User persona
Daily care user
- Needs
- See daily priorities and choose an achievable next step.
- Possible friction
- Competing information and uncertainty about whether a goal was saved.
Personalized medicine, from daily care to genomic research.
WeCare imagines health care shaped around each person: a mobile app helps people keep up with daily health routines, and desktop software helps specialists investigate genomic and biological data.
Overview
WeCare is my graduation project from Emily Carr University, a speculative personalized-medicine platform that pairs preventive care with genomic insight. It has two products under one identity. A mobile app helps people review daily activities, track health metrics, and set goals. Desktop software helps specialists prepare data files, inspect genome sequences, and compare biological models across scales. WeCare received the 2023 ECU Health Design Award for Service and was shown at The Show exhibition.
What I did
- Research
- Mapped the app’s audience with a persona, empathy map, and journey, and the software’s specialists with an analyst journey.
- Structure & flows
- Structured the app around home, goals, and profile, and mapped how saving a goal leads back to daily progress.
- App interface
- Designed the wireframes and screens for daily activities, health metrics, sleep, medication, and goals.
- App interactions
- Designed goal setting in three steps: choosing an activity, defining a target, and setting a schedule.
- Desktop software
- Designed the analysis workspace: a file explorer with visual scripting, a genome viewer, and linked views from the body down to molecules.
- Design system
- Built one visual identity with two component sets: goal and progress controls for the app, and file, sequence, and analysis controls for the software.
App research
A proposed persona, empathy map, and journey explore how people review daily priorities and set manageable goals.
Empathy map
- Says
- What matters today?
- Thinks
- Is this target realistic?
- Does
- Reviews progress and sets goals.
- Feels
- Unsure of the next step.
App journey
HypothesisSetting a health goal can stall on competing information, an undefined goal, too many decisions, or not knowing whether the goal saved.
Orient
Question
What matters today?
Potential barrier
Competing information
Design response
Daily activities first
Choose
Question
Where do I begin?
Potential barrier
An undefined goal
Design response
Clear goal categories
Configure
Question
What fits my routine?
Potential barrier
Too many decisions
Design response
Related details grouped together
Follow through
Question
What happens next?
Potential barrier
Unclear whether the goal saved
Design response
Visible save confirmation
App structure & flows
App destinations and a proposed goal-setting flow connect daily progress with a clear next action.
Sitemap
Home, Goals, and Profile separate daily tasks, progress, and personal care information.
WeCare app
Home
- Activities
- Metrics
- Highlights
Goals
- Progress
- Create a goal
Profile
- Records
- Care team
- Privacy
Save confirmation
The proposed flow confirms a saved goal or returns to incomplete fields for correction.
Start or endScreen or actionDecisionProposed path
Select a route to follow a goal with complete details or one with missing details.
App interface
Daily check-ins open with the activities that need attention, the metrics that changed recently, and the goals that turn intentions into a plan.
Wireframes
ReconstructedThe app leads from today’s priorities and goal progress to choosing a goal category and entering its details.
Health metrics
Heart rate & activityCurrent readings and history offer two views of heart rate and physical activity.
Heart rateCurrent reading and history
Physical activityDaily activity and history
Care details
Sleep, medication, and profile screens organize different types of care information.
App interactions
In the mobile app, setting a health goal moves from choosing an activity to defining a target and schedule.
TASK FLOWReview progress→Choose walking→Set target & time→Save
01 / START
Choose an activity
Start from current progress, then choose a goal category.
02 / DEFINE
Define a target
Review the chosen activity and consult guidance before setting its details.
03 / COMMIT
Set a schedule
Set the timing and target, then return to daily activities.
Solid paths are reconstructed from the screens. Dashed paths propose confirmation and recovery.
Desktop software
Specialists prepare data files, inspect biological sequences, and compare linked models across scales.
Analyst journey
HypothesisAn analysis specialist moves from preparing files to inspecting sequences and comparing linked views, where context is easy to lose between selections, views, and scales.
Prepare
Question
Which files do I need?
Potential barrier
Files and workflow steps feel disconnected
Design response
Files beside the workflow canvas
Inspect
Question
Which detail needs attention?
Potential barrier
A selection loses its wider context
Design response
Sequence overview with selection details
Connect
Question
How are these findings related?
Potential barrier
Relationships are split across views
Design response
Linked pathways, networks, and details
Examine
Question
What changes at another scale?
Potential barrier
Context is lost between scales
Design response
Molecular and body views together
This journey is inferred from the desktop mockups. The barriers are hypotheses, not findings from user testing.
Workspace wireframes
ReconstructedFiles, sequences, and linked views each hold their own place in the workspace.
File explorer
File management and visual scripting provide two ways to prepare an analysis.
Genome viewer
Sequence context stays in view while one selection is inspected in detail.
Analysis context
Body and pathway views present information at different biological scales.
Evidence comparison
Network, molecular, and multi-scale views give specialists different perspectives on one analysis.
Workspace structurePrepare: files and visual scriptingInvestigate: genome and predispositionExamine: pathways and drug analysis
These screens explore an analyst workflow. Scientific validation has not been tested.
Design system
A shared visual identity supports two component sets: progress and goal controls for the app, and file, sequence, and analysis controls for the software.
Color palette
Mobile#35AAE0
Software#005FB8
MedicationActivitySleep
Typography
800 stepsKey value
Today’s ActivitiesHeading
Take 1,000 stepsBody
Components
Mobile
Activity card
Physical activity›
Take 1,000 steps
Steps800Distance1.2 miExercise10 min
Goal input
1,000Steps ⌄
Primary action
Time selection
DWM6MY
Software
Workflow nodes
INPUTDefault
→ALIGNMENTSelected
Document tabs
File explorerWorkflow ×
Primary action
Progress feedback
Importing file…
Colors are sampled from the screens. Components are reconstructed, and the type scale is proposed.
