Omnipod first impressions
Just started. I'm an old computer software designer so I thought this would be easy. Nope. I expected a prioritized set of like THREE dead-simple descriptive large bold buttons. Like "ATE FOOD" "GIMME A SHOT ANYWAY" "SHOW SUGAR". Three dang obvious buttons for the main functions. Large buttons for those of us with fuzzy eyesight. Nope. Nothing of the sort. The complete opposite, actually. Each button would take us to ONE STATIC PAGE that doesn't flash, slide beep, scroll, add purple margins, or bring up other dialogs. No surprises. MAYBE an advanced mode that also brings up check boxes, unintelligible icons that are actually buttons, long scrolling lists of 3 point items to check off, etc, etc, etc, just in case Einstein comes back to life and needs insulin. For the rest of us, all this default complexity just leads to confusion, frustration, sidepaths, delays, errors, and wanting to throw this expensive gadget against the wall. As it is each page is a surprise-- different boxes, different layouts, different paradigms, and all too small for convenient reading for anyone over age 30. I'm sure you hired the best medical and software experts that slaved for years to pack so many features, tricks, algorithms, nuances, and displays. The best of MIT if not also Harvard. Problem is, your end user is an aging, slightly forgetful, fuzzy-eyed just average IQ person. We can handle maybe THREE LARGE BUTTONS WITH BRIEF ACTION LABELS. ONE STATIC PAGE. This isn't rocket science most of the time. It needn't be a surprising mish-mash with action buttons scattered all over several different pages. If you are so happy with the NASA central look, fine. But how about a AVERAGE JOE MODE with one page, three buttons, and no fancy and fuzzy stuff? I haven't thrown it against the wall yet but it's been close several times. I could land on the Moon with less trouble.