In the UK, many women see their GP several times before anyone names perimenopause. PeriVerse gives them a shared language to carry from community sessions into a 10-minute appointment, through a printed guide and an app. 2nd place, Tsinghua Design Competition 2026.
Service & Product Designer
My role
Service design · User research (30 interviews) · Ownbeat app, end to end (solo)
Team
Jennifer Zhu, Jenny Jin, Mio Lin
Timeframe
Mar – Jul 2026 · Royal College of Art
Platform
Community service · Printed toolkit · iOS & Apple Watch
Plenty of touchpoints surround her, but only her local community reaches her directly, and no one there prepares her for the GP. PeriVerse fills that gap.
One shared language, carried from the communities she already trusts into the consulting room.
TOUCHPOINT 1 · PRINTED TOOLKIT · KNOWLEDGE MOBILISATION
A fold-out guide handed out at community sessions. One side helps her name what she’s feeling; the other is a one-page overview she fills in for her GP.
TOUCHPOINT 2 · APP · MY SOLO EXTENSION
Ownbeat carries the shared language into everyday life. She logs as she goes, so her GP notes come from records, not memory.
Four characters follow the phases of her cycle, read against her own rhythm. Two more cover everyone else: Not sure yet when Ownbeat can’t tell, Steady when there’s no cycle to track.
THE SIX CHARACTERS
Easy enough to do every day, meaningful enough to want to.
She presses and holds the character to log a period. A ring fills, the shape changes, and the moment is acknowledged.
She tells Ownbeat about her day in her own words. It sorts them into the right modules and saves nothing until she confirms.
Body & mood, Sleep, Movement, Food & drink. Each takes one tap; together they surface patterns she can confirm or reject.
FLOW 01
She answers one question, the card folds to a line, and the next module opens.
FLOW 02
When something repeats across cycles, Ownbeat asks: “Sounds right” or “Not really”.
Ownbeat speaks up only when something is worth a GP visit, and gets clearer step by step. It suggests, never diagnoses.
FLOW 03
From a calm note at day 45 to a clear GP prompt at day 90.
Everything she logs ends in a one-page summary for her GP, in the same six categories and words as the printed guide.
FLOW 04
“Prepare my GP notes” opens with the right summary already selected.
On her wrist
Log in a glance. Alerts stay on her phone.
We spent time in Menopause Cafés and community groups across London. Leaders taught women what perimenopause is, but almost no one covered how to get through a GP appointment. That gap became our focus.
women interviewed about their symptoms, GP visits and support
experts in menopause care, nutrition and community support
community partners: The Bridge, Hackney Menopause Café, Camden, Menopause Support
Communities helped her name what was happening. No one helped her say it in a 10-minute appointment.
Place at the Tsinghua Design Competition 2026
community tests, with feedback from Menopause Support, The Bridge and the Davina McCall community
Women recognised and supported earlier, not after repeated appointments.
WOMEN
COMMUNITIES
GPS