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Project Overview
Wryst is a wearable device that will fundamentally shift the way we maintain hand hygiene, creating a lasting habit that protects ourselves, our loved ones, and the world from infectious disease. The product is wrist mountable, operating with a cartridge system allowing users to effortlessly clean their hands several times a day before replacing the cartridge with a new one when finished.
Both a mobile app and a smart watch widget will be created to allow users to track compliance.
Role
UI/UX Designer, Industrial Product Designer, Project Manager. Solo.
Tools
Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Inventor.
Design Objective
Create a wearable hand sanitiser to improve hand hygiene compliance.
Discovery
Understanding The Science
We began by trying to understanding how we could improve compliance. As this project was carried out during a national lockdown, in response to COVID-19; to speed up the discovery process we also turned to the scientific literature to draw insights from.
Insights
Learnings From Science
After reading the literature there were two clear points on which we were going to forumualte our hypothesis.
Compliance is correlated to ease.
In hospitals where wall mounted sanitising dispensors were used the compliance of doctors were approximately 40%, and when doctors were told to carry a personal hand sanitising bottle, compliance went up to 60%.
Correlation with compliance and safety
By cleaning your hands once an hour, a user could reduce the spread of infectious disease by over 70%.
Groundwork
Personality
Elegant. Clean. Simple.
As a representation of our company values, we want to ensure our product and app have a clean finish.
Colours
We used the existing colour pallette that was put together for the brand image with a few additions for the app.
Primary
Maximum Blue
#48ADC8
Fuzzy Wuzzy
#CF6A6A
Neutrals
Grey Web
#272727
Cultured
#FDFAFA
Supporting Colours
Green Pigment
#33A756
Honeydew
#F1FCF1
Alice Blue
#F6FDFF
Typeface
We exclusively used Open Sans as our typeface for the Wryst app and widget. The key typefaces are shown below:
Heading H1
Heading H2
Heading H3
Body Text B1
Body Text B2
Body Text B3
13px
13px
13px
13px
13px
13px
Regular
Regular
Regular
Light
Regular
Regular
Maximum Blue
Green Pigment
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Maximum Blue
Green Pigment
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Product Specifications
To create a premium feel for the product, a good quality materials were used.
Colour
Materials
Finish
The product was designed as a silicone band with a plastic replaceable cartridge. Each cartridge has enough sanitiser to last one day with hourly hand cleaning.
Solution
App
To keep everything in line with the product image of clean simplicity, we ensured the app only had a 3 key pages; main page, handwash data, temperature data.
Main
Handwash
Temperature
Widget
Due to the limited space on a watch face, we decided to build a widget that shows the time until the next handwash which is done hourly. On the hour, the watch will vibrate reminding the user to wash their hands.
Handwash Timer
Testing and Feedback
We tested both the app and the product designs at every step in the creative process and received very positive feedback througout. The app wireframe can be tested here.
Wryst - The Wearable Hand Sanitiser
Key Project Lesson
Agility is Essential
During the project there were several times that we had to make rapid decisions based on the changing global environment to ensure that our product makes it to market as soon as possible, and provide the greatest impact. To keep everything moving fast we set up a single channel of communication specifically for key decisions.