Overview
During my Masters' at Pitt, I had the opportunity to do an internship in the University, where I worked for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). I worked as a Student Software Designer and was able to work on a research project under their mentorship. I chose to work with Biobank since I loved the idea of getting to work with researchers and patients for a Cancer related study and getting the chance to learn more about designing UI interfaces.
I was on a team with 2 other students and we worked with the Professors, Researchers and Patients. The goal of this project was to design a software prototype of the NFT-based framework to help patients track and learn about any of their biological specimens that were collected and stored for research.
Tools
I used Adalo to create the wireframes and prototype for the mobile screens.
Timeline
June to August 2022 (2 months)
Description
At the end of the project, my team had accomplished building a working mobile app and is also released on Google Play. My major role in this project was mainly designing wireframes and i was responsible for creating the initial front end design screens for patient experience. Further, my other team member used these wireframes to develop them into the Final app and my other team mate worked on backend NFT implementation to represent biosamples with new NFTs.
During the design process, I also had to constantly interact with patients in the form of interviews and surveys in order to gain feedback on the app design. Their feedbacks were very valuable since patients were a crucial part of the entire user journey and this is a user-centric design. Based on the patient reviews, I had to further refine the front-end screens. I was expected to use a no-code platform such as Adalo to create these wireframes for the data from BIOS(patient data). At the moment, we can enable just current/former patients at UPMC to track their biosamples, but anyone can sign up to request the service.
More details and deliverables are available in the embedded pdf doc and the link to Figma above respectively.
Next Steps
- To enable more patients outside the UPMC network to track their biosamples.
- Over time, we hope to allow anyone who has donated their samples for research to be able to find their samples that are “banked” at any institution – wherever they received medical care.