Individuals newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes often face a multitude of challenges, including feelings of overwhelm, uncertainty about dietary and lifestyle changes, and the need to monitor various health metrics. Diabeat aims to address these challenges by providing an informative and supportive website platform.

As I delved into the project I started with just imagining what it could look like and feel like to get diagnosed with diabetes. I could only imagine the overwhelm and uncertainty. There must be a million of questions and now this great uncertainty on how you should manage their condition.
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This is were Diabeat comes in. With its informative dashboard it offers guidance and support through user-friendly features such as educational resources, tips for managing diabetes, and an onboarding process that provides clarity on what to expect and how to navigate the platform.

Monitoring Health Metrics: Tracking health metrics such as waist circumference, sleep patterns, blood pressure, blood glucose levels, and macronutrient intake is crucial for managing type 2 diabetes. Diabeat's dashboard allows users to log and track these metrics over time, providing a comprehensive overview of their health status. The app logs all data and interacts with your logs and continually gives you personalized feedback. This way the user can gain control and manage their symptoms and treatments.

Visualizations and personalized goal tracking features help users monitor their progress and stay motivated to make healthy lifestyle changes.

Goal Setting and Progress Tracking: Setting goals and tracking progress is key to managing type 2 diabetes effectively. Diabeat enables users to set personalized health goals and track their progress towards achieving them. For example, users can set goals for waist circumference, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels, and the dashboard provides visual feedback on their progress towards these goals. Additionally, users can receive reminders and notifications to stay on track with their goals and appointments.By addressing these challenges and providing informative and supportive features, Diabeat's website dashboard empowers individuals newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes to take control of their health and make informed decisions about their care.

I did a competitive analysis to see what most of the users use for managing their diabetes, and I found that most people use either MySugr or DiabetesM. They both re great apps and helps the user manage their diabetes really well with its many features like for eg. Bolus calculator, blood sugar reminders and logbooks and so many more useful features.
But as I was thinking and empathizing, just imagining someone who newly got diagnosed with diabetes type 2, or just someone who doesn’t have any idea of all these new things they now need to keep track of, I find that both apps lack knowledge on the disease itself and a guide that explains the lifestyle of people with diabetes and what now will be important. The features are there but there are no place for the new diabetic users to gain more knowledge on his or her condition in these apps.
Their doctor will probably go through this steps and I’m sure most people would Google search out everything they can and need to find BUT, I would have loved to see a gathering of information and a simple quick guide that explains the steps that needs to be taken. As well as what everything is and means for someone who doesn’t know anything about diabetes and it’s treatments. I can empathize with people that get this diagnose and not have a clue how overwhelmed and anxious they must feel, especially at the beginning so having one place where they can turn to to read about the topic and as well connect with others who just got diagnosed would be essential and comforting. Like a community where people could write questions, thoughts or just vent out their emotions. It would also help newly diagnosed people to get their questions answered and comforted to see that they are not alone.

Another thing I liked that the MySugr app has was a game feature, it made it more fun to log data when you got points. MySugr also had a more modern feel to it, that still could get some improvements whilst the DiabetesM app had many great and important features in their basic free plan which was better in a way, but the app wasn’t as “fun”. So these are some things I would definetely think of and include in my design. To combine the most important features like for eg. reminders for checking of glycemic index, blood sugar levels tracker with reminder, Insulin Bolus advisor, personalized logging, overview progress report, estimated HbA1c, PDF/Excel reports, secure data backup, community forums with ability to DM, food database that calculates the amount of sugar, carbs and nutrition. In that way the app does more for you and helps you manage your diabetes really well and helps you get assured that you are taking care of your health in the best way possible.I also think it would be better to allow the apps features to be totally free to everyone and let it cost a one time cost at download, instead of paying monthly. To pay monthly will become very expensive in the end and in my opinion I don’t think that is fair in this kind of situation concerning your health, because no one wants to get diagnosed with diabetes in the first place.