Handy
is a personalized pain companion app tailored for individuals affected by repetitive strain injury (RSI) in their hands from prolonged device use. This essential tool allows users to track and visualize their pain, making it easier to comprehend and communicate with healthcare professionals.
My RoleProduct Designer
TypeMaster’s Thesis Project
Sep 23 - Apr 23
TimelineAgile Design Process
User Interviews
Moderated User Testing
MethodtsToolsFigma
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe After Effects
Challenge
How can we empower young individuals to properly care for their hands to prevent chronic injuries from prolonged device use?
Visualizeing Pain
Keeping a picture pain diary so users can paint on the pain area to record the specific areas and types of pain they experience.
Pain shapes
This visual representation of Pain Feelings helps users to correlate symptoms with actual pain experiences.
Identify Triggers and Emotional Impact:
Answer questions to identify activities causing flare-ups, determine daily pain-related activities and track the user's emotions to understand how pain impacts their well-being.
Empowered Communication
Journey Feature highlights symptom frequency, uses AI for injury depiction, encourages contacting a medical professional if symptoms persist, and fosters connection with support groups through the emotion page. Final reports can be shared with medical professionals before appointments to facilitate communication about the pain or condition.
Making a Pain language
Pain literacy is understanding and recognizing the pain one feels.
A clear understanding of one’s pain is the key to a better diagnosis, describing what we are feeling can be hard at times. It is important as different kinds of pain lead to different diagnoses.
Awareness is essential
My focus was not just to create a product that tracks pain but also to educate users about the risks of RSI and its impact on the hands.
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A poster campaign for Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) in hands
Encouraging Prevention of RSI in the hands
A poster on RSI prevention is to be placed in the coffee break room or a high-traffic work cafe as a valuable resource emphasizing hand health through four exercises to strengthen fingers, wrists, and thumbs, promoting their inclusion in daily routines. The regimen stresses regular breaks during work hours to ease muscle tension, improve circulation, and prevent fatigue.
Sharing it with the community and my co-creators
Computer Usage in the Workplace
2/3 of American adults use a computer at work and 80% consider it essential for job performance
Wrist or Hand Pain (WP)
19.1% of adults are affected by Hand and wrist pain and it is the 3rd most common work-related injury
