Design Principles for Elderly-Oriented Products

LemonBox offers personalized vitamin services to 5 million customers, who are generally 25 to 35-year-old professionals in first-tier cities with high education level and high income.

Therefore, LemonBox hope to simplify your health journey with scientifically pure products and world-leading customized services, accompanying your daily wellness journey. By 2024, LemonBox has supported over 5 million customers in their nutrition journey.

Industry-Acamedia Collaboration Project
June — Aug. 2022

Collaboration

8 UX Researchers, Design Principle Team

Skills & Tools

Desktop Research
Contextual Inquiry
Interview
Survey
TAM (Technology Acceptance Model)
Card Sorting
Design Principles

RESEARCH GOAL

How might we bridge the digital divide for the "silver generation" and provide age-friendly design suggestions?

METHOD

Why usability for the ordering flows?

#1 Complex flows (flow + personalzied vitamin)
Users complain about

Silver Generation: 76 older people in China that aged 50+ years old and use digital products

Desktop Research

Understanding environmental context (policy, society, economics, and technology)

Contextual Inquiry

Understand the behavior process and internal logic of the older people in real use scenarios

Interview

Explore the specific behavior status, ideas, and needs of the older people in using digital products

Survey

Collect data on the living conditions, digital product usage experience and needs of older people

THEORETICAL MODEL

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Investigating the design of elderly-oriented digital products is to fundamentally study which factors influence the elderly's decision to use digital technology. Therefore, we chose TAM as the theoretical basis, , as it offers a robust framework to systematically examine the key factors.

RESEARCH FRAMEWORK

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

MY CONTRIBUTION

As a UX researcher in Design Principle Team, I translated pains & needs into actionable design guidelines and authored final report.

IMPACT

Warm Silver Generation: Bluebook on Research of Elderly-Oriented Digital Products

The final report, Warm Silver Generation: Bluebook on Research of Elderly-Oriented Digital Products, was jointly published on 2022 Alibaba U Design Week, receiving 5000+ online views and industry recognition.

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