Bunadh was never meant to replace therapy, it says so on its own welcome screen. It set out to give people a space to process a breakup that doesn't feel like homework. That's exactly what the research asked for.

People who walked through the prototype called it practical, easy to use, optimal for what it was trying to do. More than one described it as something that made healing feel less solitary, less like a task to manage alone, more like something to move through with others. That's the part that mattered most: the idea wasn't just usable, it was landing emotionally.

Mood tracking pulled the most attention of anything in the app, and it's the piece I'd go back to first. Right now, it's still built on prompts, pick a feeling, rate a factor. Given more time, I'd want to run a co-design workshop with people further along in their healing, not just to ask better questions, but to test other ways of capturing how someone feels: a colour they'd pick without thinking, a short voice note instead of a form, a gesture or a photo of their day. Something closer to how people actually process a hard week than a checklist ever could be. That's the version of Bunadh I'd want to build next.

The other place I'd push harder: community moderation. A support app lives or dies on how safe that space actually feels, and that's not something a four-week project gets to prove on its own.