Built from repeated everyday experiences of miscommunication and emotional conflict, this project reframes menopause not as a private “phase,” but as a long-term condition that often lacks language, structure, and support.
 

The project’s objective was to design MENOIA as a sustainable digital support system for long-term self-reported wellbeing tracking. It helps users build self-awareness through low-burden daily logging, reviewable trend visualization, and community-led care, while maintaining clear boundaries from diagnosis or treatment.

Through observation and research, I found that many women experience recurring emotional and physical discomfort that is difficult to quantify or explain. Sleep disruption, anxiety, irritability, and bodily unease are often dismissed or simplified, which makes individuals feel unheard in both family and social contexts. The difficulty lies not only in the changes themselves, but in the lack of a shame-free and legible framework for understanding and organizing lived experience over time.

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My approach was to create a product that sits between everyday life and professional medical systems. Instead of offering quick answers, MENOIA provides a daily structure that makes hard-to-articulate changes recordable, reviewable, and shareable. The system combines self-awareness tracking with community, events, support resources, and practice-based tasks, translating experience into small actionable steps. Its naming and language system avoid medicalized terms and shift attention from “problems” to “feelings and awareness,” guided by the slogan “FEEL YOUR LIGHT,” so users feel supported without being pathologized.