mina
Visualisation of Cycle Data for Women's Health Mobile Application.
The mina app is a data-driven health application designed to be a holistic guide through all cycle phases, accompanying women from menarche to postmenopause and supporting them with issues like PMS, endometriosis, or menopausal problems. It goes beyond classic cycle apps by combining symptom and emotional diaries, laboratory values, and analyses into personalized reports that strengthen users’ health literacy and facilitate communication with doctors, therapists, and coaches. The app integrates tracking, reflection, and prevention with evidence-based strategies from gynaecopsychology, nutrition, exercise, and sleep.
My Role: Data Visualization Development
My focus in the development of the mina app was data analysis, design and implementation of the data visualizations. The primary goal was to translate complex, logged data—including physical symptoms, mood, energy levels, and vital signs—into clear, actionable visual insights to support self-care and professional discussions.
Key visualization modules I developed include:
- Cycle & Trend Analyses: Creating curve diagrams and filterable graphs for pattern analysis, allowing users to track levels (such as mood, energy, sleep, stress, attention, digestion, and libido) and vital data (temperature, pulse, weight) over time. This also includes the core visualization of the cycle wheel for dynamic phase calculation and tracking cycle duration over time.
- Frequency and Symptom Patterns: Designing Plots, Heatmaps, and Charts to analyze the frequency of challenges and symptoms across the four calculated cycle phases (Winter/Menstruation, Spring/Follicular, Summer/Ovulation, Autumn/Luteal)
- Correlations and Reporting: Implementing Trend lines for correlation and regression analysis to visualize the relationship between cycle phases, symptoms, and context factors. I also ensured the visualizations were embedded into the local PDF/HTML health reports, which include a summary, averages, trends, and visual correlations for sharing with physicians.
- User Experience: Developing intuitive and modular visualizations with a clear UI/UX design, using distinct color and symbol language to represent phases and symptoms effectively. Timeline visualizations were also developed for reviewing cycle history over multiple months.
More information on this mobile application is available here.
