Patient Advisor: Marie McGlinchey
Feedback and ideas from Vinehealth users are a crucial part in development of our app. This is to ensure we are developing features that will be beneficial to our users and that are intuitive and easy to understand, we regularly speak to them to help us validate each feature and design in the app.
In this blog, please meet Marie, one of our patient advisors, who has participated in various user research studies.
Marie's Patient Advisor profile
Bowel cancer patient
User research sessions held: 6 and counting
User research types: usability testing sessions, interviews, surveys
Hours spent on interviews: 3+ hours
Features worked on: Adding medications into the app, delaying and resuming cycles, tracking in the app
Ideas suggested: 4
Been helping with user research since April 2021
Marie's thoughts
"I started using the Vinehealth app back in January 2021 while on a 3 month chemo break to keep a track of my daily medication, temperature and affects that I was experiencing. Before using the app, I was keeping a daily journal on my phone.
I started to provide user feedback to the team via DM then was invited to provide feedback via Zoom. As a user, I found this helpful, given that I'm using it everyday. Since then I have been invited to help further on changes to the app, asking for my feedback. As I'm now retired, I'm happy to help others, share my experience and awareness. There is so much more that can be offered to cancer patients.."
Becoming a Patient Advisor
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