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Gestational Diabetes App
Product walkthrough
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Problem
Gestational diabetes is managed almost entirely by the patient, and the instruction is essentially “keep your numbers down.” But the feedback loop is broken. She eats, and the consequence shows up two hours later as a number with no label on it. Without knowing which meal caused which spike, she’s running the same experiment over and over without ever seeing the result.
Solution
An app powered by a continuous glucose monitoring device that closes that loop automatically. It correlates every logged meal with the glucose readings inside the American Diabetes Association's 2-hour post-meal window, so each meal comes back with its own answer instead of a number floating free. It flags what’s out of range, and when glucose climbs past 140 with no meal on record, it asks her what she ate rather than letting the data point go unexplained. Everything rolls up into a report she can hand to her care team.
Role
Personal passion project. Concept, product design, and the working prototype.