The Beacon App

Kolano Design built the app for The Beacon, The Friendship Circle's teen mental and emotional health center in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill, and is now rebuilding it. Teens use it to check in on how they feel by picking from Kolano's feeling shapes, share posts that staff approve, sign up for events and reserve open hours. The rebuild brings the original app and its separate check-in app together on one database for iPhone, Android, iPad and the web, with a front desk kiosk mode for the center's iPads and staff tools for approving posts, running events and open hours, and seeing each day's check-ins. The rebuild is in development, and the screens here show sample content. Kolano also designed The Beacon's brand, website and interiors.