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. 2020 Jul 10;8(7):e17893. doi: 10.2196/17893

Table 1.

Co-design session objectives, methods, and outputs.

Event Objectives Methods (analysis) Outputs
Session 1 (March 27, 2017)
  • Establish MVPa symptom and quality-of-life measures for patients and physicians

  • 2. Establish parameters for MVP use as communication and self-management tool

  • Semistructured focus groups (thematic analysis of flip chart data, notes, transcribed notes)

  • Tool category features: symptoms and activity, red flags/triggers, and guided self-management strategies

  • Summaries, executive summaries

Session 2 (April 18, 2017)
  • Condense potential functional requirements

  • Determine relative importance and define functionality of MVP requirements

  • Explore how functional requirement use by patients and physicians, to improve patient outcomes

  • Semistructured focus groups (member check, initial theming and thematic analysis of flip chart data, notes, transcribed notes)

  • Provisional dot voting (frequency counts used as a provisional prioritization criteria for each group)

  • Categorized tool features

  • Inputs: goal setting, context, symptom tracking, activity tracking, plans/strategies, prognosis prediction (input)

  • Interaction reminders: daily, event-based, periodic outputs; and feedback to patients, physician summary, red flags, prognosis prediction (output)

  • Summaries, executive summaries

Kano presurvey and postsurveys (October 1, 2017 and October 5, 2018)
  • Determine how stakeholders (patients, physicians, researchers, and decision makers) rated functional requirements by importance and convenience before and after group introduction and review of MVP

  • Mean (SD) importance score by participant group and all respondents, frequency count by category and participant group)

  • Convenience scores (reported by participant group, frequency count by category and participant group)

  • Quantified importance/convenience scores for functional requirements

  • Thematic analysis of qualitative comments by group (if required)

Session 3 (October 3, 2018)
  • To review MVP appearance (wireframes) and mock function, and provide feedback on functional requirements for design iteration with development team and gather a definitive prioritization and ranking of functional requirements for inclusion in the final MVP using dot voting

  • Semistructured focus group discussion (member check, initial theming and thematic analysis of notes: main take-aways)

  • Dot voting (frequency counts/range on task 1: must-have, won’t-have prioritization and task 2: desirability and actionability prioritization, reported by participant group and all respondents)

  • Must-have, won’t-have dot voting results by participant group and for all respondents, for each functional requirement

  • Desirability and actionability dot voting results, by participant group, all respondents, for each functional requirement

aMVP: minimum viable product.