We chose to focus on one type of persona to help us address this problem:

 

George is a 23 year old man from the city. He’s a young professional, spending most of his time at work or at home. He has recently been diagnosed with a disease that requires him to take medicine every day. Although he is usually near his medication, being at home or at work most of the time, he often forgets to take his medication, because he isn’t prompted to take it by the people around him who he relies on to remind him because he’s pretty forgetful. His goal is to be more independent. He hates that he has to rely on the people around him to keep himself alive, so he wants something that can help him stop doing that.

 

He has quite a few needs:
• He needs to be reminded whenever he has a dose
• Because he’s constantly busy, he needs to be reminded when his prescription needs to be refilled at a pharmacy
• He needs the contact information for both his doctor and his pharmacy on hand so he can quickly call them if an emergency arises
• He needs instructions to take his medicine, in case he forgets how to administer it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our mobile application offers a chance to help people like George. It’s a medical app that focuses on making medication more accessible to people. By providing them with reminders, it allows them to keep more in contact with their medication schedule, but it also allows them the flexibility to postpone the reminder for a few hours, in case administering their medication isn’t appropriate at a certain time.

 

These are wireframes to show the initial ideas for the workflow of the app. This was then refined and streamlined to focus on only the essential functions that our persona wanted out of the app. It means that it gives the bare minimum function, but still meets all the criteria necessary. While being the bare minimum, it means that the person can have a simplified app that is easy to use, without sacrificing function.

This screen takes over the app when medication needs to be taken. That requires you to pay attention to it, and settle on a specific time to take it if you choose to postpone it.

This is a slider that goes down every time someone says that they've taken their medication. When they are getting close to running out, it turns red and a button appears to refill their prescription. This would be linked to the phone number of your pharmacy, as many pharmacies still rely on a phone call for refills.

Works to simplify the list of items they need to properly administer their medication. In cases where medication can take many forms (e.g. a liquid in a bottle, a pill), it makes it easy to clearly identify which medication is which.