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01 — Industrial & Interaction Design

While maintaining a balance between the familiar semantics of a medication pill bottle (i.e. child proof cap, cylindrical shape, white plastic) and adding a touch of intelligence and technology (i.e. backlit pill ‘gauge’ window, base with edge glow, and a rubber foot), the oval shape of the bottle allows better leverage on the cap for arthritic users. We conducted ergonomic consideration studies with cardboard mockups to discover the best shape and appropriate dimension envelopes for reaching and dispensing pills. Focusing on the development of well-performing capacitive measurements of pills inside the bottle, we created comprehensive mapping of the Service Design to cover Prescriptions & Ordering, Product Delivery, Sending and Receiving Adherence Data, and Returns of the AdhereTech bottle.

AdhereTech - Frictionless Medication Adherence

AdhereTech — Frictionless Medication Adherence

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02 — Product Architecture & Mechanical Engineering

The bottle’s patented, flexible capacitive sensor is a key product feature which lends a technical ability not found in other products. This sensor, developed in-house, is embedded inside the bottle and allows the bottle to measure the contents inside itself and securely transmit this data to the web as part of AdhereTech service offering. When determining the Product Architecture, we accommodated for the following: material selection for FDA compliance, part design for ease of manufacture, and a 2-part strategy for easy assembly. A leaf lever switch embedded in the rim of cap allows the bottle to detect when the cap has been removed or reapplied, initiating connectivity to the web for data transmissions and other actions.

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03 — Service Design

Tomorrow Lab hosted several expert or stakeholder interviews to map the product's journey across Prescription, Delivery, Adherence Data Collection, and Returns. We did this in order to discover design details. Decisions like the location of labels, the size of the rechargeable battery, and the overall capacity was driven by the findings from these interviews.

AdhereTech — Service Design