Hi! Beats
Hi! Beats is a smart monitoring system, provides systematic design across devices to empower older adults with Atrial Fibrillations.
My Role | User Research, Prototyping, UI Design, User Testing, UX Design, Visual Design
Teammates | Individual projects
Timeline | June-Aug 2021 10 Weeks
Type | Project in the experience class
Tools | Figma, Photoshop, Miro, Mural
WHAT'S THE CONTEXT？
Hi! Beats is a project focus on experience design and a smart monitoring system. The target users are senior people with Atrial Fibrillations. Inconvenient sharing, low accuracy, and time-consuming monitoring process are important pains for these people.
Facing these problems, I present Hi! Beats, a smart monitoring system, provides systematic design across devices to empower older adults with Atrial Fibrillations.
THE CHALLENGE
DESIGN APPROACH
The overall process including 4 parts: research, ideation, design, test, and iteration
DESIGN PROMPT
Let’s have a look, what is AFib? it is an irregular and often rapid heart rate that occurs when the two upper chambers of your heart experience chaotic electrical signals. The result is a fast and irregular heart rhythm. And two of my family members suffer AFibs occasionally and frequently.
RESEARCH
During the Secondary Research, I found that over 12 million people in the U.S. will have AFib in 2030, and AFib was mentioned on death certificates lots of times in the last few years, what’s more, AFib increased the risk of stroke 4 to 5 times. So the design for AFIbs benefits not only my family members but also more potential users.
PERSONA
Also, I start user research with 5 users Interviews and followed 2 users to observe their behaviors to know detailed tasks, problems, and motivations.
Albert Lee had AFibs for 2 years. He wants to monitor his heart’s health and AFibs by himself, and receive signals when he has or communicates with his doctor. It takes him a long time to rent a Holter every time he went to the hospital, and the data detected may not be exactly when he was having AFibs.
The Journey is like he has to spend 60 mins to visit the hospital and rent a holter for testing in the next 24 hours, then he has to go back to the hospital and sent back the holter and get report analysis in another 60 mins.
EXPERIENCE WAIVE LINE
If we watch the Journey in a larger scope, for both Frequently and Occasionally Afibs has five stages, Discover, Diagnosis, Research, Procedure, and Aftercare. Obviously, there are two bottoms during the whole journey, Diagnosis, and aftercare, because it is difficult to monitor the heart by themselves, hard to share the report, waste a long time renting the machine, and a long detection time but low accuracy.
MAIN TAKEAWAYS
Inconvenient sharing, low accuracy, and time-consuming monitoring process are key pains
OPPORTUNITY
How Might We...
Enable older adults with Atrial Fibrillation to monitoring heart conditions and easily share with the network?
SOLUTION
I build a system that including a heart monitor system, community care network, and self care system.
SYSTEMATIC DESIGN ACROSS DEVICES
The user provides body data to iwatch, which can be transmitted to the mobile phone and the cloud for analysis, and iwatch provides early warning signals to the user. At the same time, through the use of smart devices, users can share reports and warning signals with doctors or family members with one click
QUICK DESIGN & PROTOTYPE
With the ideation of the system, I created some key screens and started the first round of user test
FEEDBACK FROM POTENTIAL USERS
The feedback from the potential users helps me narrow down the scope.
MAIN USER TASKS
The main user tasks I keep iteration are call for help and make appointments, and check to monitor reports. Based on the main tasks, I created some task flow and wireframes
WIREFRAMES
The first user task is to call for help and make appointments which are mostly based on apple watch.
Apple Watch will monitor and provide early warning signals to the user, like attention when ur ECG is abnormal, warning when your ECG is emergency, and great when your ECG is positive, depending on the data collection.
PROVIDE SIGNALS
The first user task is to call for help and make appointments which are mostly based on apple watch.
Apple Watch will monitor and provide early warning signals to the user, like attention when ur ECG is abnormal, warning when your ECG is emergency, and great when your ECG is positive, depending on the data collection.
CALL FOR HELP
The first user task is to call for help and make appointments which are mostly based on apple watch.
MAKE APPOINTMENT
The first user task is to call for help and make appointments which are mostly based on apple watch.
CHECK MONITOR REPORTS
