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Reduce cognitive load with explanatory data

Reduce cognitive load with explanatory data

Trends provide health insights by detecting individuals’ routine changes through data science and our AI model. It helps customer to identify potential diagnoses sooner for their loved ones.

Key contributions — Leading design direction + strategy + execution, ux, team collaboration, research & workshops

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Main Objectives

1. Reduce at least 20% of customers everyday workload on everyday tasks

2. Reduce unnecessary human errors on data research and analysis

3. Improve product data structure and speedup the loading time by at least 50%

4. Increase the volume of business acquired

Outcomes

~73%

Significant speed up on users everyday tasks

~40%

Reduction on return tickets from users systems (Error or additional inquiry)

~60%

Significant Loading speed improvement

3

New businesses onboarded

What We Are Trying To Solve

User spent significant time reviewing individuals’ health data. Managing the workload and human error became challenging when more individuals onboard.

High Cognitive Load

Users felt overwhelmed by the amount and complexity of data they had to analyse every day.

Product Performance

Users were frustrated when comparing health data because of the platform’s slow loading time.

Human Error

The level of complexity of daily tasks lead users feared of making mistakes.

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Principles & Strategy That Drive Business Impact

Work Smarter Not Harder

The solution should give users focus and clarity. Delivering the health insight in a straightforward solution.

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How it works

We applied the raw data processing model to the backend and implemented calculations to simplify the data structure. This allows us to present clinicians with summaries based on their criteria and drive their understand of the health data.

Keep It Simple

Unify data presentation and reduce the need for extra processing by users.

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How it works

We believed that errors were related to the complexity of clinician tasks. They mentioned that more data was presented on the page, which required more time to find any health issues and potentially missed out on important health relationships.

Speed It Up

Improve our data structure to provide a faster and smoother user experience for their daily tasks

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How it works

We worked with our DS team to evaluate the existing data structure and figure out how to transform it into something both lighter and more straightforward.

Insights & learning drive our execution

With the learning on the existing health insights, which presented users with a overwhelming amount of data without clear structure. We defined our improvements.

❌ Inconsistent ❌ Indirect ❌ Improvement Needed

1. Simplify & Unify

16 Data attributes 11 → 3 Unified modules

We simplify the health data presentation from 11 down to 3 unified modules to summarise individuals’ health insights.

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Counting — Countable data that continuously accumulates from zero.

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Range/ Rate — The measurements that fall between two specific values (ranges).

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Time — Displaying time-based data (specific times or periods during the day).

2. Focus & Clarity

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Exploratory Data vs…

The previous system display data across different charts, where users need to explore and identify unusual health pattern. This approach is time-consuming and increases users workload.

Explanatory Data

Instead of make them search for Wally, we bring them Wally.

We simplify the logic and deliver the pattern change to users directly as Trends. It create focus so users can manage their workload by ignoring unnecessary and distracting data.

3. Reduce Friction

60% Performance Speed improved

With Data Science and Back End Team amazing work, we managed to achieve a significant faster loading speed with the new Trends approach.

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🙅‍♂️-Functional Collaboration

Cross-functional Workshops

Prioritising tasks for different teams based on difficulty and potential technical limitations

Design Execution

Define core function specification based on the design direction

Proof of Concept

Evaluating our decision with fully functional product performance

Qualitative Testing

Measuring the impact against our defined objectives

Challenges — Data analysis is complex, unexpected scenarios happens, data collection could went wrong…

Delivery & Impact

MySense Trends Reduced friction in data delivery by focusing on the most significance health pattern changes. This drives a lighter workload and faster performance.

User Experience

✅ Simplify & Unify

Using 3 consistent modules to deliver 16 data attributes. Highlighting specific changes in health data.

✅ Focus & Clarity

Applying Trends to users’ daily tasks can simplify their workload by reducing unnecessary and distracting data.

✅ Reduce Friction

Significant faster performance provide better and lighter experience on data delivery.

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A/B Testing

We test the Trends along side the original function. With qualitative interview and feedback sections, we measure the impact on both users and business.

Testing Methodology

~73%

Significant speed up on users everyday tasks based on 30 individual tasks.

”The new approach helped me prioritise tasks effectively. I allocate more time to those who genuinely require attention in stead of mapping data on everyone.”

~38%

Reduction on return tickets from users systems (Error or additional inquiry)

“With the new approach, I can work on the require actions based on the Trends insight and take note right away in stead of copy and paste into a work document. It would definitely reduce human errors.”

60%

Significant Loading speed improvement.

“It is so much faster!”

Learnings

We’ve identified a few areas that we need to address in the next version, as per users’ feedback.

There are Improvements to enhance the functionality while also introducing some specific features that we could incorporate into the product.

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Data Relation

The new approach simplifies the data structure, making it easier for clinicians to detach individual routine changes and provide a direction for health analysis. However, it becomes challenging to analyse multiple matrices simultaneously. This insight prompted us to consider the detailed view of each data point and the data relationships that can be established between related data. By connecting these related data points, we can create a comprehensive insight based on a single significant individual routine change.

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Data Comparisons

Clinicians found the Trends insights helpful in identifying short-term pattern changes. They can analyse individual health data using this feature. However, they need to compare the recent matrix to the standard matrix for that individual (a baseline representing a healthy day, such as the first day they used the MySense sensor). Current they have a data based of that baseline so they can compare it themselves. We think this is an interesting feature to be look into but we are not sure if this is beyond the purpose of Trends. We will discuss it with the team to explore how we can develop this feature along with Trends.

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Data Timeframe

Clinicians can select a specific date to review any significant routine changes based on the data for that date and the previous 7 days. This short-term pattern changes can help them identify potential diagnoses. However, long-term pattern changes are also necessary for clinicians to monitor for repeated cycles over months to prove the accuracy of the analysis. We were already working on long-term trends, which cover health data changes for a month. Unfortunately, the performance did not pass QA due to a long loading time and limitations in timeframe selection. We will continue working on this feature and bring it to the next version of Trends.

*All user data and quantities in this case study have been adjusted in accordance with individuals’ data protection policies and the company's NDA.

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