KIKA FOUNDATION • 2016

The KiKa Foundation raises funds for innovative research and focuses on providing information about childhood cancer

Project goals

Often kids, age 7-12, who receive cancer treatment stay in their rooms alone and do not know there are kids next door,undergoing the same treatment. However connecting with fellow sufferers is stimulating to the healing process.

Stimulate bedridden children to connect when they are bedridden

Enable children to sign-up for hospital organised activities

Ready, set, test!

I joined the team to tests the prototype with children who are the same age as our target group. Onno made the first prototype (in Dutch, can be found here) and in the meanwhile I wrote the test scripts for the interviews. The kids had to perform certain tasks we’ve thought out. These flows could consist of multiple steps.

The tasks

The rating

After the user tests I made analysis. I’ve used the success rate to determine if a feature was correctly implemented. Per successful task 1 point, 0.5 if it was partially successful and 0 points if the task was not completed. Anything above 50% was okay enough to keep roughly the same for the next iteration of design.

The results

Ding, ding! Round 2

During the second user test we had all passes (with some tiny modifications). You can see the protoype here. The children understood the flow and features immediately. We also added three additional tasks next to the five we had before.

Visual design

There wasn’t any style guide or branding available besides a logo. Considering the children are sick and tired of treatment I’ve kept it playful and bright while maintaining a calm appearance. In the image below you’ll see some of the screens that contain the main features of the app. The solid lines indicate the flow. The dashed lines indicate a feature and a bit of the reasoning behind it.