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Pulse Health
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iOS
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2025
Symptom check-in
A daily check-in short enough that people actually do it.
Check-in — iPhone
iOS
The 30-second version
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Role
Senior product designer
Team
1 PM, 3 engineers, 1 clinician
Timeline
12 weeks
Platform
iOS
Problem
Patients stopped logging symptoms after the first week, so doctors saw gaps instead of trends.
+41%
weekly check-ins
38 s
average check-in
4.7
App Store rating
01 Context
Pulse helps people with chronic pain keep a diary for their doctor. The old diary had 14 questions, and 70% of new users stopped after week one.
02 Research
I ran a two-week diary study with 9 patients and sat in on 4 appointments. Doctors only looked at three things: pain, energy and sleep.
03 Decisions
We cut the check-in to those three, with big tap targets you can use with a sore hand. Notes became optional. We lost some detail, so the weekly summary asks one follow-up question instead.
04 Result
Weekly check-ins rose 41%, the average check-in takes 38 seconds and doctors now get a one-page summary before each visit.
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