Dirk-Pierre Bouwer
Design the Unseen
UX/UI Designer based in Pretoria
Co founder of Appserve
About Me
Hi there
My name is Dirk and I look to inspire & engage through innovative and impactful design, creating solutions that not only solve problems but also enhance user experiences and leave a lasting, positive impression. I aim to push the boundaries of creativity and foster a deep connection between form and function in every project, ultimately contributing to a more aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly world.
How I design
My Method
The Double Diamond approach that I've inherited provides a structured framework for me to follow while remaining adaptable and responsive to the unique challenges and requirements of each design project.
UX/UI | Gamification
Button Pusher
Button Pusher is an app that allows Radiographers and Nurses to form a friendship in the workplace. While completing objectives to buying eachother gifts with coins, Button Pusher is definetly an app designed to improve a working environment
App | Accessibility Design
Ceaser's Aid
Ceaser's Aid is an essential app designed to support your post-C-section recovery journey. With a focus on minimizing unnecessary movement. Ceaser's Aid provides invaluable guidance and assistance, ensuring a smoother and more efficient recovery process
UX/UI | Smart | Tech
Patient Sync
Patient Sync is the use of a integrated smart technology system that includes a variety of smart technologies all controlled by a dashboard.
UX/UI | Web Design | Social Media
Friends of free Wildlife
Covering the journey of design in this project. Aiming to redefine and polish the digital representation of Friends of Free Wildlife into something that portrays their organization’s values and goals.
ACCESSIBILITY App
Ceaser's Aid
Ceaser's Aid is an essential app designed to support your post-C-section recovery journey. With a focus on minimizing unnecessary movement. Ceaser's Aid provides invaluable guidance and assistance, ensuring a smoother and more efficient recovery process
Problem Statement
The design challenge involved the creation of a useful mobile application, tailored for “my chosen persona”. Susan is recovering from a Caesarean and needs an apps that helps her recover after this traumatic moment in her life. The application needs to solve the user’s needs by showcasing a way for mothers like Susan to recover from a Caesarean while also looking after her baby.
How might we support Susan in recovering from a cesarean section while ensuring she gets adequate rest?
My Process
Meet Susan
A 24-year-old teacher and single mother who recently underwent a cesarean section. While she's thrilled about her new baby, Susan is struggling to recover from the surgery due to her responsibilities as a mom. Balancing her motherly duties with her own well-being has become quite challenging for her. Susan's situation calls for a solution that can help her recover from the c-section while considering her need for rest and self-care.
The Solution
Caesar's Aid is aimed to provide essential support and guidance for first-time single mothers(like Susan) recovering from a C-section. The app serves as a compassionate companion, offering a range of features and resources tailored to their specific needs. From personalized recovery plans and postpartum care tips to a supportive community and task management tools, Caesar's Aid is dedicated to empowering these mothers on their journey to physical healing, emotional well-being, and confident motherhood. By offering a helping hand and a wealth of knowledge, Caesar's Aid aims to make the recovery process smoother, allowing these strong and resilient mothers to focus on bonding with their newborns and embracing the joy of motherhood.
Sketches
Sketches play a pivotal role in envisioning Caesar's Aid app, offering a visual roadmap for features like personalized recovery plans, postpartum care tips, and community engagement. They streamline the design process, ensuring an intuitive interface that minimizes unnecessary movement, aligning precisely with Susan's post-C-section recovery needs and fostering a supportive environment for confident motherhood.
Product User Challenges
Accessibility and Ease of Use: Designing an interface that is easily navigable and accessible for Susan, considering potential physical limitations during her recovery, is crucial. The app should be user-friendly to accommodate her need to manage tasks and monitor her baby effortlessly.physical limitations during her recovery, is crucial. The app should be user-friendly to accommodate her need to manage tasks and monitor her baby effortlessly.
Integration of Monitoring Devices: Ensuring seamless integration of monitoring devices, such as the Owlet sock and baby monitor, with the app presents a challenge. The designer must create a cohesive and intuitive system that allows Susan to track her baby's well-being without complicating the user experience.
Personalization and Flexibility: Designing a platform that offers personalized recovery plans and adapts to Susan's evolving needs is essential. The app should provide flexibility in adjusting tasks, exercises, and alerts based on her recovery progress, energy levels, and the demands of caring for her newborn.
Emotional Support and Community Engagement: Creating features that provide emotional support and foster community engagement poses a challenge. The designer must implement tools that connect Susan with a supportive community and offer resources to address her emotional well-being, fostering a sense of belonging and encouragement during this transformative period.
Features & Functionalities
To resolve user needs
Accessibility Guidelines
Accessibility guidelines are essential for inclusive design, ensuring digital content is accessible to everyone, meeting legal requirements, and fostering a positive user experience. Adherence reflects ethical responsibility, expands market reach, encourages innovation, and future-proofs designs, supporting diverse users and promoting equal access to information and services.
Visual Designs
Interactive Prototype
Conclusion
In conclusion, I achieved my "how might we" statement for Caesar's Aid by actively involving Susan, a first-time single mother recovering from a C-section, and incorporating valuable user feedback. Through collaborative design, extensive research, and Accessibility Checking, I developed an app that caters to the specific needs of mothers like Susan. Caesar's Aid offers personalized calendar, postpartum care tips through a community, and practical tools, empowering these women on their journey to confident motherhood. By putting Susan and other users at the center of the design process, I created a user-centered solution that provides essential support and guidance for first-time single mothers recovering from a C-section.
Smart system
Patient Sync
Patient Sync is the use of a integrated smart technology system that includes a variety of smart technologies all controlled by a dashboard.
The Challenge
The challenge was to design an integrated smart technology system to keep patients entertained while also fastening Susans work as a secretary.
Meet Susan
Space Overview
Gaining a deeper understanding of the space and where the smart system would be implemented by creating a floor plan that illustrates the layout and a potential user flow for the smart technologies is highlighted in the next section.
User Journey Storyboard
After attaining a comprehensive understanding of the space, the intended user, and the specific problem to address, Crafting a storyboard to depict how the space would be utilised to illustrate the user's interactions within it.
Final Solution
Once I had a clear understanding of the system's usage and the integrated smart technologies, I proceeded to design the dashboard that would serve as the central control interface for all smart features. Subsequently, I developed a demonstration walkthrough of the space.
Walkthrough Video
Conclusion
This project was incredibly enjoyable, and I firmly believe that the smart system has the potential to significantly enhance the efficiency of any hairdresser's workspace.
I particularly found satisfaction in crafting the dashboard designs. Additionally, I aspire to enhance the video walkthrough demo in the future, aiming to incorporate 3D renders.
Website Design
Friends of Free Wildlife
Covering the journey of design in this project. Aiming to redefine and polish the digital representation of Friends of Free Wildlife into something that portrays their organization’s values and goals.
Friends of Free Wildlife is a community-based, public-funded volunteer organisation. It was founded in May 2016 by passionate and qualified wildlife rehabilitators with the best interest of our urban wildlife as a founding mandate.They invest all their focus and passion into nursing and helping urban wildlife native to South Africa thrive and recover from otherwise life threatening injuries/events.
Interactive Prototype
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