Figure 1 iPhone App Redesign v.1: Eliminate the “Favourite” icon and Profile Tab Redesign
The Figure 1 Redesign projects are based on users feedbacks I collected as a Figure 1 Student Ambassador.
Figure 1, is a medical knowledge-sharing application for global healthcare professionals to view, discuss medical cases and network. There are availble free mobile apps on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Web platforms.
Due to the convenience, I will start from the Figure 1 iPhone app redesign. There are 5 tabs of Figure 1 iPhone version 8.23.2 (as of September 29, 2017). I will start from the redesign of Home tab. Below is the current Home Tab.
The first major Redesign subject is the “follow” icon and texts and the “favourite” icon, which is purportedly confusing by some users.
In order to clarify this confusion with interface design, I decided to leverage the “bookmark” icon in order to replace the favourite icon.
Besides, when users long-press on the “Bookmark” icon, a small pop-up will also be displayed upon the cases, prompting the users whether to save to his or her collections or not.
The introduction of bookmark icon and elimination of favourite icon will change the interface design of the profile Tab.
II. Redesign of the Profile Tab after introducing the bookmark icon
The current profile tab screen is below. Besides the identity, interests, and bio information of the user, the lower section of Profile Tab contains 5 sections, namely “invite colleagues”, cases, comments, followers, collections.
However, there are a few information redundancy and dislocation at the lower section of the screen.
A. Invite Colleage button should not be categorized with the other four sections. I personally think it should fall under the upper section of the screen with the bio identity and username.
B. The cases section contains favourites and following cases. Both of the subsections of the cases section didn’t contain much users’ data input. I believe, the space on the interface should maximize users’ participation and trigger users’ interaction, instead of just displaying the history and letting users browse.
The following cases features should fall under the activity tab, where users can easily see the updates of new cases. While the favourite feature has been taken out, we don’t need to include the favourited cases any more. Thus, the cases section could be eliminated. Instead the cases should only include the cases uploaded by the user.
C. The followers subsection contain both followers and following users, which is not logical for users to navigate. Instead of explaining the section with texts, we can simply use icons like connections or a name card icon. And its attributes fit more into the identify or personal information section, which locates at the upper section of the screen.
D. As I substituted the favorites with bookmarked, all the bookmarked cases will fall under the Collections subsection.
As for the upper section of the screen, the badge and verified identity be simplied, like “medical student” doesn’t need to be displayed now that there’s a “verified medical student” badge.
Thus, the redesign of the profile screen would look like this.
Due to my redesign approach, updates on users’ following cases will be removed to the “Activity Tab”, thus the next redesign task would be on the activity tab.
