Overview
About the Project
The goal of the project was to desgin an interactive touch point for note-taking in healthcare .
Timelines
1 month.
My Role:
Ui/UX,Visual Desgin
CARE ++
THE CHALLENGE
How might we design a system that would help improve the communication system in healthcare, and allow nurses to deliver a better professional nursing practice? How might we also integrate paperwork into our system, so that we can avoid data duplication?
DESIGN SOLUTION
Care+ is a closed-loop communication system between the hospital and its staff. The app allows the management system to assign real-time tasks to their nursing staff as their shift begins. Helping nurses to focus on the task at hand and always be where they’re needed the most. The app would allow the nurses to take notes and access previous records enabling improved patient care and safety. In addition to note-taking, an integrated medical guide would help nurses to prepare for point-of-care situations.
USER SCENARIOS
I created two user scenarios to help understand how the users would navigate across the
STRUCTURE FOR APPLICATION
WIREFRAME - MOCKUPS
Adding visual design to Mock-ups
HOW IT WORKS - CARE+
VISUAL DESIGN
The reason why I picked blue is that it produces a calming effect and is associated with health, healing, tranquillity, understanding, and softness. I picked green because it is associated with emotional healing and protection.
PURPOSE
CARE+ is a comprehensive note taking and task management app, designed to improve the information delivery and communication system of healthcare today. The app allows management to assign real-time tasks, so nurses to focus on their task at hand and always be where they’re needed the most. Nurses can take notes and have access to previous records of their patients, enabling improved patient care and safety. In addition to note-taking, an integrated medical guide would help prepare nurses for point-of-care situations. This new system eliminates duplication and enables nurses to focus on their primary duty to ensure safe, competent and ethical nursing care.
FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Reflecting on the project today, there is a lot of things I would do differently. If I did this project again, I would start with stakeholder interviews to identify the real problems, instead of making assumptions from secondary research. I would love to also do user testing and keeping the target audience and engineers, in a loop with the design process so I can make an informed design decision and work with real constraints.
As a second-year project, I had no idea of feasibility and constraints, and so I tried to accommodate every single feature idea I had for this app. Now that I look at it, the app looks really cluttered and losses the ‘easy-to-use’ aspect. I would definitely cut down on some features and prioritize the important ones based on the core user needs.
