Student Success App - Interview with the developer of a fantastic app

Did you have any prior development or coding experience?

Yes, we have an app featured among the global top 10 Apps. Happy Being App, that was built and featured earlier on App of the day too.

What was the most challenging aspect of developing mobile app?

This app brings in concepts of wellbeing from various techniques of psychology, neurology, so to deliver those designs with positive experience and benefits to the users was quite a journey.

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nSmiles helps enhance wellbeing of you and your family, by providing evidence based tools for self-awareness, self-care and graded support using mobile & AI technologies. Solution for the entire family: For adolescents: Our Student Success App, personalizing wellbeing for adolescents helping them measure academic stressors, help build positive relationships, positive study habits, and socio-emotional skills. For Adults: Our award welling and App Store featured app - Happy Being - helps working employees and homemakers measure, get aware of there current wellbeing state and stressors impacting, get personalized tools to enhance wellbeing with simple 10-15 mins daily workouts. For young adults: Online tools that help young adults make career choices based on innate strengths and personal interests for long term career wellbeing.

Name a few of your favorite apps and reason you love them.

Happy Being App, Calm, Byju's.

How long have you been working on this app?

8 months.

What need of the user did you have in mind when developing this app?

Students / Adolescents face challenges related to academic stress, challenges with relationships impacting academic performance. Most of the time to better your performance, you may have taken tuitions and used other learning apps to understand concepts. But do you know that your lifestyle, habits, beliefs, and attitudes around the study, performance, test preparation, well-being, and your ability to manage stress plays a key role in enabling success both in exams and at school? Measure your lifestyle, habits, and attitudes compared with top performers and get a personalized report with easy to follow recommendations. Daily workouts that help improve your self-esteem, concentration, study habits, relationships, and overall wellbeing.

In what way do you think your app is better than similar apps on the market? Please describe in detail what innovation you think you bring and what you are proud of in your app.

This is the only app that begins with first creating awareness through self-assessments covering exhaustively on following aspects of a student: 1. Academic and exam stress Understand your stressors across the top 10 risk factors identified for students across the globe like test anxiety, worry about grades etc get personalized recommendations to cope with them effectively. 2. Know your learning styles: Discover the learning strategies mapped to your intelligence that best works for you and learn/understand any subject or concept quickly and retain more information easily. 3. Measure your Study Habits Measuring your study habits to understand your academic strengths and take corrective actions to bring regularity, system and structure to your study. 4. Find out your concentration levels and winning attitudes This assessment measures your level of concentration and provides personalized recommendations to overcome distractions and improve concentration. Understanding and developing key performance-related attitudes like perseverance, achievement motivation, self-discipline, self-esteem, self-control, and growth mindset bring peak performances. 5. Student wellbeing Measure your wellbeing across physical – diet and nutrition, exercise and sleep, social – relationship with peers, parents, teachers and social attitudes, mental – subjective and hedonic wellbeing. Based on the above assessment you get a personalized academic success program: Every day, my academic success coach provides either an audio or affirmation practice or a journaling practice to boost your success alternatively through the program.

What are your future plans and expected features of the coming new versions of this app?

Further personalized tools and solutions to specific adolescent challenges that are hard for parents/teachers to help students with.

Assuming new users of your app are reading this page. What do you want to ask them to do (contact you about X, Share the app, etc.)?

Help every student manage academic stress better, discover and apply personal study habits that are efficient and improve the overall wellbeing. Do share with 4 students you know and be their success guru.