User Journey
Where Users Struggle
What we offer
Application Features
Medication and home page
Users can easily manage their medication from these pages. They can check their record, import new medication schedule, and personalize the experience.
Mistakes with medicine taking!
Automated Medication Schedule Import
QR Code Scanning: Users can scan a pharmacy-provided QR code to automatically transfer medication details—such as name, form, reason, regularity, duration, and description—into the app.
Simplified Management: This feature avoids errors, eliminates manual entry, and ensures accurate, up-to-date medicine reminders with a quick scan.
Manual Import: If the QR code is missing, users can manually import the medication details.
Long text-based reminders!
Text-based reminders can be frustrating when they display long medication names, making it difficult to identify the correct pill among others. This can lead to confusion and missed doses.
Personalized Pill Identification & Alerts
Customization: Users can tailor their medication alerts by selecting icon shapes, colors, nicknames, and alert modes for taking pills and refilling the pillbox.
Pillbox filling: A visual map of the pillbox compartments assists users in correctly filling the pillbox with new pills.
Medication Memory Gap!
Elderly patients often forget to take their medications, even with reminders and without a direct prompt from caregivers, notifications alone may not ensure adherence.
Additionally, Health contacts and appointment details are spread across different platforms.
Integrated Care Support
Smart Pillbox Dashboard
Dedicated Pillbox Tab: Connected to the app via Bluetooth.
Calendar View: Displays visual cues for missed, taken, and upcoming pills.
Refilling Schedule: Shows the refill timeline for each pill in your regime.
Portable Mode
The application gives clear instruction on how to dissemble and assemble portable mode to suit the users’ needs.
Application Prototype and interactions
Pillbox Features
Re-configurable Design
The pillbox can be easily broken up into individual compartments, making it ideal for travel or daily use
Portable Connectivity
Easily connect multiple containers together for convenient travel, allowing you to take only the required compartments instead of the entire box.
Calendar Integration
The pillbox is designed with costumer's desired time and date (calendar)
Dynamic E-Ink Display
Each container features an e-ink display that changes display to indicate whether pills have been taken, providing visual reassurance at a glance.
Weight Sensor
keep track if the pills are taken accurately.
What I learned
This was a group project, so I got good at aligning scope, splitting work, and keeping one shared direction. I sharpened my information architecture and user-flow skills, got much faster at wireframing and hi-fi prototyping in Figma (Auto Layout, components, variants), and set up a small design system we could all reuse. I wrote clearer microcopy and planned for tricky edge cases—missed doses, refills, offline/BLE sync, and duplicates. Hardware limits (Bluetooth, e-ink refresh, battery) shaped UI choices, which taught me to design with real constraints. We didn't run formal user testing but iterated through heuristic reviews.
