Diabetes Check app

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Diabetes Check app

Diabetes check is a simple and intuitive application for diabetes patients of all ranges of ages. Diabetes Check app allows users to control their blood sugar and change their lifestyle in order to have a healthy life.

Institution:

Humber college

Date:

Autumn 2019

Responsibilities:

Conducting user interview
Research phase
Storyboard
Sketching wireframes
Producing Low-Fi and High-Fi wireframe

In 2017, 7.3% of Canadians were diagnosed with diabetes (roughly 2.3 million people) (Statistics Canada, 2017).

Challenge:

To help patients monitor their blood-sugar levels,
To provide the users with historical and analytical data related to long-term changes in their blood-sugar levels,
To enable the user to export their report to their physician in a comprehensible format.
To provide a great user experience while doing all this.

Solutions:

DiabetesCheck application is a mobile application that aims to help patients to establish regular routines in order to facilitate daily blood-sugar monitoring and improve their lifestyle by implementing a scheduled diet and exercise.

Product

Diabetes application provides the possibility of monitoring blood sugar for patients.

This application facilitates the tracking process by providing the share feature that makes it easy to share the process/report with doctors.

You are even able to set a daily or weekly exercise and track it by setting up a reminder and adding different exercises depending on your preference and the time you want to dedicate to the workout.

Diabetes application makes it possible to monitor your daily diet and make sure you are eating regarding your body needs.

You are able to scan all food that leads you to a healthy lifestyle.

In addition, the user would be able to search for a special meal and save it into the application.

The user would be able to set a reminder for daily/weekly check in terms of activity, meals, and blood sugar tracking.

Human-centered design

To create an informed user experience, and get a deeper insight into user behaviors, needs, and motivations through observation techniques, interviews, and feedback methodology to improve the usability of the product, we implemented the human-centered design process.

01. Empathize

To understand the user and get a deeper insight into the problem area, my team conducted research, including observation, and interview, to gather all the pain points and gains from a patient's perspective. Asking questions like:

What they do

What they want

How they think

What motivates or discourages users

Where do they experience frustration?

to establish common ground among team members and to understand and prioritize user needs, we created an empathy map.

Pain points:

They have to monitor their blood sugar with glucometers and do it several times, maybe every day. It is a physically painful experience.

They find it cumbersome and difficult to keep a historical track of their blood sugar.

They do not follow a specific diet, but they look for good dietary suggestions.

Have to visit a doctor very often.

I conducted two interviews with individuals between the ages of 45-65. Totally, we interviewed 6 participants from a wide range of ages and backgrounds from different countries and cultures.

02. Define

Combining all our research and observing where our users’ problems exist. In pinpointing our users’ needs, begin to highlight opportunities for innovation.

Based on the interviews that have been done, we gathered loads of data to create a persona to synthesize the key behaviors, goals, and pain points of our target audiences.

Persona

Personality: Interests:

Extrovert Technology

Deep thinker Social media

Compassionate Mobile application

John Green

Bio:

Age: 40

Occupation: software developer

Status:

Married

Location:

Toronto

John is a determined software developer in a leading company. He is a family-oriented guy who has a lot of responsibilities at work and at home as well. As he is getting older, he couldn't help but notice the changes in his body due to his unhealthy lifestyle. Now he feels the need to adopt a digital application in order to keep track of his health and also, getting dietary suggestions.

Gain:

To follow a strict diet plan and cut down on unhealthy eating and drinking habits,

Maintain a healthy and active lifestyle,

To keep his diabetes in control and prioritizing his health

Challenges:

Keeping diabetes in check and maintaining blood sugar level every day,

Committing to a specific diet and following it every day,

Busy schedules disrupting his treatment,

Unexplained weight-loss, varying blood pressure, high Cholesterol,

Reminding himself to take prescribed medication every day.

The information was unexpectedly enlightening to get a deeper insight into the problem area and help us to narrow it to specific areas that are more considerable.

People, as always are a symbol of courage and determination and with time can even overcome something that doesn’t let them eat what they want.

How might we...help John to keep track of his health

and manage diabetes on his own?

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Brainstorming a range of crazy, creative ideas that address the unmet user needs to be identified in the define phase.

Based on our "How might we..." statement, we came up with a lot of ideas for potential features in our solution. Some of the ideas were good, some were okay and others were not feasible.

We then grouped and prioritized the ideas on the basis of importance and feasibility.

03. Ideate

Ideas:

Prioritization grid:

Big Question- App or Wearable?

After all the brainstorming and big ideas, we decided to go with a mobile application since recording the readings on a wearable like a watch could be difficult as the screen is small.
Also keeping the records and reading the dietary suggestions would be difficult.
Moreover, as everyone has cell phones, a mobile application would be more accessible
Furthermore, as our targeted users are 40-65 years old not all of them are going to be familiar with wearables and might have difficulty operating.

Sketches:

Individual sketches allowed us to try out multiple UI ideas and choose the best out of the lot
We gathered all our sketches together and decided as a team which ones had the best way of navigation and presentation of the UI elements and features.

Feedback from paper prototyping:

The user liked the minimalistic design on the home page. It’s pretty simple and not cluttered,
The user could easily follow through with the paper prototype,
Overall, the user didn’t struggle much with our paper prototype. He liked the idea of integrating all the features into one. So, we are moving forward with this concept by doing a few modifications,
Moving forward, we are going to turn our paper prototypes into low-fidelity wireframes and gather feedback for the same,
Subsequently, move on to high-fidelity wireframes.