My Role and Responsibilities

• Formed project goals

• Conducted stakeholder research

• Developed personas

• Identified device opportunities

• Designed wireframes and information architecture

• Independently developed the UI styles for the final designs

• Led the design for the device interface and formatting of device UX

• Independently led creation of Invision Studio interactive prototype

• Conducted usability and research testing with nursing staff and patients Presented findings to key stakeholders and client directors

Key Learnings and Reflection

In this project I developed a deeper appreciation for the value of user testing. The target group consisted of children, parents, and nursing staff, so there was a wide range of ages, needs, and education levels to consider during the design process. Due to the variation of user conditions, it was important for me to let the testing results and feedback guide my design decisions. One example 
of how user testing helped in developing a more valuable product was how the insights the team gathered from nurses became a big influence on the outcome of the data visualization. In the early stages of the project, I assumed nurses would want to be very involved and would appreciate a more detailed and comprehensive data history of the patient progress. However, after testing a few concepts with nurses, they expressed that they had very little time to interact with the device and they were more interested in visually obvious and quick to understand data feedback. Based on this information, I designed the data feedback screen to give nurses more of a data overview of where patients were succeeding or declining as well as a visualization of the progress trends for the week and month.