The control of diabetes depends on a regimen of insulin injections and dietary and lifestyle monitoring.
In early childhood this control must be administered by the parents, and in adulthood it must be self-administered. But self-monitoring during the emotional phases of adolescence is particularly problematic.

So evaluating all the potential user categories and interviewing diabetic patients I aimed this project specifically at teenagers.

Teenagers (14-18 years old) who already know how to manage their diabetes but they still make a lot of mistakes. They are emotionally unstable, interested in new tech and they are music lovers, looking at it as an escape from the real world. Stakeholders are basically the families’children and their doctors and nurses.

PERSONAS/ I created three personas to understand in what ways TuneUp could affect and find a place into the users’ everyday life:

Personality: angry with the world; grumpy; solitary person; lazy.

Loves: dance in her room when nobody looks at her; sleep with open-windows; rock and indie music; comics: she draws comics in her notebook that always bring with her; sunglasses even in winter.

Hates: when someone says she is nervous because of her glicemia; wear wool-sweater; put solar-cream at the beach.

Personality: happy; altruistic; brilliant: model student; vegetarian.

Loves: play piano (she loves violin but it may “cut” her fingertips and cause problem when testing BG levels); eat pizza and french fries; telling fairy-tales to her little sister; make-up and coloreful nails polish.

Hates: her inability to say no when one asks for a candy (she needs them in case of hypoglicemia); arrogance.

Personality: shy; nerdy; sometimes he feels so happy other so depressed.

Loves: play guitar (that’s why he uses a CGM); go to concert; ride in the montain; earl-grey tea with 3 spoons of sugar; eat bread with tomato sauce.

Hates: when someone asks “what’s that wire for?” (he’s an insulin pump user); visit to the doctor; broccoli.