Pill Pall
Medicine Through Play!
Interactive and motivational approach for children to make taking their medication more fun and pleasurable by providing a method that crushes medicine through play. Pill Pal integrates medication and play as an easy and safe solution to parents administering medication.
Process
Defining the target user was clear when finding out there actually are two users since children lack the control and ability to take over responsibilities such as taking medicine, interacting with an interface, and more. Adults are the ones who hold responsibility over their children and are also the ones who purchase products for them, making them second hand users. Since both users have a say when buying a product, decisions were made with insightful research on design trends in children’s healthcare products and existing/conceptual products.
Market Research
Existing products only have one or two maximum functions. Most products just store, dispense, or crush pills. Other products just dispense liquid medication after pills being crushed by other means. Existing products are mostly designed for adults, elders, or babies, not much out there for kids.
Design Trends
Ideation
Focused on the following features while ideating:
Crushes "traditional tablets" and dispenses it into a ready-to-go silicone cup: crushing mechanism
Child entertainment and responsibility incentive
Not a storage nor an organization "box"
Gender neutral
Portable
How it works
Prototype
