By emerging myself in the context of Hospital/Pharmacy I was be able to understand in depth the relationship between a nurse/pharmacist and the refrigerator they use to store medical products for either patients or costumers. In order to determine attitudes towards product features, interaction expectations and usage patterns.
Locations Researched:
Jewish Hospital Health Care Pharmacy Provider, St. Mary's Health Care, Louisville Pharmacy and the Jewish Hospital Pharmacy Rehab Center in Louisville, KY
Research Findings:
Medicine is stored between 35*F and 46*F. Temperature is recorded twice a day since the Joint Commision regulates monitoring. Wired shelving is unuseful and aftermarket solutions are applied
Top User Product Priorities:
Door Alarm, Temperature Alarm, Battery Power, Easy Set Up, Integrated USB Port, Data Storage, Bin-Like Shelving.
Secondary User Product Priorities:
External Temperature Display, External Temperature unit Display and Temperature Bandwidth Settings.
A modular solution would allow the product to be attached onto any refrigerator, giving the end user freedom of placement and refrigerator choice.
Headphone Like Jack Solution:
Allows easy removal of temperature probe from the product. If use needs to replace it or if it gets pulled it wont damage the whole product.
Case design ideation.
Final Design of the UI and its diferent states including: Recording, Temperature out of Spec, Setting Date & Time and alarms for the memory being full and the door being left open.
Final Product Design
