Madison Hartman

Visual Communication Design, 2019

More than 450 million people around the world live with mental illness. For an individual struggling with intense feelings of despair, fatigue, lack of motivation, or other symptoms of depression, attempting to navigate the many obstacles of getting help can feel next to impossible.

Tend is a proposed solution to finding a mental health professional that not only matches you based on your mental and physical needs, but also takes your finances, insurance, therapy preferences, and personality traits into account to provide you with your individualized, ideal specialist. Using a mobile application as the main platform allows for high accessibility, convenience, and privacy for anyone struggling with mental illness or even just day-to-day anxiety. Because, in the end, no one is any more or less deserving of therapy.

Madison Hartman graduated from the Visual Communication Design program in 2019. She has interest in the fields of branding, typography, packaging and motion design. With a minor in Japanese, she plans to further pursue East Asian studies through travel and living abroad. As a student of the OSU design department, she believes that research, collaboration, and designing with the user are essential parts of an effective design strategy.

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