Hackathon prototype matured into a complete product vision with manager-ready wellbeing analytics.
Genki is a team dashboard where employees log their mood each day, set where they are working (home, office, or at a client), and share anonymous feedback or ideas in a Think Tank.
Charts and diagrams aggregate moods and locations over time so managers can understand team wellbeing, spot mood swings, and reflect on what might be driving them.
01Outcome
From hackathon spark to product vision
A shelved but complete product vision with analytics managers could use in 1:1s, retros, and planning — daily mood, location, and anonymous contribution in one calm dashboard.
02Project context
Annual surveys are too slow
Managers often lack a lightweight, ongoing read on team mood — annual surveys are too slow, and ad-hoc check-ins do not scale when people are remote, on-site, or at clients on different days.
Teams needed a humane way to track wellbeing and surface ideas between formal reviews.
03Evolution
Growing the prototype
Genki began as a hackathon concept — a simple way for teams to check in on mood and surface thoughts. I led UX from that first prototype through high-fidelity dashboards, charts, and mobile flows.
Before
After
Early hackathon prototype → refined mobile mood tracker.
04Solution
One calm dashboard
The main view brings mood, work location, and trends into one screen — employees check in within seconds, and managers see how the team feels today and how patterns evolve.
SMA Team Mood Tracker — dashboard overview.
05Analytics
Trends, not snapshots
Charts and diagrams aggregate moods and locations over time so leads can spot swings, compare weeks, and discuss causes with the team retroactively.
01Key insight
A single day's mood says little on its own — managers need patterns over weeks to read what is actually happening in the team.
Design response — Widget-level charts break down today's sentiment, work location, and mood over the last seven or thirty days — built for quick trend reading in 1:1s and retros.
Mood Today, Work Location Over Time, Work Location, and Mood Over Time.
06Think Tank
Lowering the bar to speak up
Employees post ideas and feedback anonymously or by name. A simple publish flow and card feed keep contributions lightweight while giving managers a pulse on what the team is thinking.
