Women are premenopausal for 30 years of their life and are surrounded by a plethora of tech choices to track their reproductive health, but are still unable to manage their menstrual health confidently and resort to bandaid solutions or just “learn to live with” the symptoms.
Inspired by wearable techs such as smartwatches and fertility bracelets, health dashboards, and the concept of biohacking, “making small, incremental diet or lifestyle changes to make small improvements in your health and well-being” (Jewell, 2019).
A deeper awareness of period health can be achieved by tracking vitals and physiological changes displayed in sophisticated data visualization and interactive graphs. Accompanied by bite-sized pieces of information on the menstrual cycle and lifestyle recommendations to help encourage a positive attitude on managing menstrual health.
I drafted two storyboards that illustrated the use cases of the mobile app to be designed.
After which, initial prototypes — paper prototypes were tested on users to get feedback before proceeding with higher fidelity mockups.
The wireframes looked quite different from the paper prototypes. The elliptical shape that represents the “cycle” became linear which made it clearer when the cycle begins and ends. But most of the widgets remained their structure.
These digital mocks were then designed into prototypes and were tested on users to get validation. Overall positive feedback was received but the design needed some tweaking. Mostly in the on-boarding process of the mobile app.
An A/B test was done on two designs of the on-boarding process to validate if design B was indeed a better design. Interestingly, this proved to be false and so the original design was tweaked again for a third iteration.
Here is the final design.
References
Jewell, Tim (2019). Guide to Biohacking: Types, Safety, and How To [Article]. Retrieved from https://www.healthline.com/health/biohacking
