An app designed to help brain cancer patients track their daily medications.
Lead Product Designer
Product Manager
Eng Lead
Clinical Advisor
Mobile Web
Hybrid iOS
3 Months
When patients are diagnosed with brain cancer, they're placed on a standard regimen of medications.
Patients often struggle to remember to take these medications because they suffer from cognitive issues like memory loss.
Poor adherence to medications often leads to poor health outcomes.
Patients struggle to remember to take their medications on-time.
"I don’t always remember to reference the paper calendar, so I often forget to take my meds."
Sarah, Age 47
Sarah, 47, Patient
"It’s scary to leave it in his hands. I don’t think he’ll remember to take the meds on his own."
Dean, Age 32
Dean, 32, Son & Caregiver
"My neighbor was a helpful reminder, she called me almost every day. If not for her, I would not be as consistent."
Jill, 58, Patient
Patients often don’t remember if they took their medication or not.
"I sometimes forget if I took my oral chemo and take it again by accident or not take it at all."
Henry, Age 55
Patient
"Sometimes, I dig through the trash to look for the opened oral chemo packet to check if I took it."
Lisa, Age 37
Patient
"I’m pretty sure I threw up my oral chemo med a few times because I forgot to take Ondansetron. I don’t always remember if I took it or not."
Billy, Age 57
Patient
Frank has a brain cancer diagnosis and doesn't have a caregiver to help him. At the doctor's office, the nurse created a paper calendar with all of his daily meds.
He references this calendar to take his medications but often forgets. He has a neighbor who will call him from time to time to remind him. Last week, he threw up his chemo med because he forgot to take his anti-nausea medication, Ondansetron, first.
After brainstorming ideas, I decided to test a design solution where we would send an SMS reminder to patients. The SMS will then link them to an in-app experience where they will see a medication checklist.
Based on the insights, I changed the SMS text message so that it would be sent for each medication time and simplified the checklist. Using imagery and text, I emphasized the concept of "right now" and took away any elements that would distract the user.
To help users focus in on what meds they need to take in a given moment, I created illustrations that represented the times of day. As the day passed, the illustrations also changed.
When users have taken all of their medications, they will see a celebratory confetti animation.
98% of surveyed participants found SMS reminders helpful.
On average, users engaged with the checklist 5 out of 7 days per week.
