HumanFirst
Helping researchers find the right technology for their clinical trials
Role: UX, Visual Design
Date: 2022
Duration: 1 Year
Team: Eliza Tehan, Steph Lee
Overview
HumanFirst has a database of health monitoring devices. Clinical researchers come to their platform to look for devices to measure patient health during a trial. I worked closely with the HumanFirst team to build out an ever changing product based on customer needs over the course of a year. Below are some of the feature we built into their product.
This case study is broken into 4 sections:
1. Search Tech
2. Measure Trees
3. Product Detail Page
4.Filtering the Catalog
Search Tech
Guiding the researchers to discover and save technology
Researchers come to HumanFirst with an idea of what they want to measure in their study. Search allows them to browse technology (products) based on what they want to measure.
Making Search Simple
Researchers don't usually know what to search, but they do know what they want to measure. Most researchers do know what measures they want to capture so we made search by measure the default.
From the search results page, the researcher could either open a individual product page or select products to compare.
Compare Technology
Each product has hundreds of data points to compare. Researchers scanning this page found it difficult to find the information they were wanted. We added a pin data button so researchers can pin relevant data points to the top of the compare page.
Save Selected Tech
Once a researcher has found suitable products they can add them to their personal catalog or start a clinical trial.
Measure Trees
Displaying measure information in context
Concepts vs. Measures
There are hundreds of different metrics these products can measure. To help researchers quantify what they want to measure HumanFirst categorized them into 'concepts' and 'measures'. We organized measures into cascading trees for the researchers to navigate. Below are some of the visual design explorations for these trees.
The Winning Tree
We felt that this tree had a good balance of being compact but readable at the same time. One challenging aspect of this tree is the amount of vertical space it requires.
Explore the Measure Library
Some researchers wanted to explore all measures before searching for tech. This library page shows all measures on the HumanFirst platform. These tress can get quite long. We later added expand all and collapse all buttons so they could reset the tree states with ease.
Product Detail Page
Organizing the product information in digestible pieces
Evidence Breakdown
The breakdown at the top provides an overview of the listed papers below. Every piece of technology has evidence backing up what it can measure. It is important for researchers to see the validity of this evidence and which papers support which measures.
Product Specs
Along with measures researchers are looking for general information on this products such as battery-life, cost, and security. We have broken down this information into a ‘nutrition label’ for each product. We designed this information to be easily digested.
