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Native Health Redesign

Native Health Redesign

for iOS & Android - 2019

The Enterprise Product

Ovia’s enterprise product, internally known as “Native Health” is a premium version of the suite of apps (Ovia Fertility, Ovia Pregnancy, and Ovia Parenting). Enterprise users are enrolled in a premium account if their employer or health insurer is partnered with Ovia Health. The project goal was to provide users with state of the art health resources (real-time health coaching, clinical programs and content, and benefits information), so they have better health outcomes throughout their fertility, pregnancy and parenting journeys. 

The Challenge

After launching Ovia’s Enterprise Solution in 2017, the challenge was to get eligible users to enroll in their premium account, and to increase engagement once they were there. Without compelling evidence that the enterprise product was effective in improving clinical outcomes, it would be nearly impossible to keep moving this product forward. In 2019 we reassessed the UX/UI with the goal of increasing enrollment and engagement.   

Problems to solve

  1. Lack of awareness

    • Users didn’t know they are eligible for a premium account 

    • Users didn’t know how to enroll in a premium account even if they knew it’s available

    • Users knew they are enrolled in a premium account, but didn’t know what services were available to them

  2. Ineffective design

    • Users found tools difficult to use, and the services were not intuitive

    • Everything just felt like too much work

    • Tools didn’t feel modern and exciting 

  3. Practical concerns

    • Addressing privacy concerns and prominence of partner logo

    • Product did not meet accessibility guidelines

    • Product did not match new styles from company rebrand

    • Large design changes will need to be approached strategically to accommodate minimal engineering resources 

Company

Ovia Health

Business line

Ovia’s Enterprise product

Project type

App feature redesign - iOS & Android

My role

Senior Product Designer

The team

Chief of Product, Engineering Product Manager, Enterprise Technical Lead, Front-End Engineers (2), Back-End Engineers (2), QA

Addressing problems 2 & 3

Part 1: Redesigning the native health dashboard (see developmental flowchart)

Before

After

Goals of the dashboard redesign

  • Update Ovia logo to new horizontal version to free up screen real estate

  • Add personalized title to reframe the page as one cohesive health program

  • Address the hierarchy of the page so that CTA buttons reflect the intended priorities of the user

    • Highlight the three tools we want to encourage users to visit most (health coaching, employer benefits, health content)

    • Move health & lifestyle content to a new page to eliminate the long, colorful list from the original design

    • Downplay the “additional tools” section so it feels like a lower priority

  • Move partner logo to footer of the page de-emphasize the employer/health plan in the user’s mind and create less disruption to the design

  • Generally clean up the design, embrace white space and a limited color palette

Part 2: Health coaching - before

Goals of the coaching redesign

  • Make navigation easier by adding “start a conversation button.”

    • Based on feedback that the previous pencil icon was not visible or intuitive enough

  • Update inbox to feel more like a customary email or messaging inbox that aligns with users’ expectations

    • Addition of bolded text to show an unread message

  • Update conversation view to feel like a modern messaging interface

    • Addition of user’s icon as message avatar

    • More detailed and accurate time stamps

Sketching phase

First draft

Main takeaways from user testing the first draft:

  1. User’s thought it felt cold/clinical with the all teal/white colors

  2. Users like the clean and simple layout and found it easy to navigate

  3. Users wanted more personalization - especially in the context of the coach/user avatars in the conversation view

Final draft (See detailed flow chart)

Additional enhancements

Goals of further coaching enhancements

  • Addition of green dot within the coach icon will indicate coaching is live - as we move towards more “on-demand” coaching

  • Green dot will turn grey when coach is away which will help user’s have realistic expectations on when to expect a response

  • During certain hours when coach is away there will be an away message added so users will have more confirmation on when they can expect to hear back from their coach

Outcomes

As of August 2019 all of above “final designs” and “future enhancements” of Ovia Health coaching are live for our enterprise users. In conjunction with the design updates, we also coordinated with our coaching team (an army of amazing nurses) to ensure that users could expect real-time support from a coach at all times during active coaching hours. So far we have seen a huge jump in coaching utilization, and our coaching team is expanding to fill the need. We are seeing a reduction in negative feedback from users who formerly struggled to use the coaching interface. After adding the “green dot” indicating when coaching was live, we are seeing greater user satisfaction because people know exactly what to expect and aren’t left wondering when they will hear back from their coach. An unintended but positive side effect is also that our coaches can spend less time telling users what to expect and how to use the tool, and more time actually addressing health concerns.