03 Glucope

📱 UI/UX

My Role:
Requirement Analysis, Conceptualisation, Design, Front End Development

The Team:
5 Developers

Timeline:
6 Weeks

Technology:
Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator
HTML/CSS/JavaScript/MongoDB/

Glucope is a responsive web application developed as part of my third-year bachelor’s project. It features a dual-client interface: one for patients to report and track their glucose levels alongside related health status, and another for clinicians to monitor patient health data effectively. The application was successfully developed within a seven-week timeframe, showcasing strong project management and both design and technical skills.

No modern framework technologies are allowed according to subject requirements, all components (graphs, views) are hardcoded.

Business Requirements

Recording and tracking of four clinician-specified health data types.
Commenting on and visualising data entries.
Access to clinician's "Supporting Messages".
A digital rewards system for motivation.
A leaderboard showcasing the top 5 patients with highest engagement.
Adapt to mobile, tablet and desktop

Patients App

Receive alerts for patients requiring attention based on their data.
Manage individual patient data with tools to specify data types and safety thresholds.
Send supporting messages to patients.
View patient health data.
Write, store, and monitor patient notes and comments on data entries.

Clinician App

Thoughts on Design

Graphs is the Key

Business requirements cause great data input, graph helps design to keep minimalistic aesthetic.

User Engagement

Consistent data entry is a challenge to manage, design should be engaging, especially for patients

Developer Friendly

Limited development resources were allocated to the project, hence, the design should be able to cater the human resouces.

Visual System Concept

Efficiency
Interface should be efficient and clear
Calm
Colour palette and font should let people feel calm

Accessible
The design should be easy for people to navigate

Patient App: Responsive Design

iPad Version

Desktop Version

Patient App : User Engagement

Monetisation

User Competition

The podium-style design adds vibrancy and a playful element to the visuals.

The tree grows with the leaves users collect by recording their health data, visually representing their efforts and celebrating their progress in managing diabetes.

Solution & Design Goals

📜 Design Statement

How might we integrate birds identification, social activities planning and birds location reporting seamlessly to provide a smooth user experience?

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📒 Sharing Posts and Activities
Allowing users to share content and activities

🔍 Image Based Searching
Provide search with photos of birds and give image results

📖 Encyclopaedia of Birds
Integrate an encyclopaedia which can be modified by users.

📅 Event Planning
Let users create events and invite others to join.

📌 Birds Habitat Marking
Using users’ report data to mark the habitats of birds

User Flow

After stating the design goals, users flow were illustrated to help design team to decide information architecture of the App.

Insights were later being processed into wireframe to conduct the first round user tests.

Key functions include

View Discussions on Bird Watching
View Available Activities Nearby
Post Discussion Threads or Posts
Create Activities and Publish Them
Search Birds with Images
Contribute to Birdypedia

Wire-framing

Wireframes were generated after information architecture has been determined to facilitate communication and discussion within design team and review the design.

First round user testing was conducted using the wireframe and valuable insights were generated through this process.

Design System

Concept

We aim at creating a friendly, all-in-one birding community that supports both beginners and experts. We intend to enhance the image of connection with nature and warmth through interface design.

Design Iteration

1. Community Page: Improving Efficiency

65% of participants mentioned others’ users stories were not helpful in wireframe tests. Users primary goals were knowledge sharing and image exchange, effectively supported by the discussion and post features which needs to be highlighted.

The stories and chat were removed to improve effectiveness. This adjustment enhanced visual clarity, and positioned the ‘Posts’ section prominently above the fold, improving access to key features.

First Iteration to Final

2. Profile: Engaging Users

Users reported a lack of sense of achievement during the first round user tests. Hence, a birds collection feature was added to the profile. After capture a bird’s image, it will be added to the collection, showcasing their efforts.

With this feature, users reported they have felt more sense of achievement, making them want to use the platform.

Users’ Collection Was Added

3. Homepage: Event or Discussion?

We set out to design a social-media like platform. However, during user test, 78% users reported they would like ease access to see birding events and do not favour the idea of social media.

During next iteration, the discussion board entry was replaced with upcoming events on homepage, providing easier access to events overview.

Events Replaced Discussion Board

Design Solution

All In One Platform

NestNet offers a all in one platform for birders to organise activity and discuss birding watching relevant topic, sharing knowledge with birding group. Helping birders to connect with their community.

Know Your Birds with Ease

Identifying the bird with taking a photo. With AI, it understands what bird this is and return multimedia results.

Photo’s exif information (incl. location information) is synced with the bird species name and automatically update NestNet’s database entry about birds’ habitat location.

Engaging Users

Threads discussion is designed to cater users who would like to exchange ideas and knowledges with others in NestNet, whilst we also create the Moment feature, allowing users to simply share pictures to the community, lowering the threshold of content contribution to platform.

To offer more sense of achievement, title badges are created to honour contributions to the community, with ranks earned through posts and bird captures. More contribution would help users to earn higher titles.

Activity Planning

Planning birding activity made easy. Users can add an event, with specified time and location, and post it along with thread to engage more users in the activity.

When posting an event, users would see how many people have decided to participate in the event, including the avatar of their friends. Such design would encourage users to signup for activities, as they can see their friends are going.

User Feedback

Testing Feedback

The testing results shows users are highly satisfied with the solutions we offer, meeting the design objective we decided to meet.

“The One Platform ideal is convenient for birders to use and organise activity.“
“The capture feature and return result is straightforward, really good experience.”
“Birdy-pedia is a powerful tools helping people query birds.”
“The moments feature encourages me to share photos I took with others”
“I love the activity who connects our community”

Reflection

The design solution we proposed managed to solve the problems we observed in birding groups and helps build a birding community.

However, concerns raise when it comes to offering social network service, maintaining online discussion environment is important, especially for a service that allows people to plan event and meet in reality. Testers raised such concerns and that is not well addressed in current design.

If we had more time, we would conduct user research in online safety design and improve it accordingly.

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