 family interviewsExpert interviewSocial media survey

Feedback

What became clear after the interview study

Intention to build a strong bond with your child and take care of child's well-being.

Parents

The desire to have an equal and attentive relationship with parents.

Children

Process

Moving from research to ideation

Workshop

By following Design Sprint method together with team we did some rounds of How Might We workshop and then sketched the ideas.

Decision

After research and workshops, we realized that there can be many features, but we decided to reduce it to the MVP level and rate by importance.

Features

What makes this app special?

Emotion Check-in

Understanding each other feelings.

Question Cards

Conversation openers, always in in your pocket.

Emotion Memories

All emotions collected in your family memory album.

Illustration

Onboarding illustration style generetated and made with artificial inteligence.

Design Style

Warm ramp brown color pallete to create warm and memorable effect.

Bondly

An app for deeper conversations and the emotions behind them.

Features

Bondly helps people name and share how they feel, sparks meaningful conversations with prompts always in your pocket, and saves the moments worth remembering.

Impact

Bondly builds emotional literacy, supports relationship hygiene through honest check-ins, and fosters social inclusion by helping everyone feel heard.

Designer role

Product designer・UX/UI designer

2026

Research

Understanding the problem

Competitor analysis

Good practise is to have private links. That ensures group openness and instant connection.

User research

30+ respondents (Tally)5 family interviews Expert interviewSocial media survey

Feedback

What became clear after the interview study

Intention to build a strong bond with your child and take care of child's well-being.

Parents

The desire to have an equal and attentive relationship with parents.

Children

Process

Moving from research to ideation

Workshop

By following Design Sprint method together with team we did some rounds of How Might We workshop and then sketched the ideas.

Decision

After research and workshops, we realized that there can be many features, but we decided to reduce it to the MVP level and rate by importance.

Features

What makes this app special?

Emotion Check-in

Understanding each other feelings.

Question Cards

Conversation openers, always in in your pocket.

Emotion Memories

All emotions collected in your family memory album.

Illustration

Onboarding illustration style generetated and made with artificial inteligence.

Design Style

Warm ramp brown color pallete to create warm and memorable effect.

Bondly

An app for deeper conversations and the emotions behind them.

Features

Bondly helps people name and share how they feel, sparks meaningful conversations with prompts always in your pocket, and saves the moments worth remembering.

Impact

Bondly builds emotional literacy, supports relationship hygiene through honest check-ins, and fosters social inclusion by helping everyone feel heard.

Designer role

Product designer・UX/UI designer

2026

Research

Understanding the problem

Competitor analysis

Create Private links • Group openness • Instant connection Synchronous play • Coziness

User research

30+ respondents (Tally)5 family interviewsExpert interviewSocial media survey

Feedback

What became clear after the interview study

Intention to build a strong bond with your child and take care of child's well-being.

Parents

The desire to have an equal and attentive relationship with parents.

Children

Process

Moving from research to ideation

Workshop

By following Design Sprint method together with team we did some rounds of How Might We workshop and then sketched the ideas.

Decision

After research and workshops, we realized that there can be many features, but we decided to reduce it to the MVP level and rate by importance.

Features

What makes this app special?

Emotion Check-in

Understanding each other feelings.

Question Cards

Conversation openers, always in in your pocket.

Emotion Memories

All emotions collected in your family memory album.

Illustration

Onboarding illustration style generetated and made with artificial inteligence.

Design Style

Warm ramp brown color pallete to create warm and memorable effect.