MyoCircle: Designing Connected Care Experiences
MyoCircle: Designing Connected Care Experiences
Crafting a unified system streamlining patient progress and clinician decisions for physical therapy exercise tracking, using user-friendly gamification and collaborative syncing to keep care moving.
Crafting a unified system streamlining patient progress and clinician decisions for physical therapy exercise tracking, using user-friendly gamification and collaborative syncing to keep care moving.
Role
Product + UI/UX Designer
Role
Product + UI/UX Designer
Duration
4 months
Duration
4 months
Platform
Mobile Design
Platform
Mobile Design
Industry
Healthcare
Industry
Healthcare
Gamification
Gamification
Visual Engagement
Visual Engagement
Design Psychology
Design Psychology
Overview
Overview
Myocircle is a youth-centric healthcare platform designed to simplify appointment scheduling, medication tracking, and physical activity management.
Myocircle is a youth-centric healthcare platform designed to simplify appointment scheduling, medication tracking, and physical activity management.
My Role
My Role
With full creative ownership of end-to-end visual design, I worked with 1 Product Manager and Software Engineers to conceptualize this product 0→1, designing intuitive user flows, gamified routines, and visual storytelling elements supporting interaction between doctors and patients, enabling children as young as 10 to independently manage their care through engaging, human-centered design.
With full creative ownership of end-to-end visual design, I worked with 1 Product Manager and Software Engineers to conceptualize this product 0→1, designing intuitive user flows, gamified routines, and visual storytelling elements supporting interaction between doctors and patients, enabling children as young as 10 to independently manage their care through engaging, human-centered design.
Problem Statement
Problem Statement
How can a technology-based solution enable users to independently manage their healthcare routines, making it an intuitive, engaging, and age-appropriate experience for younger patients?
How can a technology-based solution enable users to independently manage their healthcare routines, making it an intuitive, engaging, and age-appropriate experience for younger patients?
Challenges
Challenges
We operated under tight timelines and a multi-platform scope, making cross-functional team alignment challenging. To accelerate decisions, we ran weekly structured design reviews with a shared decision log for heuristic passes, accessibility checks, and clinician sign-offs, resulting in a 60% conversion.
We operated under tight timelines and a multi-platform scope, making cross-functional team alignment challenging. To accelerate decisions, we ran weekly structured design reviews with a shared decision log for heuristic passes, accessibility checks, and clinician sign-offs, resulting in a 60% conversion.
Designing Myocircle
Designing Myocircle
With the user group defined and research insights in place, the Empathize and Define stages had set a clear foundation. We transitioned into the Ideation phase, translating user needs into initial sketches, low-fidelity wireframes, and interaction concepts that balanced simplicity, playfulness, and usability.
With the user group defined and research insights in place, the Empathize and Define stages had set a clear foundation. We transitioned into the Ideation phase, translating user needs into initial sketches, low-fidelity wireframes, and interaction concepts that balanced simplicity, playfulness, and usability.
Design Principles that Shaped the Experience
Design Principles that Shaped the Experience
Designing for the Patient
Designing for the Patient
Future Steps
Future Steps
What next steps look like: we observe what resonates; and we keep only what sticks. It is crucial to smooth the rough edges on the Patient path while the Clinician experience comes to life - starting with the most critical jobs and handoffs. The aim is for a coordinated pilotable release where progress, feedback, and guidance move seamlessly across roles - boosting adherence and shortening time-to-support - while the Clinician track, already scoped and partially explored (not shown here), matures into a production-ready module.
What next steps look like: we observe what resonates; and we keep only what sticks. It is crucial to smooth the rough edges on the Patient path while the Clinician experience comes to life - starting with the most critical jobs and handoffs. The aim is for a coordinated pilotable release where progress, feedback, and guidance move seamlessly across roles - boosting adherence and shortening time-to-support - while the Clinician track, already scoped and partially explored (not shown here), matures into a production-ready module.
What I Took Away
What I Took Away
🧩🩺 Designing for Dual Roles (Patient & Clinician)
Modeling shared objects/states before role-specific flows clarified permissions, reduced rework, and made handoffs predictable across surfaces.
🧩🩺 Designing for Dual Roles (Patient & Clinician)
Modeling shared objects/states before role-specific flows clarified permissions, reduced rework, and made handoffs predictable across surfaces.
🧪 Designing for a Niche
Designing for a new pediatric niche meant letting the rules lead. I treated the guideline stack as a bluprint for iterations, testing with quick feedback loops. These 'constraints' helped speed decisions and make the overall user experience clear, compliant and effoconsistent.
🧪 Designing for a Niche
Designing for a new pediatric niche meant letting the rules lead. I treated the guideline stack as a bluprint for iterations, testing with quick feedback loops. These 'constraints' helped speed decisions and make the overall user experience clear, compliant and effoconsistent.
🧱 Design System First Approach
Tokens (type, color, spacing), reusable components, and usage notes (kid vs clinician context) sped up iteration and kept UX consistent.
🧱 Design System First Approach
Tokens (type, color, spacing), reusable components, and usage notes (kid vs clinician context) sped up iteration and kept UX consistent.
Copyright © Eshani Somwanshi 2026
Copyright © Eshani Somwanshi 2026
Copyright © Eshani Somwanshi 2026