- *Prototype photos.*Digital photos of the pieces of your prototype. Show the prototype in interesting states; don't just show a blank window. Although you will iterate your paper prototype during this assignment, the photos only need to show one iteration.
- *Briefing.*The briefing you gave to users.
- *Scenario Tasks.*The tasks you gave to users, as you wrote them on the cards.
- Observations.*Usability problems you discovered from the testing. Describe critical incidents encountered by the users, but *don't record users' names. Record these as a series of high-level takeaways, focusing on the usability problems you saw, rather than what each participant did. For instance, you might describe how you had some learnability issues with your prototype, as evidenced by users B and C clicking all of the menus to try to find option X.
- *Prototype iteration.*You did two rounds of paper prototyping. Describe how your prototype changed between those two rounds.
Iteration 1:
Prototype Photos
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When the user logs in, the screen will direct the user to add new medication.
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- what to do if "miss" many drugs (ie did not use app to log several drug-taking events, for example on a weekend trip without wifi or batteries)
- how to clear all
- are there alarm settings
- what about users who do not want to interact every few hours with app
- suggests if press drug button, it selects, and edit/delete buttons show up for selected drug
Iteration 2:
Prototype Iteration
We made changes to our prototype after our first round of testing, mostly to simplify the user interface and clear confusions users have. Here is a list of our changes:
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- "Today", "My Pills" "Add Pills" were condensed into one main page. User can now both edit the drugs (including add and delete) and record actions with the drugs (take it, missed it) on the same page.
- Removed "current date and time" from the time bar since it is obvious. Time is now in the bar that has "contact doctor" and "sign out".
- Clicking on the medicine now leads the user to the info page of the medicine, where user can edit and delete that medicine.
- Recording actions with medicine is now handled with a pop up box when user clicks the check box on the left of the medicine.
- Changed the "add drug" page. Now all three types of drugs are handled by one dynamic page that changes when selecting different options.
- Add AM/PM to drug time "widget".
- In "repeat every several hours" option, now "minutes" only has "00" and "30".
- Clicking the "pencil" icon on main page now leads to "edit drugs" page.
Doctor
No change
Briefing
Patient:
- You are a patient taking several drugs at different times of the day but sometimes you forget about them.. You want to keep track and be reminded to take them correctly by using this mobile app.
Doctor:
- You want to hear immediate feedback from your patients about their medications. The doctor version of Take Your Pills allow you to communicate with your patients and check their medications records.
Scenario Tasks
Patient:
- You want to add Drug A to your medications. You take 2 pills of Drug A everyday at 2PM and 6PM.
- You want to add Drug B to your medications. You take 1 pill of Drug B every 5 hours starting from now.
- You realized that you actually made a mistake about Drug A. You want to remove it from all your medications.
- You are having a headache for no reason. You are not sure if this is related to any medicine that you are taking. You want to contact your doctor.
Doctor:
- Check if there is any new notes from your patients.
- It seems that your patient Eric is having a headache. You want to check his medication history especially that of Drug C for this week.
- You think Eric is having his headache because he missed Drug C. You want to tell him about it.
- You want Eric to start taking Drug E.
User Observations and Feedback
Below are our observations from each user. We also asked each user for feedback after they have completed all the tasks.
User 1
Observations:
- Patient
- Was confused about the "Today" button.
- when asked to add drug that is not time and cycle specific, the patient still choose the cycle option.
- Patient did not know the pensil button represent edit the drug list.
- Doctor
- Was confused about the drug list next to the calendar.
Feedback:
- Suggested to have a PDR system that will check the side effects of all the drugs that user is taking.
- When the user delete drugs, it will send notification to the doctor.
- Can potentially integrate technology of using phone to scan the bar code to enter the medication info
User 2
Observations:
- Patient
- User tried to find the History button on the tab area
- want the edit to be next to the medication button
- Doctor
- Confused about the drug type selection, same problem as in the patient app
Feedback:
- Give doctor "contract indication," which will tell the doctor what medication not to prescribe to the patient when the patient is using other medication
- App can also record the mood and pain level of the patient for doctor's need