Your Personalized SAD Treatment Assistant
The LUX System
What's LUX?

Overview

The lack of sunlight exposure, especially during the winter months among the people that live in conditions similar to Seattle can lead to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). People try to find ways to deal with their mood, but have trouble tracking and remembering to receive treatments. Our solution focuses on helping the users deal with their SAD symptoms through a series of monitoring, reminder, and analysis tasks.

Tracking

Sunlight exposure tracking is done all by the puppy through a solar panel on its back as it follows the user throughout the day.

Reminders

People have trouble remembering to receive treatment, so the user can set reminders on the application and get notified by the puppy.

Analysis

Through a detailed analysis tab, users are able to view the correlation between sunlight exposure and mood overtime.

Video Prototype

See the LUX system in action!


Design Process

How we got it right.

  • Contextual Inquiries

    After a strenuous process of identifying potential user groups, we went out and interviewed one person from each group in order to get a better understanding of what those users face, how the currently try to cope, and where LUX could improve those processes.

  • Paper Prototyping

    An important step in knowing whether or not we truly understood our user base was creating a visualization of all the features that we identified as necessary through the interview process.

  • User Testing

    After completing an initial heuristic evaluation of our paper prototype, we approached three different individuals who fell into our user groups for half an hour of their time to go through a testing scenario with us.

  • Digital Mockups

    After two iterations of changes in the paper prototype phase we went to work on creating higher fidelity representations of our final product, which needed another iteration of two itself.

Our Amazing Team

The coolest kids on the block

Megan Rawley

Documentation/Design Lead

Reggie Jones

Usability Lead

Eric Nhan

Project Manager

Evan Leon

Market Lead

Documentation

Walk through the evolution of LUX.

Defining LUX

Getting the Design Right

Design Report

What is LUX going to be

Poster

Presenting LUX to the world!

About Our Users

Contextual Inquiry Notes

Research Presentation

How we came to find LUX

Final Design Presentation

Where the iterations led us