Tools
Sketch/inVision
Adobe Illustrator
Roles
UI/UX Design
Context
Time: Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Product: Designed for Android
Position: UI/UX Designer @ GApp Lab

Overview
​U Baby Fit is an EMR-integrated app that helps doctor from U-Hospital to track expectant mothers weight gain at the micro level and provide some kind of clinical assistance to pregnant women.
Entry point
Most expectant mothers can check a chart of their weight gain from doctor visit to doctor visit. How the doctor of U-Hospital to track expectant mothers weight gain at the micro level? 

Challenge
How to educate or give information to expectant mothers to taking care of their weight gain during pregnancy?
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In U-baby Fit app, we focus on input EMR data combine with User data (BMI) together. Users can take photos of their food to send their doctor for advice on how to eat better during pregnancy. Also, it offer users track their steps walked everyday and throughout a user's pregnancy.

User Research
Questionnaires and Interview

We started our research by sending out online surveys to understand how the pregnant women gain weight during their pregnancy circle.
We found some data here:
We get some of participants who were in the pregnancy period, and we get some keys points helped us to further shape our problem. ​

Key Insights
  1.  Most of pregnancy lady are their first time.
  2. They all go to the hospital regularly for check-ups.
  3. Most expectant mothers are within the BMI value range, but there are still a few pregnant women who exceed the normal BMI value.


Problem statement
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Although they have regular check, some pregnant women are still overweight during pregnancy, and doctors don't know the reasons for excessive weight gain in the short term.

User persona
The main users we are targeting are expectant mothers who enrolled University of Utah Hospital system and familiar with android smartphone. The app will provide some kind of clinical assistance to pregnant women.

Ideation
In the user research, we identify what's the information user need, and we summarize and ideate from there about the exact content ​.

We focus on four parts to assist users:
Then based on the functions, I created an Information Architecture Map to helped us understand how the users navigate through the app. ​

User testing
After ideating the functions, we build a Low-fidelity prototype. We used sketch tool to help us quickly test our designs.
Based on user testing, the user said the color change was difficult to understand the Chart, and didn't tell the exact information clearly. Thus, We unified the visual system and updated the weight graphic to better inform the users about their data from EMR record and Local record.
Visual System
Motion tab bar Design
Iterations
Users said they were confused after sending a photo message to the doctor. They didn't know what happened after clicking the "flying" icon. Also, the pop-up Message List looks weird in the middle.

Final Design

Onboarding

Through the onboarding process, we give users a short mini app introduction and offer users to sign in or create an account with the U-hospital specific Loinc code to sync their data from the U-Hospital.

Overview

Users can clearly see their data on the Home page. Also, there are other micro assitance functions to help them to keep in touch with Doctors.

Weight Record

Users can see not only their local BMI records, but also their EMR BMI records from the hospital. So doctors can track what's wrong with the pregnant woman from her next appointment.

​Photo

In the Photo function, we offer in function sharing to our users. They can share their food and thoughts with their doctors to get some feedback.  ​

​Contact

In the Contact, users can get some information about doctors and know which doctors are online or not.

BMI

Users can calculate their BMI everyday. Also, in the app, it will give a basic information regarding the better weight the pregnant lady should gain.
In the app, we also offer better readings to the users. They can save it to their favorite and share it to their friends through social media.    

Message

User can using search button to see who is online or which doctor she is familiar with to get help.

Steps
In steps, users can take records of their daily activities. In the app, it will show some landscape pictures to measure users' exercise every day.

High Fidelity

Takeaway
Offering the crucial feature is more important than offering everything.

There are many functions that can be offered through a pregnant app such as taking records of baby bump, records of contractions, kick counter, and so on. Based on user research, some expectant mothers had used other pregnant apps but only for certain features. Although other features might provide help to them, they are not their priorities, and thus become redundant to them. Instead of offering more, we should focus on the right content that fits our target users.