PCOS app: Ova
User Experience
Student Project
2026
OVERVIEW
Ova is a personalised app designed to support young women with PCOS. It helps users track symptoms, understand hormonal patterns, and manage their condition day to day through tailored insights, diet and movement guidance, and medication reminders.
Challenge
Existing PCOS apps often focus on symptom tracking but fail to help users understand or manage the information meaningfully. The challenge was to translate complex, clinical data into a clear and supportive experience that feels usable in everyday life. It was also important to address both the physical and emotional impact of PCOS, creating something that reduces confusion and anxiety rather than adding to it.
Solution
I designed Ova to support understanding and management of PCOS through more than just tracking, offering insights and daily guidance.
The app connects symptoms and cycle phases to provide clear management advice. Key features include:
cycle and symptom tracking with personalised insights
tailored diet and activity recommendations
medication reminders.
RESEARCH
User research involved interviews with women with PCOS to understand how the condition affects their daily lives, which informed the development of a user persona.
Findings showed users experience mood and energy fluctuations, uncertainty around what is “normal,” and often rely on social media for support due to overwhelming or contradictory clinical information.
A key insight was that users don’t just want to track symptoms, but understand why they change and how to manage them, shaping the app towards clarity and supportive guidance.
DESIGN
The design aims to create a seamless user experience allowing them to understand and manage their symptoms. Sketches were created to examine layout and navigation through all flows of the app.
Iterating upon these sketches, wireframes were made allowing me to identify sections where users may become overwhelmed.
The final design uses clear structure, modular components, and progressive disclosure to present the information in a format that feels manageable instead of overwhelming for
the user.
