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Zume Life Health Management Service

Jun 4, 2008

Zume Life Device Interaction

DDO worked with Zume Life to create interaction design prototypes for a personal mobile health management service. The service integrates hardware and software to improve the relationship between individuals and health professionals.

The Zume Life service consists of two primary components. A mobile device, “Zuri,” provides reminders that allow people to track all health-related activities. A web portal uses the information collected by Zuri to provide rich data analysis, personalized health information, and strengthen a supportive social network. It enables users, family caregivers, and professional providers to continuously review health patterns and respond with changes to improve health.

Our service design work for Zume Life included interaction design for the Zuri, web-based application design for managing patients, a branding and identity system, and a quick start guide.

Zume Web Portal

Zume Life iPhone

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4 Comments

  • LindsayB

    Feb 14, 2009
    7:18 pm

    My suggestion, in the form of a question:

    Why is 25% of the screen real estate on the device taken up by the name, date and time? Surely this is a legacy of cell phone screen thinking.

    If needed, place the information flowing along the y-axis on either side of the main information.

  • John Palaima

    Mar 4, 2009
    4:48 pm

    The problem is its intended purpose, the date and time is an important part of the user environment.. the device is a clock based reminder / relies on timestamped records…

    The username is sheer convienece esp if theres an environment with multiple units in use… ie.. doctors office or other setting..

    truth be told id love to see a mode which displaces the clock in large numbers, even if they are pseudo-font based… (ie using keyboard characters for graphics)…

    (Speaking from experience with prototype I wanted to reply to Lindsey’s suggestion)

  • See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

    Sep 12, 2009
    10:07 pm

    Hugh–

    This project has some interesting overlap with what Juhan Sonin is working on.

    Juhan is a friend whom I met virtually first on LibraryThing, then on Flickr and Twitter. He is an interaction designer + programmer currently working at MITRE.

    He has been working on a series of projects and prototypes for health systems. I thought that you might find them interesting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juhansonin/sets/72157610925772960/

    I’d be happy to send an intro if you don’t know each other already :)

    Cheers, See-ming

  • Juhan Sonin

    Nov 21, 2009
    10:42 pm

    Any updates on the project? Going to the cell top vs custom hardware (which is always fun)?

    -Juhan

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