Menty B
A calm, judgment-free companion for anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm.
- Web app
- Custom GPT
- Conversational design
Problem
When anxiety or panic hits, most people do not need a lecture or a login wall. They need something calm, immediate, and judgment-free. Most wellbeing apps bury that moment of need under onboarding and subscriptions.
Approach
I designed and built Menty B as a companion that opens straight into a simple check-in and routes to what helps: guided breathing, grounding exercises, affirmations, a wind-down mode, and a clearly separated crisis help section that points to real support. Alongside the web app, I built a custom GPT agent version, designing the conversational flow end to end.
Outcome
A live, complete companion app, and my most personal project: an exercise in designing AI interactions where tone matters more than features.
Learnings
- 01
Designing for someone mid-panic inverts normal product thinking: fewer choices, softer language, zero friction.
- 02
Knowing where an AI companion must stop and hand over to human crisis support is a design decision, not an afterthought.