We were picked from a handful of companies and offered to compete in a 4-week product sprint for the U.S. Government. The contest brief was to create any product using a database of medicine, side effects & interaction information.
1. Define data capability
2. Identify persona
3. Define problem(s)
4. Create assumptions on the solution
5. Start research to validate problem and solution
When people are looking online about prescription meds, they don't trust every website & may check multiple sources.
We heard that people sometimes have to take over the counter medicines combines with their existing medicine and will go online to find information regarding medicine interactions. Not all the websites to source from have the specific medicine that some of our users were looking for and usually only allow for two types of medicine comparisons at a time.
