This week’s tutorial included a UI change, especially changing the look of the icons on the navigation bar. Currently, the icons have solid colours, however, I asked to replace them with borders so it is more effective to look at and for the user to understand which one they are on.
Updated Nav Bar with bordered icons
Throughout the screens, I’ve mostly been using the main colours (navy, purple and pink) of the palette (Flare consists of five colours) to prototype the screens instead of using all of them. The implementation of this is to play around with the colour palette more when applying it to UI elements. This is so the components will stand out more, especially when gathering important information.
Other than the usual tutorial, there was also a visit from Kainos, and the feedback I got was very helpful and encouraging.
Throughout the session, we discussed what the app does and how it would be beneficial for the target group, however, one topic I wanted to talk about was the features of Flare and how it can be circulated more for pregnant women instead of only eczema.
I shared how Flare is limited for its audience and hoping how it can be shared more amongst the pregnancy community but thinking wondering how it can be curated around skincare. Since Flare uses AI to scan the impact of one’s eczema condition, the UX Designer suggested the AI feature could be developed more around burns and stretch marks. This means extending what AI currently offers (which is eczema) and developing it more for skin in general.
This was a good idea since it'll be beneficial for more audiences to use, however, because it’s a pregnancy app, the topics/contents should be centred around pregnant mothers the most. And with this, he also mentioned how AI can be used to scan an ultrasound scan image and develop it from there. He suggested that the AI can scan the image to look out for problems in the foetus (for example; the head, length, and health problems) and even the growth of the baby. The AI would act as a monitor for the mothers to understand how their baby is developing throughout trimesters.
I thought this would be a good plan to follow as it enables pregnant users to seek out help remotely if there are underlying concerns that could occur in the baby remotely It grasps the idea that AI can be used to give doctors a sense of assistance, especially as it potentially identify issues when they are not in the presence with the mother and baby.
For now, this is only an initial idea, the main goal right now is to do more research on pregnancy and ultrasound scans and identify how AI can be implemented as part of this procedure. And even figure out if there are any current problems that are still waiting to be solved.