Danica Koller (IDEA Grad 2020) wins 2020 RGD Zync Award of Excellence for Concept Development with ‘Ellie’ Alzheimer's App Design
Congratulations to Danica Koller (IDEA Grad 2020) for winning the 2020 RGD Zync Award of Excellence for Concept Development with ‘Ellie’ Alzheimer's App. Danica's project also gained RGD's Awards Of Specialty BOLD Awards for Accessible Design Honourable Mention.
“Ellie is a multi-device app for caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients to track the symptoms and development of the disease. The caregiver can enter all the data and observations into the app to have all the important information on hand.
Ellie assists people living with Alzheimer’s disease, reassures caregivers, makes daily tasks easier, and helps identify behavioural and mental patterns.”
Ellie is a two-platform app that works together to help ease the uncertainties of Alzheimer’s disease while simultaneously reassuring primary caregivers.
Educator Support: Leanna Crawford and Mark Stokoe
Having come from a clearly personal experience, there is a level of knowledge that has helped this person understand what caregiver's really need and what patients go through on a daily basis. From calming colours to navigation, these have been very well-considered and executed. - Pia Nummi, Design Director at Canada Goose, Toronto
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For all the 2020 RGD Awards of Excellence winners, see rgd.ca.
For more on Danica, see danicakoller.com.
