Dirk-Pierre Bouwer

Design the Unseen

UX/UI Designer based in Pretoria

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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.

Problem Statement

The challenge for this project was to address the lack of camaraderie and positive interactions among Radiographers and Nurses within the workplace. The current environment lacks a platform for fostering connections and collaboration between these essential healthcare professionals. By introducing an engaging app where they can complete objectives, earn coins, and exchange thoughtful gifts, Button Pusher seeks to enhance the overall working atmosphere, promoting a sense of community, teamwork, and improved relationships among colleagues in the healthcare setting.

How can I produce a positive work environment to ensure the best patient care possible?

Main Problems

Gamification Breakdown

Gamification in the Button Pusher app introduces a rewards-based system, turning workplace interactions into a game. By completing objectives and earning coins to exchange for gifts, radiographers and nurses are incentivized to engage and build friendships. This gamified approach adds fun and motivation, addressing the initial problem of a lack of camaraderie and fostering a positive work environment.

Sketches

Sketches play a crucial role in solving the problem outlined by Button Pusher. Initially, sketching allows designers to visualize the app's interface, ensuring user-friendly interactions. It aids in mapping out the gamification elements, depicting the coin-earning process and gift exchange features. Iterative sketching allows for quick concept refinement, ensuring that the final design is intuitive and aligns with the goal of fostering friendships among radiographers and nurses. Additionally, sketches serve as a valuable communication tool between designers and stakeholders, facilitating a shared understanding of the app's structure and functionality.

Major screens

Visual Designs

Interactive Prototype

Conclusion

The Button Pusher project endeavors to revolutionize workplace dynamics for radiographers and nurses by infusing a sense of camaraderie through gamification. Through the pursuit of objectives, earning coins, and exchanging thoughtful gifts, the app transforms the workplace into a collaborative and engaging space, ultimately contributing to a positive and uplifting professional environment.

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

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.

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.

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Interactive Prototype