Product Design
Design Strategy
Product Designer
San Francisco, CA
2022.04 -Current
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Curea supports the cancer survivors as resourceful and knowledgeable caregivers by helping the survivors organizing their tasks, scheduling their events, monitor their feelings, and finding valuable resources for them throughout the journey.
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Provide support from physical, social, educational and emotional side to improve quality of life and to coordinate care for patients regardless of the stage of disease
Barriers are found between Cancer Survivor, the caregiver, and the professional resources, that prevent the two sides building a smooth and efficient connection. Those barriers are causing a significant burden for the patient and their care givers.
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As a technology company dedicated to supporting cancer patients through their survivorship journey, Bluenote could provide assistant services and products that bridge the cancer patients with the support system and facilities.
During the long survivorship, the patient might not be the only one who needs assistance with the Curea system.At the same time, the patient might not be the most suitable audience to introduce this product. Through the research, stakeholders who has higher motivation and lowest barriers are picked as the early adoptors
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The Progress section is connected to health care providers, and the user's medical insurance accounts for treatment guidance, which allows the patient less burden on learning and planning each step. The first page also includes a reminder for upcoming events.
New events added by the health care provider will appear with a red dot. While the patient receives the task, they could log it into their own calendar.
The Calendar section allows the survivors to schedule their medical events and the related tasks. The app adopts a new log method specifically designed for the survivors and their caregivers to simplify the scheduling process.
The system allows the patients and caregivers to schedule events direct with their health care providers and also provide locations and directions to guide them to the new facilities. The Calendar also suggests the most recent tasks and appointments that allow the users to make their decision with just one click.
The Feeling section allows the users to document their emotions either through the app or through the wrist monitor. The feelings documented in this section will include emotional responses and also body reactions like pain, nausea, or certain physical emotional response like pulse rate rise.
This could make the communication between the users and the therapist much easier and make the documentation much accessible than taking journals. By comparing the documented feelings and the event that was happened during the time, the patients and the therapists could identify patterns and causes for the emotions.
The Search section organizes links to the authentic resources for the patients to browser for. Possible content will be like nutrition suggests, meditation tutorials, in-network health care providers, and even job searching platforms.
To help some patients ease the financial burdens and their eagers make a contribution and participated in the community, the search board also collects tasks that were published by the local patients and caregivers.
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Inspired by the hospital wrist band and the subconscious grabbing gesture that happened while the patient's experience extreme emotion, an extra wrist product was designed to support the Curea app.
Inspired by the natural texture, the design of the wrist monitor maintained an organic shape to offer a calming aesthetic.
To help the patient interact and apply different hand gestures to the monitor, the form follows the curve of the holding fingers.
Optical Fibers are embedded around the surface of the monitor that lights up to mimic a wave lighting effect to help the patients meditate anywhere they want.
Squeeze the monitor to document the pain
Vibrates for any notification and extreme emotion response detected
Heats and lights up in breath patterns to help adjust breath pattern for meditation
Documents emotion related responses, such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc.
Replaceable battery module allows the survivors use it 24/7
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Starting with this special topic, the first step was to understand survivorship, explore the mental intervention method, the FDA requirements, and etc. By chatting with actual cancer survivors, observing experience records, talking to health care professionals insights are found to help guide the design process.
To gain deeper knowledge about creating an engaging experience or product, research was conduct based on popular or therapy-related apps, products, and experience. The goal was to build products and have fewer barriers and high motivation to the target audience, especially the possible early adopters.
Based on the identified barriers, the concepts were build to ease patients' and their caregivers' physical, emotional, social, and educational burdens. The goal was to provide supports that improve the survivors' life quality and coordinate care for patients regardless of the stage of the disease, even after the end of the medical treatment.
Scenarios were created for the exam and help dissect every step of the experience and the concepts.
In order to understand the user journey, text and drawing scenario were created to create the foundation of the concept. While the details were adding up, quick rapid prototype were made to experiment with the key architecture of the product.
Rapid prototypes and real person scenarios are created to test out the app and the product. Though the scenarios, I was able to identify more details and wireframe hierarchy that needed for refinement. The product ergonomics were also tested during this phase to reduce the user's burden during the experience.
The final design has minimized to an app design and an extended wrist monitor to avoid extra burden cost to the survivors. Taking the inspiration from the common music and videos from the meditation therapy, the products share a calming and clean aesthetic and struction.
