Before kickstarting the Meducal project, I set three goals to achieve, namely:
- Help healthcare professionals navigate easily on the shared medical cases resource banks;
- Provide features that are supportive and friendly for medical students and students who are interested in medicine;
- Keep the overall interfaces as simple as possible since I am targeting busy and heavily-burdened healthcare professionals who won’t bother wasting time navigating.
I continued on polishing the interface and interaction design of Meducal v1.0, mainly on three features. The Meducal v2.0 prototypes are here, feel free to click and give me a shout if you see anything interesting.
Iteration NO.1: Cases Template
Different from a general post on Facebook, a medical case uploaded from healthcare professionals often has a pattern, with explicit information of the gender, age, symptoms and questions. Also I noticed when users are discussing about cases on Figure1, they tend to ask where the patient or the case is located. Location is an implicit information.
Thus I designed a form of case template for Meducal users to fill out before the uploading a case, which could ease their editing experience. Also, by introducing this case template, the cases tend to be more unified in terms of the format, which can increase the readibility of a case.
At the end of each form, users are able to type in the specialties that the cases fall under, and can choose whether he/she should page a specialist.
For users’ convenience and overall interface consistence, the “add” button which will lead to this case template will always be present on the top-right corner of Cases, Paging, and Learn as is shown below.
Iteration NO.2: Flip Cases & Translate
At the v1.0 of Meducal Interface Design, the cases cards view are static. Now, incorporated with Marvel, users are able to flip between different cases.
Meanwhile, due to the fact that there may be cases in different languages, I designed a translate feature for all the Meducal users to understand even the case was not written in their mother tongue. Ideally, with this features, people can discuss cases without too many language barriers.
Iteration NO.3: Change Quiz Tab to “Learn”
I noticed the Quiz tab may not that cater to the interests of more experienced healthcare professionals. Thus, I renamed Quiz with “Learn”. Meanwhile, I introduced a great initiative named 1on 1 from Figure 1, which is now hidden deep inside the app as an account.
Instead of letting 1on1 be an official account, I decided to transform it into a feature to draw more attention from users. The feature 1on1 will invite experienced healthcare professionals who are famous opinion leaders in the healthcare industry or ones with a legendary background. Meducal users can ask these professionals questions, and they will choose a certain time to reply to those good questions.
Stay Tuned
If you are also a MedEd fan, feel free to comment on my immature project. And more articles about Meducal are on our Meducal Landing Page, check them out if you’re interested!
