Problem
Medical students must dedicate significant time to studying, and so it can be difficult for them to find resources that they can use to study effectively.
Additionally, asking questions that are more complicated than Google can answer is often necessary. At the moment, Quizlet is the biggest player when it comes to learning, but it lacks a good organization system and is not designed for a specific niche.
Solution
Medizzy is a social platform that connects over 500k students and professionals in their fields of interest. It provides a social platform for asking questions or talking about interesting cases.
It also has a well-organized base of over 32,000 questions in forms of flashcards and multi choice questions checked by professionals. This means the user can ask a question and the community will help to answer it, or you can browse through existing questions to learn more about specific topics.
Target Audience
Med Students
18-25y
90% of Users
Many students excel in the field of technology and come from diverse backgrounds. They are often willing to dedicate years of study and take out loans in order to achieve their goals. These students are often engaged in their industry and community.
Stress Points
Huge amount of knowledge
An overwhelming number of sources
Deadlines
Career deciding exams
Precise unanswered questions
Needs
An efficient way to study
Organized knowledge source they can trust
Accessible exam learning materials
A community of other students
Current Solutions
Using different platforms like Quizlet, Google docs, facebook or brainly
Co-sharing materials with others
Old fashion methods they are used to
Healthcare Professionals
25-60y
10% of Users
Professionals tend to focus more on the social platform rather than all the learning features. If they are really dedicated to their field, they expect more articles/discussions with other experienced people.
Needs
Platform allowing them to discuss with others
Reliable source of medical news and cases
Place where they can easily share their knowledge
Current Solutions
Following people on LinkedIn, facebook, or industry-specialized sites
News services and apps
User Onboarding
Before redesign that didn’t have it. After logging in you were thrown straight onto the feed.
With redesign of the backend, now each user will be assigned a role.
I designed a completely new process that allows us to make the user experience more precise, right after creating an account. After completing the process, the user receives an award and a taste of the premium version.
Learning
It was a challenge from a design and experience perspective.
I needed to figure out how are we going to organize the content including just questions, flashcards, and all the quizzes that could have many variables.
Also, there comes the student rankings, tags, and shared quizzes.
Previous user flow
Medizzy founders previously designed how the learn section will look like. That is the point I was starting from. We had messed up access to stats as well as a long way to get to the quiz. A lot of steps we can easily skip.
From the landing we could only choose the last quizzes or go to categories, from here we choose the type of question and then again a whole journey across categories to get to the quiz we are looking for. Let's fix that!
First idea, Type First
At first, not much difference. I've added a search feature which is not known why it was missing. Also you can access stats from both desktop and mobile in the same way.
Under categories, the priority is quiz type (MCQs, Flashcards/ Library) also now we can easily access our own quizzes. Each type is divided into basic and premium
Second idea, Premium First
Here I put premium as a priority. MCQs and Flashcards are under medizzy basic and premium. The main goal in this flow is to make a conversion. Obviously, that's not a superb idea to promote premium wherever it's possible. It also creates a new problem when users want to study eg. biology and has both free and premium quizzes.
Final
The last idea is a side menu with shared and created by me quizzes, MCQs, flashcards, and the library. On the dashboard, there are the last quizzes, and a preview of the stats
This option allows us to show more recent quizzes as well as quickly preview what was shared with us, encouraging users to use that feature.
Quizzes
Creating a Quiz
When creating the process my main objective was to keep it as simple as possible. No unnecessary inputs, just what the user would expect.
Using a quiz
You have access to quizzes from a learn page, but sometimes questions appear on the main feed.
A quiz can also be shared with you with a link. From Dashboard you can access the last quizzes, stats, and everything else.
Gamification
Another new feature I had the pleasure to work on. We wanted to add some competition to the app, that would encourage users with the knowledge to share it with others.
So, users gain points by doing simple tasks or just being active in the community. The points can be exchanged for a premium version.
Premium
Medizzy also has a premium version, that’s how it makes money.
Premium gives you access to over 32.000 questions that are constantly updated.
Website
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Project Handoff
I was working with a team of developers to properly implement my design and vision.
FIGJAM comes in handy as that’s what we used to clarify everything
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Social
Medizzy main feature was and still is a social platform.
Currently, medizzy gained over 10m all-time users from all over the world.
Medizzy main feature was and still is a social platform.
Currently, medizzy gained over 10m all-time users from all over the world.
Medizzy main feature was and still is a social platform.
Currently, medizzy gained over 10m all-time users from all over the world.
Feed
That's where all the users socialize. Starting from the top we have the menu with our current points, search field, new item button, and some profile settings.
In the center, we have the posts and an easy-access modal for creating a new post, flashcard, MCQ, link, or photo.
On the sides we have navigation that allows us to switch between:- My Feed, the user see only the content he has chosen- Discover, algorithm suggests some new content.
On the other side we can see a latest discussion, popular profiles and flashcards
Filter, add to favorites and read
Content can be filtered by specialty, category, and type. Each post, comment, or quiz can be added to favorites, and then displayed to the user