HUCKLEBERRY

adding an apple watch interface and "add a caregiver" feature to a MOBILE baby tracking app
PROJECT TYPE
PROOF OF CONCEPT
PRODUCT DESIGNER
MY ROLE
USER RESEARCH
UI DESIGN
INTERACTION DESIGN
PROTOTYPING
USABILITY TESTING
TOOLS
FIGMA
APPLE WATCH SE
DURATION
JUNE-JULY 2023
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CONTENTS

OVERVIEW

BACKGROUND
Huckleberry is a mobile app for baby health, designed to aid parents in monitoring their baby's sleep with support from pediatric sleep consultants. It also allows parents to keep track of diapers, feeding, medicine, growth, and activity. Huckleberry is a tremendous help to many parents - I used it with my first child and plan to use the app again with the upcoming arrival of my baby girl.
PROBLEM AND HYPOTHESIS
I pondered ways to further enhance the app's usefulness. I had a hypothesis that a wearable interface would be a useful addition to the Huckleberry app since busy parents don't always have their phones within reach while caring for their babies.

I also thought the ability to add a caregiver would be beneficial. This functionality would enable parents to maintain visibility into their baby's activities even while they are at work or when the baby is under the care of someone else. By allowing caregivers to log the baby's activities on the same account, parents can stay connected and keep track of their baby's well-being regardless of their physical presence.

Reflect

WHAT I LEARNED
Space is valuable on a wearable device. Crafting the design for the Apple Watch was a challenge at first, due to the necessity of condensing and simplifying information on the screen. This required selecting the most crucial elements from the mobile app, since wearable users want to access the most useful information. There isn't very much real estate on the watch screen, and I realized the importance of not overcrowding the interface with secondary details.

Overall, it was a fun learning process designing an Apple Watch interface, an experience I'd be keen to do again in the future.
IF I HAD MORE TIME
- I would focus on accessibility options by designing a light mode or daytime version of my mobile wireframes.

-I would add another task flow of the caregiver logging a sleep or feeding session. This log would then clearly display which caregiver was responsible for the recorded session.

- I would conduct another round of usability testing and revisions to optimize my design.

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