Project Description
Bean2Baby
To-do Lists for the New Life Experience
When OpenIDEO presented the question, “How might we reimagine the new life experience by addressing the diverse challenges of all mothers, babies, and those who care for them?” as one of their 2018 design challenges, I drew inspiration from my own experience to propose Bean2Baby, a crowd-sourced to-do list for expectant parents who might not have strong local support networks to guide them.
The OpenIDEO challenge platform allowed me to post about my inspiration and proposal, and make adjustments to it based on participant comments.
In using a design process to explore how to gather and deliver the right information, at the right time, in the right way, for expectant parents, I created a simple form to invite maternal health advocates to submit resources as short, simple tasks, organized by trimester and week.
Categories:
Industry:
Community Advocacy
Patient Advocacy
Healthcare
Non-profit
Social Issues
Skills:
Analysis
UI/UX Design
Wireframing
Prototyping
Github/Markdown
Links:
I organized the tasks into an open-source spreadsheet that anyone can copy, edit or add to. And I made a simple website to explain Bean2Baby’s purpose.
Bean2Baby was selected by OpenIDEO, Sutter Health and UCB as one of the five Top Ideas for this challenge.
Applying information design and human-centered design principles to help overwhelmed new parents is still my passion! In my free time, I am involved in the design community at Motherhood.design, a non-profit group on a mission to co-create better maternal health.
