Wrapping Up Bloom After: Week 4 Polish & Full Sprint Retro

This post wraps up the final sprint week of Bloom After, a mental health support platform for mothers dealing with postpartum depression.

• •The app features an educational hub, clinic finder, and story library designed to be calming and easy to use for overwhelmed users
• •Week 4 focused on UI polish, end-to-end testing, and bug fixing rather than new feature development
• •The Crisis page was improved by pinning helplines to the top and replacing a separate page with a fast-loading modal
• •A key CSS lesson learned: using dvh (dynamic viewport height) instead of vh prevents modals from being hidden behind mobile address bars
• •The retrospective noted that a modular folder structure should be established from Day 1 to avoid late-stage file path rewrites