Our Care Journal app
UI Design | Branding | Icon Design
The Our Care Journal app is an app produced by The Ageing Revolution to help people caring for others organize and track data.
Project Overview
Our Care Journal was created by the Australian dev team The Ageing Revolution as a solution for people in caretaking roles to track, manage, and share information about the people they care for. This project was originally known as The Care Journal. The name was changed due to copyright issues after development.
My Role:
UI designer creating Android app
Responsibilities:
Designing additional screens and icons to match existing UI design
Concept
The Ageing Revolution team came to me to expand the UI design of their existing project, The Care Journal app. The app was designed as a journal and care tracking solution to be used by “carers” or people who care for others, whether professionally or personally. The app had been through round 1 of development with another designer, who had since left.
My role:
Expand on the existing icon suite with new illustrative icons that matched the style of the current icons.
Create several new screen designs for features that had been added after usability testing
Refine the current logo design
Design
The team provided me with the original design files to work from, including the establish style guidelines.
Original Screens
A selection of layouts from the first version of the app.
New Screens
Along with expanding the user flow, we added some new features such as easy access buttons for key tasks in the top right, and a “switch view” function on the bottom right of some screens that swaps the user between the caretaker and person to be cared for profiles.
Original Icons
The existing icon suite was fairly small.
New Icons
Expanding the features required many new icons. I created these in Illustrator to match the existing icon style.
Logo Refinement
The team liked the existing logo concept, but it had been created in a program like Canva and needed some refining. I created an updated version in Illustrator.
Next Steps
Launch
The Care Journal app launched in 2019 in the Google Play store in Australia and New Zealand.
This app project is currently on pause. After launch, the team ran into some copyright issues and changed the name of the project to Our Care Journal.
Plans are in place to update the app and expand on the design and features even more, but all members of the team are currently tied up in other projects.
We expect to begin work on the new design in 2021.