UNCOVERING USER NEEDS
Our team were given a brief by the SCHN client as to the type of product they wanted to create for their medical information platform. We took the points of the brief and then conducted a comparative analysis, looking at other websites and apps that had some of the features we wanted to implement into the SCHN website.
We were also given user research insights from the client to help us empathize and understand the wide range of children and families that are patients of their various children's hospitals. These insights helped us develop 6 personas - 3 primary and 3 secondary personas. Throughout this persona development we tried to understand the user's motivations, needs and pain points with the hospital experience.
The 3 primary personas were based around different use cases that we synthesized from the user research. These use cases were "Planned Experienced/Inexperienced," "Unplanned Experienced/Inexperienced" and "Enquiry" cases. The experience refers to the user's level of experience with the hospital system. We used these personas as our guide for making decisions throughout the rest of the project.