Medibuddy
MOBILE APPLICATION DESIGN
We designed an application that reminds users of daily medications, vitamins, and supplements. This application also helps users order refills and use their Amazon account or order vitamins and supplements.
Roles & Responsibilities:
User Research (Interviews + Surveys) • Competitive Analysis • Research • Usability Testing • Interaction Design • Prototyping • Presentation
The Problem
This concept came to us as a personal project. Many friends of mine with elderly parents have up to 20 or more medical prescriptions to take per day. The average person has 5 to 12 medications. How can we better manage these prescriptions? How can one person remember to take multiple medications per day? Why can’t we use an application to help remind us? Can this help assist our caregivers?
Problem: Many users struggle to manage their medicine and vitamins daily, often leading to incorrect or even missed doses.
Solution: We believe by designing an application that assists the users with their daily medication and vitamin routine, we can also offer a healthier way of living. Make Medibuddy your gentle reminder buddy.
Research Plan
We started our interview plan with three interviews to help discover what concerns users faced when taking their daily medications, vitamins, and supplements.
Before we conducted our interviews, we believed this application to remind users to take medications only. Then we added vitamins and supplements as a last-minute thought. We expected the number of daily vitamins and supplements to be minimal.
We learned from our interviews that many participants use daily vitamins and supplements just as much as daily medications. Therefore, we incorporated this information into our application design.
Survey Results
We surveyed 91 participants, aging from 20-60 years old, to gain a broader perspective on their daily medication and vitamin routines.
This survey showed us more than half of the participants took one or more vitamins daily.
We were sorting through the responses from our interview. We narrowed them into three topics.
We learned from this survey that vitamins and supplements were just as essential to participants’ daily routine as medications.
With this information, we started creating thoughts about how we want users to use the app, make these the main priority.
User flow
With the age range of the users in mind, we started mapping out the flow of our app. It has to be easy to use but also incorporates vitamins, supplements, and Amazon orders.
Sketches and Prototypes
We started to think about when users are taking their daily medications, how to display them visually. As a result, we came up with different calendar views and customized health tip pages to their health needs.
Testing and Revisions
Bottom navigation
The bottom navigation was straightforward and needed some additional icons. First, we added icons that better explained where the user was in the app. These icons better defined the users’ needs. We then removed the text under the icon and changed the opacity of the icons of menus not being used.
Types of medicine
To add more visual confirmation of the medications, we designed the reminders to have graphical icons matching the current medicine.
Dark to the light mode
Some of the feedback we received from user testing showed us users liked the dark mode but found it hard to read. The importance of clear communication between the user and app comes down the readability. For more straightforward readability, we re-designed the application in light mode, keeping it clean and concise.
In Conclusion
Some of the feedback we received from user testing showed us, users. We believe in creating a visual platform that helps guide users to remember to take medications according to the instructions prescribed by the doctor. Not only remind users to take vitamins and medications, but also order supplements. Therefore, making this application useful to users who aren’t on medications and those who are. We believe this application can reach a broader audience.
