Wellbeing through music#
Music plays a key role in our state of mind and our daily lives. It can help us raise to the exponential of our potential, or pick us up when we feel less of ourselves.
The role of music on the healing process, meditation, and healthcare is well documented, and an already established practice in many societies around the world.
SINES comes from the mind of its owner and musical producer Greg Papania, who sought a way of enhancing wellbeing and mindfulness through music creations.
His goal was to create a hub for creators and like minded authors to publish and distribute their work on a platform unlike the commercially available ones, such as Spotify and Apple Music, with an exclusive focus on promoting wellbeing and mental health on the daily routines of individuals and businesses alike.
To describe it more accurately, SINES is positioned as “a union of music and technology that aims to elevate mental health, wellness and performance optimisation in all sectors of industry and society”.
Create a digital experience that boosts healing#
SINES has the goal of extending past a mindfulness app to become an auxiliary in several health promotion industries, assisting in trauma recovery, healing, increased focus, reduce anxiety, and to be used as a companion tool in multiple healthcare and wellness industries.
While the app can be used by a single individual for meditation and wellness, its main goal is to be used as an instrument for healing on clinics and wellness spaces around the world, as well as to play a crucial part on therapy sessions by professionals.
But more than assisting in the healing process, the platform can also be used to boost the daily routines of employees and staff teams through the use of guided meditations and binaural music, providing increased focus, help to reduce fatigue, and ease anxiety.
Multiple applications and spaces#
SINES has the goal of becoming a useful wellbeing platform for several public spaces and businesses, being possible to access on iOS devices or through any capable browser via the web app version. By being able to connect to wireless speakers across a space, SINES can create a multi-room environment, each with its own vibe and sound experience.
The platform also enables support for multi-user capabilities, to allow each space owner to customise their own playlists for each individual room and delegate therapists to manage them.
How to not copy Spotify#
Developing an interface for a music streaming app that resonates with its target users while maintaining a distinctive feel from Spotify or Apple Music was an interesting challenge.
While we aimed to build a different set of interactions, there was always the established pathways tried and tested of other major platforms. This served as a lesson on all occasions; sometimes we would follow in the same direction, and on others we would divert to avoid some navigation and experience constraints identified on their usage.
Being an app built from scratch with a specific usage in mind enabled us to take some risks and innovate on certain cases, something that other apps with a more mainstream focus won’t do normally.
A clean interface and possibilities for the future#
The resulting UI provided a unique experience across app and the web interface, with a focus on the music and mindfulness.
The interface is kept to a minimum, with dark neutral tones for the background, highlighting the artwork being showcased from album covers and playlists.
In the future, following their plans to add visual content to complement the sensorial experience to help other people and businesses take their wellbeing even further, the SINES platform will have enough space to grow, upon a well defined navigation and content structure.
The expansion of the app to other creators, therapists, and teachers is also on the roadmap, will be further highlighting its role as an essential treatment medium on wellbeing and healthcare practices, and an established mindfulness tool for everyday wellness.
