Bronze ADC Cube Award Winner: Readyset enhances elderly's medication experience

Readyset is designed by a group of Year 3 Communication Design students (Lok Ngai Lego Lam, Ping Ting Lee, Man Yin Chan and Rachel Yin) to facilitate better medication administration and experience for elderly.  The pen shape design is highly portable, as well as very versatile for storing and stacking circular tablets while not wasting space like any rectangular shape. It is a good idea to integrate the pen mechanism into taking drugs as well.

With its emphasis on convenience and portability, the design title comes from the phrase “Ready, Set, Go!” in sports events by which the designers hope to connect the products to the consumers with the ready-to-go feature.

This health communication design for elderly won a Bronze ADC Cube Award which the design ceremony held and announced by The One Club for Creativity, an international design competition, in New York in early May.

Congratulations to the team and their supervising tutor Mr. Brian Kwok!

The design of Readyset is attempted to achieve the following features:

1. Hygiene

In order to achieve the goal of hygienic drug taking action, the team have developed the pen-like mechanism - Readyset, allowing the elderly does not need to have direct contact of the flesh with the pills. The Readyset can eliminate the chance of contaminating the pills with bare hands, as well as allowing the elderly to take the medication easily on the go.

2. Organiser

Readyset is designed to unify different pills into one single column, allowing the elderly to organize medication easily and reducing the required storage space in a household environment. The label attached on the pen-like device extract the most considering information based on the result that the team collected from the user tests.

3. Customizable

Readyset provides various materials and colorways for the elderly to choose based on their preference, to create a personalized drug-taking experience. Also for the identification ring on the pen, the customizable feature, on one hand, allow customers to choose the color they like, as well as allowing them to differentiate their pen within a household area.

4. Portable

The lightweight and small-size design aim to provide a better drug-taking experience when the elderly is commuting. The design allows them easing with all procedures required in traditional medication.