Shift is a co-designed app that provides the right support for problem anger, at the right time.

Spark Digital worked closely with researchers and people with lived experience to define the strategic direction for the app through a series of co-design workshops. These sessions explored user needs, behaviours and the types of support people found most valuable at different stages of anger escalation. The insights informed the app’s content strategy, intervention model, user experience and even its name, ensuring the solution reflected the real-world needs of veterans and first responders while remaining grounded in evidence-based psychological approaches.

Spark Digital designed and developed a co-designed mobile app that delivers personalised, evidence-based support for people experiencing problem anger. Key features included personalised onboarding, psycho-educational content, mood and anger monitoring, CBT-based coping strategies, self-guided “circuit breaker” interventions, personalised calming tools, crisis support pathways and tailored recommendations based on users’ mood patterns. The app was designed to provide the right support at the right time, helping users better understand, monitor and manage their anger.