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Case Study on the UI Design of Health Management Apps for Patients with Hypertension Based on User Need

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Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases, which needs long-term detection, management and treatment, Hypertension has brought a great burden to patients’ life. Hypertension health management is a pressing issue for people with hypertension. Fast, effective and comfortable hypertension management has become a key consideration for designers. This paper analyzes and studies a variety of health management apps for patients with hypertension. It aims to provide effective basic information of UI design for the development of new hypertension self-management apps.

This paper adopts the methods of literature investigation, interview investigation and case comparative analysis. In order to understand the characteristics and needs of older, middle-aged and adolescent patients with hypertension. Through the investigation of the information structure of the functions used in the app and the five elements of layout, color, icon, font and chart in the GUI design, combined with the deep access survey results, this paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the UI design of the three apps.

The study found that: all three apps were more suitable for adolescents and middle-aged hypertensive patients in terms of information structure and GUI design. In general, the user classification is not clear across apps, and the content of the information structure is inconsistent with the functional needs of the patient groups. In terms of GUI design, the difficulty of identifying and obtaining information is also different. The UI design of hypertension health management apps should be carried out according to the characteristics and requirements of different patient groups.

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Cao, L. (2022). Case Study on the UI Design of Health Management Apps for Patients with Hypertension Based on User Need. In: Rau, PL.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Business, Communication, Health, Well-being, and Inclusiveness. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06050-2_23

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