About the Project & Event

Presenting Anchor at SAIT CapCon was one of the highlights of my time at SAIT. After months of research, iteration, and late nights in Figma, getting to set up a booth and walk real people through what we built was incredibly rewarding. Seeing industry professionals and fellow students engage with the app, asking questions, trying the prototype, reading through our poster, made the whole process feel worth it.

Anchor is a mental health and wellness app designed to make emotional support feel approachable and human. The core problem we tackled: 1 in 5 Canadians struggle with mental health challenges each year, yet most wellness apps feel clinical, cold, or hard to stick with. Anchor combines AI journaling, guided exercises, and a gamified check-in system with a calm, intuitive interface, built on solid UX research and accessibility principles. The goal was simple: make mental wellness tools feel less like a chore and more like a conversation.

CapCon pushed us to communicate our design decisions clearly, defend our research, and present confidently to people who've actually shipped products. It was a real taste of what it looks like to bring a concept all the way from problem statement to polished prototype, and I left with a lot of momentum.