SUMMARY
Med Alarm is an elderly-friendly mobile app that helps record medicine lists and doctor appointments. We designed Med Alarm with two interactive interfaces for two types of users: View Demo to explore the App!
Primal User: Elderly people
Second User: Caretaker, which include doctor, families who take care of the primal user.
The caretaker has access to help primal user login and manage medicines and doctor appointments.
Team Member
Duration
Skills
Tools
Fiona Wang, Vivian Li, Qingchen Dang, Yuhan Wang
6 weeks
User Research, Storyboarding, Wireframing, Paper-Prototype, Competitive Analysis, User Testing
MY ROLE
I did User Research, Storyborading, Wireframing, Prototyping, User Testing with 5 teammates. I came up with this design idea and decided the color scheme. I'm also in charge of the project management. I organize the develop plan, take meeting notes schedule team meetings and check the progress.
Site Map
Primal User flow
Care Taker User flow
Key Features
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We designed two interactive interfaces (primal user and second user) to assist elderly people but also give them a way to be more independent.
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Supporting font and color adjustment to accommodate elderly vision problems
Caretaker manage the patients
Patient's information
Primary User's home page
Log in medicine information
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Large Fonts, buttons and layout designed for elderly people
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Comfortable color scheme designed for elderly people
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Scan the bar code to easily input medicine information
Design Process
StoryBoarding & Paper Prototype
Based on the above paper prototype, we did preliminary user testing, we organized the feedbacks and consolidate them in different categories by app pages. (see Documents)
Wireframing
Key Challenges
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Elderly people are not familiar with mobile apps.
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Many apps require users to manually input detailed info about medicine
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Elders tend to have vision problems which lead to difficulty to use apps
Spaces for Improvement
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Available in multiple languages
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Enable medicine translation function
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Add voice input
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Add “Notes” feature
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Further user testing on elderly people
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User feedback to confirm if elders have taken medicine