UX & Product Design

O1 Journal (Overview)

A holistic wellness journal for everyday health, low-pressure enough to actually keep up with.

  • Stationery Design
  • Graphic Design
  • Consumer Wellness
  • Launched Nov 2025
The O1 Journal, closed, on a yellow plate with a fork, surrounded by a lemon, two limes, an orange, and a carton of eggs on blue cloth.
Timeline
Apr –⁠ Oct 2025
Type
Professional · nochtane
Role
Creative Lead · Concept & Product
Team
Jessica ZhanFounder & CEO Wenjing HuangHead of Marketing
My contribution

Concept and design, six-pillar framework, page layouts, illustrations, stickers, product page, photo direction, market research.

Context

nochtane needed a product beyond its debut winter light therapy lamp. This began as a health tracker I made for myself, and consulting lamp fans grew it into the full 13-week journal. It is UX in analog form: structure, prompts, and rewards guiding users toward healthier habits. Our founder handled manufacturing in China, and I designed it remotely from the US. I'm now leading design for nochtane's first smart lamp and its app.

Snapshot

The whole thing had to fit in ten minutes a day

Problem

Stressed young adults in urban China want healthier habits, yet nearly 40% of the 150 we surveyed could not keep even one. Wellness journals across East Asia are built on toxic positivity, productivity, or dieting, and filling one in feels like homework.

Solution

O1 is a 13-week system built on a six-pillar health framework: gentle prompts, visual trackers, and playful weekly sticker unlocks guide achievable daily practices in five to ten minutes. Long venting can worsen a bad mood, so reflection stays short.

Outcomes
  • A fan who is a psychologist called it a fitting therapeutic complement to our light therapy lamp
  • MBTI "P" types on RedNote, who usually struggle with consistency, enthusiastically shared their progress
  • A tester for our next lamp knew us only through the journal, and chose a second journal over a free lamp

Final Product

A hand holding the journal in front of its kraft box, printed "one day at a time", with the sticker sheets and pamphlet laid out below.
A hand holding the journal open, lying flat at 180 degrees, its yellow ribbon over the spine.
A social post: someone walking outdoors with a water bottle, the journal under their arm, overlaid with the daily habits module tracking water, sunlight, and exercise.
O1's room, an illustrated spread part furnished with unlocked stickers: a curtain, a guitar, a shelf, and a dog bed.
Stickers unlocked each week furnish O1's room.
The journal leaning against its kraft box, the pamphlet and sticker sheets laid out in front.
The health wheel, six spokes radiating from a small figure, each axis scored one to ten.
The six pillars: sunlight, rest, movement, physical nourishment, mental nourishment, and social connection.
The journal held up outdoors against greenery, a green plant sticker unlocked on its cover.
The feelings page, a vocabulary of moods to mark, several of them already highlighted.
Weekly reflection word cloud.
The journal from above, the pamphlet and sticker pouch fanned out behind it.
The mood scale printed along the page edges, a row of small icons down the closed journal's fore-edge.
The mood scale runs along the page edges.
A close-up of the cover, "one day at a time" debossed into the blue beside the yellow elastic band.
A social post: someone in headphones writing in the journal on a bed, overlaid with the mood check-in module and its doodle.
The journal lying beside a phone, for scale, a little larger than it.
A social post: someone drawing at a green cafe table with an iced coffee and the journal beside them, overlaid with the day's intention module.
A daily spread filled in by hand, its habit bars marked and notes written down both pages.
Sleep, water, sunlight, and movement, tracked daily.
Hands peeling a sticker from the weekly sheet resting in the open journal.
A weekly object unlock page with the dog sticker placed on it, the colored page edges showing.
Four weekly unlock pages, each on its own color with the week number behind it and one object revealed: exercise equipment, drinking water, a speaker and records, and a photo frame.
The journal on a yellow plate with a fork, among eggs, bread, corn, a lemon, an orange, and limes on blue cloth.
An exploded stack of the journal's page layouts: the six-pillar wheel on top, then a habit grid, the illustrated room, a feelings page, a daily log, and the cover.
Thirteen weeks across 256 pages.
The weekly review spread, four boxed prompts across two pages.
A social post: a homemade drink and the journal on a weathered wooden table, overlaid with the one good thing module.
A week written in by hand, its bar charts filled and moods marked on the facing page.
Someone sitting cross-legged, writing in the journal on their lap.
A close-up of the colored page edges, cream and peach blocks fanning open above the yellow ribbon and the debossed cover.

The Community

collage of customer photos of their own journal pages
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