Health Apps by Us at the We #makehealth Fest!
Come make your own digital app!
Post by @joyclee, co-conspirator of the We Make Health Fest!
Earlier this week we unveiled our paper prototypes for app making on the Mott Hospital blog: simple, cheap, and easy templates to support creation for health! We will definitely have these prototypes available at the We Make Health Fest but we wanted to give you a sneak preview of other creations/exhibits that we will be displaying at the Fest.
Tools for Visual Creation
With the explosion of mobile phones and tablets, there are a ton of apps available to facilitate creation. One that we recently discovered is called Pixaki.
It’s an app for the iPad, which allows you to draw pixelated pictures by hand. It has this awesome grid that you can use to create characters, monsters, and body parts using the touch screen. Even the most inhibited of artists can use it and feel totally creative. The cool thing is, you can download the pictures to a computer, and then use them in app games created with Stencyl.
B the designer starts creating once again!
We have been playing around with this app, and I encouraged B to create an allergy app, to go along with his allergy videos. We decided on an app that would display the different symptoms of an allergic reaction. He would start with a normal body part, and then the allergic symptom for that body part would show up with a tap of the screen. Here are some examples:
Vomiting
Swollen Tongue
Margot Robert, a talented student from the Stamps School of Art and Design then took the illustrations and incorporated them into an app template she created using Stencyl. Check out this little prototype!
We need to still work out some kinks, including adding a few extra symptoms, adding descriptive text, and more interactive clues to the user to guide the navigation.
Margot is going to have a booth at the Make Health Fest, so if you have a creation that you would like to make, come by the App Design by Us booth to create your pixel art mobile health application! Depending on how busy it gets, we may have start with a slightly simpler prototype design, but the bottom line is that even a 7 year old can create an app with a little bit of help, which means you can too! We can be creators/makers of health!
Please attend, present or exhibit at the We Make Health Fest! Sign up here to learn more about how you can join and contribute!
This awesome app creation work was done by Margot Robert, artist/designer and student at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.