Aveo

Degree Project 2025

Chronic illness and mental health struggles are on the rise, yet conventional medicine—mainly focused on symptom management rather than root causes—often offers little lasting relief. Patients are left navigating a frustrating cycle of trial-and-error treatments, investing time, energy, and money while still searching for answers. Aveo proposes a new approach: A holistic, non-invasive, and intelligent wellness companion that empowers people to take healing into their own hands. By bridging ancient practices like meditation, breathwork, and guided reflection with advanced technologies such as biofeedback, light, and sound therapy, Aveo supports deep transformation on physical, mental, and emotional levels. With Aveo, healthcare becomes accessible, proactive, and rooted in self-awareness—where healing unfolds from within.

Project Information

Challenge

Chronic illness and mental health disorders are rising at alarming rates. Despite cutting-edge advances in modern medicine, conventional healthcare systems remain largely reactive, focused on treating symptoms with pharmaceuticals rather than addressing root causes. For people with chronic conditions, this means years of navigating uncertainty, side effects, and emotional exhaustion—often feeling helpless, frustrated, and abandoned in a maze of trial-and-error solutions. Treatments are fragmented, expensive, and rarely provide lasting relief or clarity.

Potential 

What if healing didn’t only lie in external treatment, but in reawakening the inner intelligence of the human body?

At the heart of this project lies the intention to unlock the full potential of health and wellbeing by bridging ancient wisdom with modern science for a holistic, non-invasive and self-empowering approach to treating chronic conditions from the comfort of people's homes.

Ancient traditions understand health as a dynamic state of harmony between body, mind, and spirit. Today’s research affirms the profound impact of mindset, perception, and frequency-based tools in supporting healing. What if these methods weren’t just alternative, but complementary? What if we intentionally designed tools that empowered people to reconnect, self-regulate, and heal from within?

Relevance

Aveo is relevant to anyone navigating chronic conditions, but also to healthcare professionals and designers shaping the future of wellness. As healthcare systems strain under rising demand, there is a growing need for preventative, self-directed, and awareness-driven solutions that promote resilience and autonomy.

Method

This project explores how a synergy of sound, light, guided meditation, breathwork, and therapeutic reflection can support lasting wellbeing. Insights from scientific studies, expert interviews, and a user-centred design process shaped the concept into a practical, emotionally resonant experience. A field trip to explore wellness technologies in Stockholm offered valuable input on feasibility, user perception, and therapeutic potential.

Result 

What is Aveo

Aveo is a modular wellness companion designed to support individuals on their journey from pain and confusion to relief and clarity. Aveo supports users in identifying and treating root causes, and developing healthy habits for lasting wellbeing.

How it works

Aveo offers guided therapeutic experiences using light, sound, and mindfulness practices, all tailored to the user’s needs through intelligent feedback. With bio- and brainwave sensing technologies, real-time insights, and AI-powered guidance, Aveo helps users become aware of internal states, teaches how to intentionally shift towards wellbeing, and explains how the practices benefit their health. It provides clarity, structure, and effective tools—turning passive treatment into active transformation.

What sets Aveo apart

Unlike fragmented health tools, Aveo provides an all-in-one toolbox to explore what works, grow through the process, and stay well in the long term. It brings together ancient and modern healing in a soft, elegant design—inviting a shift from dependence to agency, from confusion to clarity, from helplessness to self-trust, from surviving to thriving.

Corinna Diestel

Master's Programme in Advanced Product Design
Challenge: User journey illustrating the pain points and needs.

Challenge: User journey illustrating the pain points and needs.

Potential: Bridging ancient wisdom with advanced technology to unlock the full potential of health and wellbeing.

Potential: Bridging ancient wisdom with advanced technology to unlock the full potential of health and wellbeing.

Testing brainwave measuring devices with potential users to understand what excites, motivates, and informs.

Testing brainwave measuring devices with potential users to understand what excites, motivates, and informs.

Gaining insights into brainwave patterns and inspiration from the professional brainwave sensing devices Mind Mirror.

Gaining insights into brainwave patterns and inspiration from the professional brainwave sensing devices Mind Mirror.

Ideation Workshop: Exploring how technology might inform our senses to guide the user during the practices and increase motivation

Ideation Workshop: Exploring how technology might inform our senses to guide the user during the practices and increase motivation

Evaluating product-user touch points: Volumes, screen size, rotational mechanism, and interactions.

Evaluating product-user touch points: Volumes, screen size, rotational mechanism, and interactions.

Aveo - A modular wellness companion designed to support individuals on their journey from pain and confusion to relief and clarity.

Aveo - A modular wellness companion designed to support individuals on their journey from pain and confusion to relief and clarity.

Reflective Journaling: Uncover root causes with the help of the AI-powered therapy guidance.

Reflective Journaling: Uncover root causes with the help of the AI-powered therapy guidance.