Company Context

One Drop was a T2 diabetes management company selling a finger prick meter and accompanying coaching app

My Role

VP Product Design

Time Period

Oct 2021 - Nov 2023

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One Drop To One Health - A Flexible Health Platform

I was recruited by One Drop to work on the UI/UX strategy for the new Biosensor hardware they were developing.

The Biosensor promised to offer a more cost effective platform, tailored to T2 diabetes capable of sensing multiple data types and, in the future, serving various health conditions.

This required One Drop to pivot their communication and product strategy to leverage the new hardware.

The Context of Type 2 Diabetes

The Context of Type 2 Diabetes

The T2 Data Problem

95% T2 Patients Don’t have access to Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs)

Why?:

↳ CGMs are designed for T1 and aren’t perfect for T2 use cases

↳ CGMs are too expensive and not covered by payers.

Throw every 14 Days

Battery

Transmitter

Sensor

The Biosensor Solution

Bringing Continuous Data To T2

Why?

↳ Access to continuous data is proven to speed up and improve health outcomes in T2 patients.


How?

↳ Lower costs through re-usable battery and transmitter units.

↳ Flexible wear times can better adapt to T2 needs.

Infinite Life

Battery

Transmitter

Switch Every 24H

Sensor

Project Goals

1

Live Data UI UX

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Design Biosensor live data streaming and hardware management (charge levels, replacement, etc.)

2

Future Proofing The Brand

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Pivot the branding and messaging to accommodate the new hardware and product strategy.

3

Scalable Product Strategy

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Inform the product strategy for the broader digital platform so it scales as we leverage the biosensor data.

Live Data UI UX

Live Data UI UX

Scope And Constraints

The new Biosensor was required to have its own app separate from the main One Drop app. This was because the FDA considers the app itself as part of the medical device sold alongside the hardware.

My Contributions

UI UX Design

Product Rendering and Animation

Video Story Board And Shooting For App And HardwareTutorials

Scope And Constraints

The new Biosensor was required to have its own app separate from the main One Drop app. This was because the FDA considers the app itself as part of the medical device sold alongside the hardware.

My Contributions

UI UX Design

Product Rendering and Animation

Video Story Board And Shooting For App And HardwareTutorials

Scope And Constraints

The new Biosensor was required to have its own app separate from the main One Drop app. This was because the FDA considers the app itself as part of the medical device sold alongside the hardware.

My Contributions

UI UX Design

Product Rendering and Animation

Video Story Board And Shooting For App And HardwareTutorials

Sensor Connection And Battery Management

App and Sensor Application Tutorials

Live Glucose And Trend 3 Hour Data Graph Customizable Alerts

Scrubbable Historical Data Screens

Flexible Data Card System To Accommodate Future Data Types

Future Proofing The Brand

Future Proofing The Brand

Scope And Constraints

One Drop’s name was based on their current hardware. With the Biosensor promising to broaden the horizons of the company, it needed a name which would not limit it to any one piece of hardware or health condition.

My Contributions

Coming up with a name bigger than diabetes: One Health

Informing the brand team how Biosensor would affect positioning: whole body, pro-active health care.

Creative direction of the photography, color system and hardware CMF

Scope And Constraints

One Drop’s name was based on their current hardware. With the Biosensor promising to broaden the horizons of the company, it needed a name which would not limit it to any one piece of hardware or health condition.

My Contributions

Coming up with a name bigger than diabetes: One Health

Informing the brand team how Biosensor would affect positioning: whole body, pro-active health care.

Creative direction of the photography, color system and hardware CMF

Scalable Product Strategy

Scalable Product Strategy

Scope And Constraints

The Biosensor opened the opportunity to serve T2 and other conditions with the same hardware platform. Therefore we needed a digital strategy that could adapt to multiple use cases.


An iterative approach had to be taken to avoid suspending service to existing users.

My Contributions

Worked directly with C-Suite team on conceptualizing a Biosensor enabled platform.

Worked with product management and engineering to create an iterative development road map.

Leading design team to set up an adaptable UI system.

Moved to a flexible card feed structure for the home screen which could serve condition & context specific content.

Improved data visualization for deducing behavior patterns

Actionable insight cards allowing users to understand problematic areas to address.

Data overview cards allowing for a quick overview of health trends.

Conclusion

Over the course of this project, I successfully led the product and brand strategy, transforming One Drop into One Health, creating a flexible digital health platform concept capable of addressing multiple health conditions through a single hardware and software ecosystem.

The company ran out of funds to finalize the work we set off to do on the digital health platform road-map, but the groundwork laid in both brand strategy and platform architecture positions One Health to capitalize on future opportunities in the digital health space once it finishes the FDA approval process for the hardware.

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