App
My Diabetes Meals (by: Doug Warren)
I have identified the following possible user personas to represent different types of users for my app.
- Doug: iOS developer with Type 1 diabetes using One Drop and Diabetes Meal Plans
- One Drop Mobile users
- Diabetes Meal Plans users
- All persons with diabetes
- Any healthy cooking enthusiast
Initially I will just work on the user persona for Doug, and expand to additional personas for various market segments as design and development proceeds.
User 1: Doug
Personal
Doug is a 78-year old married male with college degree in economics who lives near Austin, Texas, USA. He has Type 1 diabetes with initial diagnosis over 17 years ago, takes insulin at bedtime and before meals as needed, and wears a Dexcom G7 CGM. He has an Apple iPhone, One Drop Digital subscription, and Diabetes Meal Plans VIP membership. He wants to get an Apple Watch soon to help further with his health.
Demographics
Name: Doug Warren
Age: 78, Gender: Male, Status: Married,
Education: College degree (4 yr)
Occupation: Software developer & book/blog editor, Location: Lago Vista, Texas, USA (near Austin)
Quote/Tagline: I focus a lot on my diabetes, but would like to integrate my glucose and food carb data with meal photos, plans, recipes, and links.
Professional Background
Education: A.B. in Economics, Rutgers College
Company & Job Title: IBM – Senior Advisor
Work Experience: Currently, he is an iOS developer for diabetes applications. Over the past few years, he has been a freelance editor with Reedsy for books, websites, and blog articles. He is a technical proofreader, editor, and reviewer of technical books on open source software technologies from Manning Publications (since 2001). He was an enterprise software architect with Countrywide Financial (now Bank of America) for 6 years. Before that, his 33-year career with IBM included Senior Advisor with IBM Global Services, Senior Consultant with IBM National Technical Support, and Advisory Systems Engineer for large customers. He was a Systems Programmer for 4 years on real-time command and control and intelligence data systems with the US Air Force.
Technical
Favorite Brands & Products:
Apple, iPhone, Mac, One Drop, Diabetes Meal Plans, LA Fitness, Whole Foods
Devices
Apple iPhone, MacBook Pro, iMac, Apple Watch (soon)
Software/Applications
Apple Health, Apple Photos, One Drop Mobile, iCloud
Web sites
One Drop, Diabetes Meal Plans
Social Networks
Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Blog (WordPress)
Daily Usage
Spends over 4 hours a day with iPhone apps, as well as much time on Mac apps like Xcode, AppCode, Sketch, etc. and internet web sites.
Interests
Golf, tennis, hiking, walking, reading, technology
Very interested in using technology to improve diabetes self-care through better tracking, analysis, and understanding.
Goals
- Track personal diabetes data and meals better
- See improvements in diabetes and meals
Challenges & Frustrations
Finding recipes takes too much time and hard to organize
Keywords
Recipe, meal, diabetes, glucose, carb
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