GlowUp Eye Care

Context

Children now spend long hours on close-focus digital tasks, while early signs of visual strain and oculomotor difficulty often go unnoticed. This project explored how design can make therapeutic eye exercises more engaging and easier to sustain.

Challenge

• Design for children while balancing clinical goals, safety, and attention span.
• Translate specialist eye-movement exercises into interactions that feel intuitive.
• Create a flow that helps caregivers track consistency and progress over time.

Interviews and desk research highlighted the adherence gap: families are usually given exercise instructions, but little support for motivation, pacing, or confidence that they are doing it right. The strongest opportunity was to combine guidance, feedback, and play in one structured experience.

Solution Direction

GlowUp Eye Care was framed as a guided XR exercise system with short, focused sessions that train tracking, focus-shifting, and eye-hand coordination. Difficulty was designed to ramp gradually, keeping sessions approachable while still reinforcing therapeutic motion patterns.

• Game-like tasks aligned to specific visual movement goals.
• Session structure designed around child attention limits.
• Caregiver-facing summaries to support continuity at home.

Outcomes

• Defined a clear design strategy for child-friendly, therapy-adjacent interaction design.
• Built stronger fluency in designing for healthcare, families, and developmental variability.
• Validated that engagement design is critical to therapeutic consistency.