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The maker of this video seems to have recorded his screen and then placed the video in a phone mockup. It is also in the middle of a normal computer screen format, with white space either side of the phone.

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Using a phone to frame the screen, it’s in a normal format so has white space either side of the phone. There’s no touch icon to show where has been clicked, but due to the nature of the video, it’s very clear.

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Charity brands to look at their type and styling.

A lot of these use handwritten type, this makes it more personal and friendly. Making it seem like it has been made for that person is a common styling through a lot of charity branding.

I will look at handwritten fonts to see if any look appropriate to my app.

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Macmillian Cancer Support styling. 

Though lower case is considered more friendly, because of their bubble font upper case works just as well and it probably more easily readable.

They use organic shapes and marks to make a manmade look. This aesthetic styling feels more personal, like it has been made for that individual person.  

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Different ways hospitals can make their patients happier.

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This CF patient creates little people models to hide around her hospital room to liven up the room, give her something to do and make a game for the staff and visitors that come into her room.

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This article is written by Susan, she writes about room decor and functional ways to improve a space. After her daughter was in hospital for 4 days she wrote about ways she could see cheap and simple improvements for the decor of the rooms, to help soothe, comfort and entertain the patients.

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“british designer morag myerscough has created a series of bold and bright bespoke bedrooms for sheffield children’s hospital, transforming patient spaces into artistic tableaus. four schemes are rotated throughout 46 en-suite bedrooms and six multi occupancy bays, including a paler color palette designed for children who have conditions such as autism. ‘although the rooms are for children, I didn’t want them to be childish because children of all different age groups will be staying in them’ myerscough explains. ‘I also wanted to create somewhere parents would be happy to spend time too. it was just about making a bedroom that you felt good to be in’.”

I would like to find a way of taking my app design out of the phone and taking it into the rooms. I was recommended to look at this designer as she has worked on hospital interiors before. Her work is bold and colourful, it makes the hospital look less daunting and personalised. I would love to work out a way to get personality and colour into the rooms for the Southampton C5 ward.

I could do a colour scheme the same as my app design or tv screens on the wall where you can video chat others and sync up to watch the same movie or listen to the same music. It would also be really nice to be able to send photos to the room screens so that you can have photos on the walls so you feel closer to your friends and family and less isolated in this one hospital room.

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1970′s sitcom about life as a patient in hospital. The theme song is quite amusing.

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Talk about the importance of technology in the health industry. It is underused and it would be incredibly beneficial. This was a talk from 2014, and though I have seen improvements in using technology since then, it is still shocking how little tech is used in the health industry, but doctors, nurses and physiotherapists.

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This website gives some good information about what to think about when wanting to create an app.

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These images are more specific to CF in-patient life.

You will constantly have a cannula, picc line, or portacath in, they can hurt, they can itch, they can get infected, they feel the temperature of the medicine and you can feel the medicine running through your body.

Propping your arm, in which your IV line is placed in, upon a pillow is very common. It allows you to keep it safe and out of the way while sleeping. This does mean however that you are always very conscious of your arm, turning in your sleep wakes you up and it can often get quite cold, due to the lack of blanket and poor circulation.

As Cf patients are admitted to hospital for a minimum of 2 weeks, we crave the normality of home things, such as snuggling with your partner or parent. This then has to be substituted with sharing a single hospital bed where you spend most of your hours. It can be uncomfortable and tight, but it makes you feel better.

The rest of the time, when you’re alone, will be the view of your own feet, the end of the bed and a wall. In an isolated room, the only type of entertainment you get is digital and the only human interactions are with doctors nurses and when you get visitors. It is lonely, boring, upsetting and frustrating.

This image is so iconic to me, sitting propped up like a healthy person on a nicely made bed speaking to a member of staff sitting lower down then you on an uncomfortable plastic chair. The idea of the patient looking nice, healthy, put together, organised and tidy is not what you expect when you think of a doctor doing their rounds to see the patients, but often this is how it is for me when I’m in the hospital. It makes the experience more surreal and though I’m used to it, I do still find this weird. Feeling happy and healthy while sitting in an isolated room, on a hospital bed, with all the machines around me but not attached to me and my stuff still in bags because there is nowhere to unpack. (Why is that? On a ward that was purpose-built to be for Cf patients, why is there little to no space to unpack your stuff???)

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Generic things for a hospital stay, these become so normal to a CF patient.

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Aesthetic of a hospital.

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Hospital food. After looking at the previously cooked breakfast, this doesn’t feel the same, but this is the reality. Cf patients get the same sucky food as everyone else and we have to eat it for 2 weeks straight minimum. However, at Southampton hospital, there is also a special CF menu we can order from 24 hours of the day and it includes a lot more high-calorie foods.

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Though this is showing a preschooler’s breakfast, it doesn’t change much later in life. I used to live right next to my primary school and would come home at lunch to have a full cooked meal to get in the extra calories for the day. Now later on in life, I spread my calorie intake more evenly, but the ideal would still to have this big meal for breakfast.

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The other side to our lives, we live almost double lives and sometimes that can be great, we can hide the CF quite easily if we want to, but it can be bad as we also have to have the second side and others will never really understand everything we go through, think about and have to deal with.