Yesterday I created screenshots for almost the entire app in just a few hours. While this work is a strong outline, today, I started from square one and proceeded at a much slower pace. Starting with the homescreen, I thought out what the main segments of the app should be. I had two options with the home screen- should it present a summary of the patients information or should it be an easy access way for patients to input information? I decided that the goal for the home screen is to create a terminal. A one way intersection that leads to the many branches of the app. After a brief brainstorm, I decided to split the home screen into a category of "My Care," "Hospital/Doc Visits," "How I Feel," "About Me" and an "Other." This orginization would create an intuitive manner to input information on treatments/interventions, resource utilization, quality of life, personal information and access to any additional features we may feel are valuable. The home screen will have have five clickable square icons, one for each section, to access the rest of the app.
| While designing the home screen, I came up with some features we can include. As I was writing up the design for the home screen, I was trying to come up with a way to give the user an easy way to return to this main page. I became interested in the design used in the CNN app used to the left. The "CNN" logo on the top left doubles as a pull down menu. I wanted to have a a "Crohn'sPROMISE" banner on the top of the app and decided that this could double as a scroll down menu with different shortcuts throughout the app. | 
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A final feature I am considering for the home screen is a Quality of Life (QOL) indicator. I do not want to distract from its purpose as a terminal, but I think it would be powerful if the home screen can relate information. At the center of the home screen, the logo for the "About Me" section is a picture of the patient. I will have to think about the best way to do this, but it would be great if we could make the picture change depending on the patients QOL. For example, it can become more blurry when their score is low and more sharp when their score is high. Or the color scale of the picture can change with their QOL score. This feature would immediately enable the patient to track their well-being just by opening the app.
All About Me
The next screen shot I worked on is the result of clicking on the "About Me" section. This section is where a patient can enter their personal information. They can enter the information we want them to input about themselves, their PCP and their specialist. I will need to know what information we want to get regarding their doctors and I have formulated a small list of the information we will probably want from each patient (address, gender, birthday/age, weight, height, date of diagnosis, medications-and can offer an reminder function for medications). I also think their should be a large button for "MY CHARTS" on this page that will lead to any charts, graphs or other informative features we can provide the patients. Maybe we can have a mock version of the patient's report card show up here in an interactive form; so they can click on any part of the report card and link to the section of the app allowing them to edit that specific information. Again, I will need to know what we will be able to provide on the app so I know what screens can proceed from clicking "My Charts."
The Quality of "My Care"
`The last section I worked on today was that of "My Care." I had a little trouble for two reasons:
This is an important page in the app that will create the checklist item at the top of the Patients Report Card. We need to make it easy for patients to find the different interventions that are either in their care plan or that they have experienced. I want to make a pre-compiled list that a patient can scroll through, but I do not want to throw everything together because this would produce too intimidating a list. If we can come up with an intuitive way to break this list into even two categories, I think that would do the trick.
The reason we are asking about their care is because we want to have a checklist at the top of the patient's report card. We need to know what a doctor plans on doing and what they have completed and I want to integrate this information into this screenshot. I also realized that we can add one more criteria. A "yellow -dash-" on the checklist can mark an item that a patient is interested in discussing with their doctor. At the top of the "My Care" screenshot, I put a scroll menu with three options: ""Completed Intervention" (and then a date input will pop up), "Recommended Intervention" and "Want to Discuss". These options will sort the different interventions and orgnize the checklist on the Patient Report Card.
All in all today was a productive day of design. I went much slower and think I found great improvements from the screenshots I created yesterday. I will continue on this path as I finish up the remaining screenshots.
- I do not know all of the potential prevention and interventions that we want to be recorded
- I have not been able to come up with a simple intuitive way to group different care measures
This is an important page in the app that will create the checklist item at the top of the Patients Report Card. We need to make it easy for patients to find the different interventions that are either in their care plan or that they have experienced. I want to make a pre-compiled list that a patient can scroll through, but I do not want to throw everything together because this would produce too intimidating a list. If we can come up with an intuitive way to break this list into even two categories, I think that would do the trick.
The reason we are asking about their care is because we want to have a checklist at the top of the patient's report card. We need to know what a doctor plans on doing and what they have completed and I want to integrate this information into this screenshot. I also realized that we can add one more criteria. A "yellow -dash-" on the checklist can mark an item that a patient is interested in discussing with their doctor. At the top of the "My Care" screenshot, I put a scroll menu with three options: ""Completed Intervention" (and then a date input will pop up), "Recommended Intervention" and "Want to Discuss". These options will sort the different interventions and orgnize the checklist on the Patient Report Card.
All in all today was a productive day of design. I went much slower and think I found great improvements from the screenshots I created yesterday. I will continue on this path as I finish up the remaining screenshots.
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