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HEALTH & WELLNESS · GROUP PROJECT · 3 - MONTH
A platform for type 2 diabetes patients to connect, communicate and support each other, as well as a data base to record, share and learn about life habits. The workload was equality distributed between 3 designers and each person participated in all process.
DESIGN PROBLEM
STATEMENT
Diabetes patients face lifestyle changes and stress, leading to emotional and mental issues. It will affect their treatment attitudes and behaviors, making it a vicious cycle.
OPPORTUNITY
How to help diabetes patients to break the vicious cycle and adapt to lifestyle change?
OBJECTIVE
To create a product that mitigates mental issues of diabetes patients in order to let them better focus on healthy lifestyle and diet, and better control their disease.
LITERATURE REVIEW
It’s found that emotional health is prerequiste for physical health. When people stress about physical health, there comes a deficit in their emotional conditions (Garrett, 2014).
USER INTERVIEW
It’s found that emotional health is prerequiste for physical health. When people stress about physical health, there comes a deficit in their emotional conditions (Garrett, 2014).
PERSONA
Through user interview, we found if a patient is positive and they have also experienced a tough transition period when they’re firstly diagnosed. But if they felt negative emotion during this period. Some of patients might fall into the vicious cycle.
It inspires us that we may learn from the first type of patients and transfer the second type of patients’ journey to the positive one.
JOURNEY MAP
KEY FEATURES
USER FLOW
In the system, there are multiple relationships that a user can interact with others, being seperated into different tiers based on intimacy.
STORYBOARD
1. Diagnose type 2 diabetes. Feel depressed and can’t imagine the rest of life.
2. Discover our community and feel not alone.
3. Group chat about not only treatment, but also emotion and life.
4. Record data daily and check health report and suggestions to modify treatment strategy.
5. Meet ‘twins’ who share a similar background, learn from each other and contribute to treatment methods.
6. Decide to become a mentor to help more patients like themselves a year ago to get through the toughest time.
VISUAL GUIDELINE
PROTOTYPE
TREND AND TIPS
The twins can assign daily tasks to each other, to encourage healthy lifestyle through fun and accomplishment.
TASKS
SESSIONS
MOBILE APP
CONNECTIONS
Find someone like you. Similarities can be physical, or not. Patients with mutual interests can support each other better.
Connect with other diabetes patients. Build a community that is based on diabetes, but also expands to all other aspects of life.
DATA
Information across different people, time, and activities.
Talk to different mentors and sechule session in a planned manner. Mentors all have unique experiences and perspectives, and they give diverse suggestions on a variety of topics.
MENTOR
