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01. Background
There are many medicine trackers that help people with their daily use habits. However, in the past and recently, there has been an obvious rise in the use of recreational drugs and so with that, we wanted to tackle the public safety of this turn out. It is known that some drugs interact with others in very mysterious ways. Some drugs don't interact at all were others can fuse into deadly poison if the user is unaware of the effects. And so our team decided to combat this problem of informational scarcity and designed a user interface that informs users of what is going on inside of their body!
03. Ideation
Moving to the next stage in the design process, we created personas that would portray the scenarios that our demographic would be from. Personas were also drafted in order to give us an idea of the end users we are looking to get this app to. For these personas, we decided to go with a recent college grad student and a working professional out of college.
05. Feedback + Changes
During the next critique session our team received some feedback on what we could do to make this design a little more polished and streamline. Like adding graph axis, color coding each drug and matching it to the line color, and we tried taking out the graph to see what would happen.
02. Secondary Research
We conducted Secondary User Research.
This was done through surveying real people that were in our target demographic interviewed over Zoom or in-person. We asked them a series of non-biased questions aimed for getting as much feedback on the difficulties with staying fit and what their primary motivations for drug usage were. We found that there were people who need to use drugs in order to function on a daily basis but also some users that just wanted to have fun.
We also did a competitive audit of other apps that have a similar purpose.
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04. Lo-Fidelity Prototype
We arrived at the prototyping stage where we started to draft different ideas and styles of what our app could look like. The landing pages of each tab is shown below with our concepts of trying to achieve these design features.
One aspect that is unique from most social forum platforms is the bloodstream graphic tracker. This format allows people to glance at the graph and understand intuitively what is currently inside their bloodstream. And we wanted to add a quick checker for interactions between drugs as a preview mode.
06. Hi-Fidelity Prototype
Moving on to the final iteration of our prototype, we decided to finally add some color and well contoured screens that fit our design theme and motivation. At first it was difficult choosing a theme to stick with but we decided to use green and some dark colors for people to understand this was supposed to be informative and nice to use rather than something that was too blinding and bright. We ended up adding back the graph features as the other designs giving feedback all said that they liked it and that we should keep it. But when returning the feature, we decided that we should have at least 2 versions of the graph, so we had a separated version and an overlapping version that would also show interactions present.
We found that the line graph for the quick checker was too complex and confusing to use so we decided to remove that instead.
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