Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) requires staying on track with meds but when issues arise and a hospital visit is necessary, patients need extra help. We wanted to help prevent crisis events but also better prepare them for ER visits.
Role & team
Lead Designer working remotely with 4 SWEs and CEO in Barcelona.
Timeline
This is a side project. The work spans 3 months from kickoff to transition to engineering
Skills
User research, concept developement, brand design, UX design, visual design, prototyping
Define & Align
Challenge • Goals • User
The Challenge
Tracking is hard
People with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) endure chronic pain due to misshapen red blood cells. They face a heightened risk of serious complications like infections, strokes and organ damage.
Today, there aren’t many digital tools to help SCD patients with tracking treatments or medical data, this creates information gaps for doctors.
The Goal
Simple digital tracker
Create an app to help SCD patients easily track key data points and access personal information which can be also be easily shared with their care team.
Explorations
Delivered
Final Designs • Results • Reflection
User Authentication
Homefeed – this is where the patient can see an overview of their activity and easily track an event
Homefeed
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Tracking events – log your pain, medications, mood, water and stress
Set up – set up what you want the app to log
Tracking
Tracking events is a core flow in SCD Warrior. We created a flow where patients can easily track their medications, exercise, life style changes and crisis events.
Set up – Let the app know what you want to log
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Crisis mode – turn on crisis mode when you need to go the hospital
Messaging – Allows patients to easily communicate with their doctor or care team
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Medication set up – patients can easily set up new medication to be tracked
Adding contacts – We made it as is as possible to add trusted contacts
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Medication set up – patients can easily set up new medication to be tracked
Results & lessons learned
We launched SCD Warrior for iOS and Android and its been slowly gaining traction - it's one of the only SCD focused apps available and since the disease is rare, there won't be a large pool of user data that we can use to learn from.
1. Engagement is key, experimenting and testing with new ways to engage is critical in moving towards having an impact.
2, Our flow for onboarding had an extremely impressive completion rate, attributional to the progressive disclosure (step by step) approach.
#5
Top app for SCD
7.1k
Patient signups
49k
Events tracked