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DailyDose
A Medication Management App
Role
Timeline
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Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
UI/UX Designer
Product design, User Research, Wireframing, Prototyping, Usability Testing, End-to-End Design Process
DailyDose
DailyDose is a medication management app designed as part of my UX Design Certificate program. It focuses on helping adults who juggle demanding schedules—balancing work, family, and personal commitments—stay consistent with their medication routines.
The goal of the app is to simplify how users track, log, and manage their medications, reducing the risk of missed or incorrect doses.
Problem Statement
Many Adults with demanding schedules often struggle to manage their medications consistently. Between work, family, and daily distractions, doses are missed or taken incorrectly—leading to health risks and added stress. What’s needed is a simple, intuitive solution that fits seamlessly into daily routines and helps users stay on top of their health without adding to their mental load.
Understanding Users
To understand how busy adults manage their medications, I conducted contextual interviews with three individuals: a software engineer, a high school teacher, and a marketing professional. Despite their varied routines, several common pain points emerged:
Dismissed or Overlooked Reminders
Routine Disruptions Lead to Missed Doses
Standard notifications often went unnoticed during hectic mornings or workdays.
Early meetings, family duties, and long work hours frequently broke medication habits.
Emotional & Physical Impact:
Desire for Smarter Reminders:
Missing a dose triggered symptoms like dizziness, anxiety, or loss of focus—affecting daily performance.
Users wanted reminders that integrated into calendars or daily spaces, with options to snooze or share.
After conducting the interviews, I organized key observations into an affinity map, grouping user behaviors, frustrations, and goals into thematic clusters. This helped uncover shared pain points such as inconsistent reminder effectiveness, reliance on memory, and the emotional stress of missed doses.
Using these insights, I crafted a user persona to represent the core user group: busy professionals juggling work and personal responsibilities who need non-intrusive, intelligent support to stay on track with their medications.
Goals
Life Goal: Maintain health while balancing work and family.
End Goal: Stick to his medication schedule without stress.
Experience Goal: Use a system that integrates into his routine without being disruptive.
Behaviors
Wakes up at 6:30 AM, manages kids’ morning routine, then starts work at 9:00 AM. Works until 7:00 PM, then unwinds with family.
Uses phone reminders, but often dismisses them or forgets due to distractions.
Has tried pill organizers and sticky notes but finds them inconsistent.
“I just need a reminder that actually sticks—something I won’t ignore.”
Pain Points
John
Misses doses due to rushed mornings
Feels guilty when he forgets—especially when it affects his health or productivity.
Existing tools feel disconnected from how he actually navigates his day.
Occupation: Software Engineer
Age: 35
Location: California
Family: 2 young kids
This synthesis phase clarified design opportunities and ensured that the next steps were grounded in real user needs.
Design Process
I mapped the core user flow around three key tasks: viewing medications, adding a new medication, and sharing schedules with others. The goal was to create a seamless experience that minimized friction and supported adherence.
Based on this flow, I sketched low-fidelity wireframes and built a paper prototype to explore layout, interaction patterns, and content hierarchy. Key priorities included:
A clean, scannable home screen showing active medications.
A guided add-medication flow with clear input steps and confirmation.
A sharing feature for caregivers/family to monitor or receive reminders.
Simple notification and account settings to customize the experience.
The paper prototype enabled early feedback and quick iteration. I then translated these insights into mid-fidelity wireframes in Figma to refine navigation, hierarchy, and UI components.
Once the layout and flow were finalized, I designed high-fidelity prototypes in Figma to visualize the user experience end-to-end. I also incorporated insights from market research and competitor analysis to align the interface with industry standards and user expectations.
These prototypes were used for stakeholder reviews and usability testing, helping validate both interaction and visual direction.
The Outcome
Future Design Opportunities
The iterative design process—from paper prototype to mid-fidelity wireframes—resulted in a clear, intuitive interface that supports busy adults in managing their medications with ease. Users can quickly view their current medications, add new ones through a guided flow, and share their schedules with caregivers for added accountability.
While Daily Dose currently focuses on helping users manage medications through a clean, calendar-integrated mobile experience, several additional ideas emerged from user research that offer exciting future directions for the app
These concepts aim to extend the functionality of Daily Dose beyond the phone and further integrate it into users' daily lives:
Smart home displays (clocks, mirrors, kitchen hubs): Planned integrations to deliver non-intrusive, contextual reminders during high-traffic daily moments.
Wearables & keychain reminders: Portable solutions to ensure medication adherence while on the move.
Digital Pill Dispenser Integration: The app can connect to a smart pill dispenser to automate dose reminders, track intake in real time, and alert users or caregivers when doses are missed.
These ideas reflect an ongoing commitment to evolving Daily Dose into a holistic, accessible, and intelligent health companion for busy individuals.
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