Simplifying Glucosee Apps: Enhancing Usability and Accessibility for Older Adults

Abstract

This application aims to redesign the Glucosee, a mobile application to make it more user-friendly, particularly for elderly users. The approach emphasizes simplifying the user interface to improve usability, enhancing the user experience through a more intuitive and efficient flow, and providing features such as clearer blood sugar data visualization and practical information-sharing functionality with medical professionals. Ultimately, this application is expected to help improve the quality of life for elderly individuals with diabetes in Indonesia while also delivering more accurate data to support medical decision-making. This research adopts a human-centered design approach. The process begins with a needs analysis to understand the challenges faced by elderly users in utilizing technology. Subsequently, a prototype of the application is developed, focusing on ease of access and accessibility. This prototype is then tested with elderly users to gather feedback that can be used to refine the design. This iterative process ensures that the solution effectively meets the users' needs. The outcomes of this application are expected to demonstrate that the redesigned Glucosee application significantly improves usability and accessibility for elderly users. The developed prototype will facilitate blood sugar tracking, present data in more understandable visual formats, and provide practical data-sharing functions with medical professionals. These results are anticipated to not only assist users in managing their health but also positively impact their overall quality of life.

Keywords: Glucosee, elderly, accessibility, diabetes, application, prototype

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/116-04

Publication date: June 30th 2026