Elise Bushnell

06 · Digital Product · 2025

Immune Forecast

A health-tracking concept designed to help people understand patterns, flare risk, and changes over time without overwhelming them with raw data.

Immune Forecast Today screenImmune Forecast History screenImmune Forecast Patterns screen

Role

Concept · Product Design · Interaction Design · Development

Tools

React Native · Expo · Local Storage

Format

Independent Mobile Product

01 · Problem

Health data is easy to collect and hard to interpret

Symptom tracking often produces long lists of isolated entries. Immune Forecast began with a simpler question: how could daily observations become a clearer picture of change, pressure, and patterns over time?

Manual symptom notes used before Immune Forecast
Early Immune Forecast flare logging interface

02 · System

Turning daily inputs into something interpretable

The system moves from daily logging to pattern detection, then translates those patterns into plain-language interpretation and useful next steps. The goal is not diagnosis, but helping users see relationships that are difficult to recognize across scattered notes.

Immune Forecast system model from daily logs to pattern detection, interpretation, and action

03 · Core Experience

Three views for tracking, reflection, and anticipation

Today keeps logging lightweight, History makes past entries legible, and Patterns turns recurring signals into a forward-looking view. Together, the three screens move from capture to understanding without requiring users to interpret dense health data themselves.

Immune Forecast Today screenImmune Forecast History screenImmune Forecast Patterns screen

04 · Flare Tracking

Separating flare events from everyday body load

Flare logging captures intensity, symptoms, possible triggers, and what the user is doing to help. Keeping flare events distinct from baseline daily logs makes it easier to compare acute episodes with the conditions surrounding them.

Earlier Immune Forecast flare logging screenRefined Immune Forecast flare logging screen

05 · Interpretation

Communicating risk without pretending to diagnose

Forecast states use simple language, a visible flare-risk score, and a restrained color system to communicate relative immune pressure. The language stays explicitly non-diagnostic while still helping users understand when their recent patterns may warrant more care or rest.

Immune Forecast low immune pressure state
Immune Forecast pressure color system

06 · Doctor Summary

Making tracking useful in a clinical conversation

The Doctor Summary condenses recent logs, flare frequency, common symptoms, recurring triggers, and typical daily body load into a format that can support an appointment without requiring the user to reconstruct weeks of symptoms from memory.

Immune Forecast doctor visit summary
Immune Forecast prompt for generating a doctor visit summary

07 · Build

Keeping the prototype private and lightweight

I built the prototype in React Native with Expo and used local storage rather than a cloud backend. This kept the system simple while supporting the core interaction model and maintaining a privacy-conscious product direction.

08 · Final

A calmer way to understand health patterns over time.

Final Immune Forecast Today screenFinal Immune Forecast History screenFinal Immune Forecast Patterns screenFinal Immune Forecast Doctor Summary

Reflection

Immune Forecast pushed me to think carefully about how complex and sensitive information can be translated into something readable, calm, and useful. It reinforced my interest in designing systems that help people make sense of information rather than simply collect more of it.