Companion is an application I worked on with my friend Dan. Targeted at SMEs, it’s a toolkit for organisations to build healthy and productive workplaces.

It contains over 50 audio and written guides, breathing exercises, and strategies to help deal with common causes of workplace stress and anxiety - from managing pressure through to challenges like imposter syndrome.

Role and Impact
– As sole designer, my role spanned product design, prototyping, ongoing product development, social media, marketing website design, investor decks…
– Developed a lightweight design system
– Featured on the NHS App Library
– 100k downloads and counting
– Customer base of several SMEs
– Acquired by employee engagement provider Terryberry in 2023


A selection of Companion's customers...

📝 Onboarding and plan creation
Create your personalised mental wellbeing plan full of actionable strategies written by our team of experts. Receive a strategy prompt every morning to help you to build healthy habits.
🛠️ Workshops
Access our weekly online workshops focused on helping you manage your mental wellbeing and build your mental resilience in the workplace. After the session, a recording can be accessed within the app and users can interact with the host and other community members.
🧭 Explore
Companion's library of expert audio guides is constantly being updated, and right now there are 300+ guides covering over 40 different topics. If you want to learn about stress, discover how to communicate more effectively or find a better work/life balance, there's an expert audio guide just for you.
🏋️ Exercises
We created a set of breathing and thought reframing exercises to relax and reduce anxiety. They really do work.
📷 Social media and marketing
This was all managed by myself and Dan in the early days. As well as assisting with Instagram and Soundcloud posts, I helped deliver a marketing website and numerous sales decks in the pursuit of investment (and yes, some of them worked!).
🧰 Component library
The application is built in React by a remote development team. Hand-off is done using Zeplin, and we quickly established a lightweight design system which allows us to build and test new things, fast.