Cariva™ Caregiver Platform
Project: Cariva™ All-in-One Caregiver Platform
Created for: Google’s UX Design course
Prompt: Design an app and a responsive website for a hospital's caregiver support program to help family caregivers coordinate medication schedules, communicate with care teams, and share updates with other caregivers or family members.
Status: In progress
OverviewCaregivers, such as an adult child taking care of an aging parent or a parent taking care of an ill child, get overwhelmed with their myriad responsibilities. They tend to use multiple tracking apps, such as tracking apps for medications and symptoms and MyChart-type apps for medical records and communicating with healthcare providers. It is extremely difficult to manage multiple apps on top of doctors’ appointments. Health information can be confusing and difficult to remember.
Caregivers frequently experience guilt. They may feel like they aren’t doing enough for their loved one. They beat themselves up for missing something or forgetting to do something.
And caregivers are exhausted both physically and mentally. They attend doctors’ appointments and update family members on the loved one’s condition.
What if there were an app that consolidated medication and symptom tracking, medical records, communicating with healthcare providers, and sharing updates with other caregivers or family members?
That’s what Cariva™ is intended to do. Cariva™ is being designed to be an all-in-one platform that reduces overwhelm, guilt, and exhaustion in caregivers. It would give peace of mind to caregivers that they are up to date and on top of their loved one’s needs.
Interactive Prototypes
Cariva™ was designed for two distinct caregiving contexts — and the prototype reflects that. Rather than a single generic flow, you can explore two separate interactive experiences, each built around a specific persona with specific needs.
Maria's flow focuses on medication management for her mother Rosa, an 81-year-old with dementia, Type II diabetes, and COPD. It demonstrates Cariva's adaptive medication tracking system — color-coded status tags, multi-select logging, skip functionality, and medication detail management.
Patty's flow follows a more complex caregiving scenario — her six-year-old son Dylan, who has severe cerebral palsy with epilepsy, respiratory insufficiency, and a G-tube. This flow demonstrates Cariva's most distinctive features: real-time seizure logging, an adaptive care log with Bluetooth-synced vitals, automated shift handoff summaries, care team coordination, and multi-provider messaging — the feature that doesn't exist in any competing caregiver app.
Together these two flows demonstrate that Cariva isn't a generic caregiving tool — it's a system that adapts to the patient's conditions, the caregiver's context, and the complexity of the care situation.
Prototype Samples
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