How I redesigned a blood sugar management app into a family-centered health companion.
Dangpro is a digital healthcare app built with Daesang, Korea’s leading food and wellness company. As the founding product designer, I led the product from scratch - shaping the system logic, UX flows, and design strategy. The challenge: rebuild diabetes care from fragmented tracking into a closed loop of data, action, reward, and family support.
Within months, the app reached 100,000+ downloads, positioning Daesang as a digital health innovator.
TIMELINE
5 months
(2023-2024)
ROLE
Founding Product designer
COLLABORATORS
Product Manager, Front/Back-end developer
COMPANY
Wala ICT (Client project from Daesang well life)
Overview
What is Dangpro?
Danpro is a comprehensive mobile application designed to empower diabetic patients and family altogether.
Why?
From food giant to healthcare innovator: why Daesang Inc entered digital health?
With 60 years in food and wellness, Daesang faced a new frontier: 6M diabetic and 15M pre-diabetic Koreans needed better daily care. Tracking alone wasn’t working - it was time to design healthcare as a lifestyle system.
Problem
Why traditional tracking didn’t work
Patients logged numbers, but nothing changed. Families wanted to help, but had no structured role. Lifestyle guidance existed, but felt too generic.
This created a broken loop - effort went in, but behavior didn’t change
Problem
Why traditional tracking didn’t work
Patients logged numbers, but nothing changed. Families wanted to help, but had no structured role. Lifestyle guidance existed, but felt too generic.
This created a broken loop - effort went in, but behavior didn’t change