Pink Frog was hired as a subcontractor to redesign an application that traveling nurse practitioners used out in the filed. Nurses were on a quota and were paid by how many patients they saw a day. Before the nurses visited the patient’s homes they were required to go to the business and collect the medical supplies they would need for each patient they visited. As they used each medical supply they were to charge it to the patient using the software. In addition to restocking the supply room, they also used the interface to purchase products or order products directly for the patients.
While shadowing nurse practitioners in the field, Pink Frog Interactive discovered how the poor usability of software system was costing a pharmeucitical company millions in undocumented inventory loss. In addition, the interface was pulling some fields from the wrong database.
A wireframe prototype was designed and presented to overhaul and improve the application and the usability of the product as a quick short term fix. We also designed a future product to make the nurse’s work in the field effortless by making an invisible interface design and the nurses work invisible using gps location tracking, cameras, weight sensors and bar code scanning.
Author: tamella
Tammy Fritz has over 30 years experience in design. She is an independent contractor and Principal and Founder of Pink Frog Interactive, Inc. Tammy founded Pink Frog in 2005 where she specializes in human-centered design including human computer interface design, design research, customer experience design and service design. Tammy has a passion for combining human factors, design thinking and research, innovation and technology to help solve complex problems.
Tammy has a Masters of Design degree in Communication Planning and Information Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She did her thesis work and worked with the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University studying internationalization in design, way-finding in virtual environments and how to evoke, assess and predict affect in design. Tammy also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a certificate in Specialized Technology from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Her work has won design awards from Intel and AIGA and has been submitted for patents.
Tammy follows a user-centered design process and uses principles and techniques derived from cognitive science, psychology and anthropology to partner with her clients and design and test services, product interfaces and interactions in order to make them efficient, useful, usable and desirable.
At Pink Frog, Tammy has interviewed hundreds of our clients customers across the globe in multiple languages to find out what constitutes an exceptional customer experience, define the customer journey and provide actionable insight for a company roadmap.
Tammy has shadowed nurse practitioners in the field and interviewed users in Jacksonville Mississippi to help redesign applications to order medical supplies. She has redesigned medical insurance websites and designed medical benefit communications to employees. Some of Tammy’s clients have included TE Connectivity (Tyco), Iron Mountain Crozier, Danaher Cytiva, First Insight, Developmental Dimensions International (DDI), and Genco (now FedEx). Tammy has also done design work as a subcontractor for Highmark, McKesson, North Shore Long Island Jewish Center Cancer Institute, Rite Aid, CDC/NIOSH, Martris LLC, and Capital Blue.
Prior to founding Pink Frog, Tammy worked at IT companies design software including NDCHealth and Freemarkets where she worked in multidisciplinary teams within large IT departments to brings the needs of the customer to the process. She has led large-scale ui design efforts in co-branding, branding, workflow, information architecture, and internationalization and worked on sites that were over 4000 prototype pages from the ground up. She has worked on mergers helping companies consolidate functionality of web applications into one seamless user experience and multiple internal applications into one consistent user experiences. She has worked on large scale pharmaceutical applications and has led ethnographic research projects. She has worked through all phases of the human-centered design process.
Tammy volunteers as a foster parent for the Humane Society, secretary for Pennsylvania Association Gifted Education, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Epi-Life.
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