Adonis

Overview

Adonis enables opportunities for users to identify and take action on the physical side-effects that can attribute themselves to a lack of morale, poor self-image, or absence of normality with regards to one’s appearance.

Chemotherapy treatment has a large negative impact on its user's body, with up to 75% of patients feeling embarrassed at some point during their treatment process. Our goal is to solve one of the most common problems that these patients deal with: their own self-confidence.

Early on, we identified that finding resources for coping with chemotherapy side-effects were most sought out from physicians, leaving the direct voices of other treatment recipients out of the equation. This is where Adonis, pulling resources from a community together, shines the brightest.

Process

To better address the needs of the users, we were able to form a joint initiative between nursing students at the University of Washington and ourselves. This helped lead us to our persona Erin Leigh, and in turn informed our focus within our concept map.

The designs were first sketched, refined into wireframes individually before critique, then finally digitally designed collaboratively. In this time, we would have regular check-ins with the students and their professor, after asking them to provide their own feedback and perform specific ethnographic research beyond our capabilities.