A little over a year ago I started a new job at a new company called MeYou Health. I interviewed with all four of it’s employees and happily accepted a job as a user experience designer at a company without any products or services. Most of the early months were filled with hiring passionate, bright and thoughtful people.

As a designer, there is nothing more daunting or exciting than a blank canvas. Unsaddled with previous decisions and pressed with a complex task of building a consumer brand around health and well-being. Everyday brings new ideas, new hypothesis  and new designs to bridge the gap between accessible and effective well-being products.

Over the last year we’ve built a portfolio of products:

Daily Challenge – Everyday we email members a small action related to well-being. They have 24 hours to complete the task and mark it as done. We’ve added social and gaming mechanics to help efficacy and user engagement.

Monumental – An iPhone application that uses the internal accelerometer to detect stair climbing and allow users to virtually climb buildings and monuments around the world.

Well-Being Wire - Easily digestible health and well-being articles written designed to be quick and powerful reads.

EveryDrink - An Adobe Air application that you install to your computer’s desktop. It slowly fills with water reminding you to drink water before it overflows! If you are away from your desk it will send you a text message.

Change Reaction - A Facebook application asks users to do one small action for their well-being and they ask their friends to join them causing a change-reaction.

Twitter Well-Being Tracker (coming soon) – Allows you to take a survey and get your well-being score. Connect through Twitter and you can get the aggregate score of your followers who have also taken the survey.

Well-Being Bot (coming soon) – Each day we listen to over 2 million conversations taking place on Twitter. Each conversation is categorized into the six domains of well-being (Life Evaluation, Emotional Health, Physical Health, Healthy Behaviors, Work Environment, and Basic Access) and scored as positive or negative on a scale of 1-100. Each day the bot “tweets” the new score.

Well-Being Tweets (coming soon) – An application that curates twitter conversations about well-being and puts them in one convenient place.

In 2011 expect this list to be much longer…

Each day brings new challenges, new opportunities to be creative and a great environment to develop ideas. Everyone at MeYou Health is a contributor, a supporter and a friend willing to embrace or challenge ideas head as we all discover the best ways to bring our products to our customers.

The last year has provide me the opportunity to exercise my creativity stretch my curiosity and move with the speed of the market. I can’t wait to see what 2011 will bring!