Small Wins
Two connected users of the same recovery — the survivor and the caregiver.
Stroke recovery moves into the home and lands on two people at once. Small Wins turns dozens of disconnected PT, OT, speech, and vision recommendations into consistent, encouraging daily routines — and treats caregiver burnout as a first-class concern, not free infrastructure.
Existing tools serve one person and forget the other.
Leaves the hospital with dozens of disconnected recommendations and no daily structure to hold them.
Inherits scheduling, tracking, advocacy, and the emotional load — with no support of their own.
The Welcome screen forks — and the whole app follows.
Survivor and caregiver enter through their own doors, and the app is built around that split — same recovery data, two emotional registers (“Daily Steps” for the survivor, “Today’s Win” for the caregiver).
Therapy-focus onboarding → a Daily Habits Builder → goal setting with milestones → a “Daily Steps” home that’s one tap to log progress, with streaks and affirmations. Passive and encouraging, never nagging.
Their own door — they can set up before the survivor is ready — plus a Care Plan Editor, Journal, Care Circle for delegation, weekly summaries, and the centerpiece: a Burnout Check-In with support topics from communication to medical advocacy.
Designed for someone whose body just changed.
A stroke can affect vision, motor control, and cognition — so accessibility wasn’t a pass at the end, it was the starting constraint: large tap targets, minimal scrolling, simplified dashboards, and optional audio playback. I worked in 25+ grayscale wireframes to keep the focus on usability before any styling.
Treat the caregiver as a user, not as free infrastructure.
In one week the sprint produced a full-featured MVP framework — a dual-persona system where the same recovery data speaks in two emotional registers, and where caregiver burnout is something the product actually tracks. It’s headed toward a testing plan for clinical outcomes and provider conversations.
Early feedback from healthcare designers has been positive, but no outcomes are measured yet — so I don’t quote numbers.