Creating a holistic self-care experience through health data
Industrial Design & Brand Strategy
Umeå Institute of Design
April - June 2019
Team: Julian Loretz
Collaboration with Nokia
Concept
Holistic self-care experience that enables technology to improve people’s health in an unobtrusive and mindful way.
This ecosystem of products which seamlessly blends into the user’s home consists of three pebble-shaped devices, each one containing the technology for a certain therapy.
Traditional vs. Digital Health
With the technological changes and products created with them coming to the market everyday, our understanding on “health” is also changing. One of the biggest effects comes with the digital health is how patients’ contribution to their health is changed.
Understanding the Brand
Core Areas & Adjacencies
Nokia Product Family
Focusing on providing a “better self” for users, Nokia’s strenght in the market is their product range and ability to connect all of these devices with an application called Healthmate.
Holistic Self Care
Creating a unique personal experience of self-care to make better use of the data in order to give the users more holistic understanding of his or her health.
Personal Self Care
taking time for yourself
Understand Health Data
from all the connected devices
Self Examination
prevention by identifying signs
Ideation Workshop
How might we create a holistic self care experience by using and visualizing data in a more inclusive and transparent way?
Defining the Concept
Video Protoyping the Scenario
Concept Idea
Pebbles & Connected Hub to Control
Finding the Form
heal
Ultrasonic Therapy and Skin Examination
Penetrates deep below the skin increasing blood circulation and promoting cellular renewal.
beauty
Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy
Improves the body’s natural ability to heal itself for a long-term effect on many different health problems by equalizing the ion ratio in blood cells and enabling a better oxygen circulation.
active
Electric Nerve Stimulation Therapy
Treats muscle or posture related pain. The parts are attached on skin-adhesive patches which provide an electrical current that stimulates the nerves.
How do they work?
heal
Activation charging by pressing the on/off button.
Long term healing with magnetic field therapy
beauty
Track your skin quality with moisture and elasticity sensor.
Ultrasound therapy improves the quality of your skin.
Self examination check if your moles are safe.
active
Activation by attaching the pebbles to the patches
Adjust the intensity and time with touch screen on the plate
