SoberRoad is an App with the goal of helping recovering addicts stay sober and on their road to recovery. The current iteration will focus mainly on substance abuse involving alcohol with plans for the future of the app being to add options for opiates and other addictions. I decided to focus on alcoholism to help me focus on the project as a whole instead of diving too deep into research on the many forms of addiction.
I decided to list out the possible features the app may have. This way I could get a better idea when it came to making the site map and sketches.
A tracker to help users track how long they’ve been sober. It should utilise some form of visualisation to make this feature more unique and appealing. This is the main feature of the app.
A feature I want to include for this is other users leaving their thoughts about certain milestones they’ve achieved that can be seen by others when they reach that milestone.
Another feature that would tie into this one is the weight, savings progression.
Community features such as messaging other users will help with uniting the users on their journey.
Users can save the money they would normally spend on substances. The app will help by taking the money and putting it into an account that can’t be accessed until a certain amount is met.
Helping the user get back into a hobbie will be great to help them on their road to recovery. Having some feature to help track and plan their days for hobbies is very important.
Tokens will be the things that users achieve upon completing different milestones. The tokens could be redeemed for vouchers and other similar monetary rewards.
The app will give the user daily notifications to help on their journey. These notifications could be quotes, milestone reminders etc.
The user will be able to find inspiring stories of those who have overcame their addictions and other similar stories.