Ideas4Diabetes Workshop at 5pace in Berlin on November 6th, 2017

A Design Sprint for Diabetes Care Ideas

Elisheva Marcus
5 min readNov 22, 2017

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Participants started the day by crafting color-coded name tags to designate perspective; ‘PWD’ stand for people with diabetes.
Inspirational wall at 5pace in Berlin

On a Mission

Dmitri Katz explains challenges that diabetes management apps still face.

Creative Process

Developing a ‘creature companion’ to guide children with diabetes to understand blood sugar levels. Children can draw this character to represent their physiological state related to the levels, uploading the drawing to the app.
Coming up with a toothbrush that uses saliva measurements of glucose.
Planning a bed-side sugar-pill dispenser with the right dosage.

Pivoting & User-testing

Testing out pregnancy-specific diabetes material: normal range of blood sugar levels vary widely during each trimester, making measurements complex.
Discussing the value and complexities of traveling with the right insulin dosage.

Revising & Iterating

Storyboarding the journey within an app geared towards children with diabetes.
Color-coding and storyboarding
Sugar pills made from modeling clay
Developing prototypes with 2D and 3D components

Final Presentations & Discussion

Sharing ideas and prototypes for on-the-go, predictive solutions
Discussing how to best handle diabetes during pregnancy through an app due to special health concerns
Katz giving pointers to the group after the final presentations

Take-Away: Develop Solutions with End-Users & Create Community

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Elisheva Marcus
Elisheva Marcus

Written by Elisheva Marcus

Reporting from within a Venn diagram of health, tech and empowerment. Berlin-based. Internationally minded. Comms @ Earlybird Venture Capital

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