Urine Dip Strip Reader
My Role
Product & Experience Designer
My Team
Solo project, with clinician advisors
Tools
SolidWorks, KeyShot, Adobe Illustrator, Sketching
Deliverables
User research, personas, journey map, form exploration, CAD, branding
Duration
Under Graduation Degree Project at
Indian Institute of Technology Bomabay
Outcome
Patented device design + registered brand identity
UriDSA
Diagnostics, in one hand
I designed a portable urine dip strip analyser for Indian hospitals, labs and home care — turning a bench-bound, expensive test into a one-tray, one-button device. The design is protected by 1 design patent and 2 trademarks.
PROTECTED WORK
One design patent, two trademarks
The device form and the UriDSA identity are registered in India. Each card carries its registration details and links to the certificate.
DESIGN PATENT
UriDSA device design
Indian Design Registration
Reg. No. 314686-001
Class: medical & laboratory instruments
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TRADEMARK
UriDSA wordmark
Registered word mark for the product name, used across device, packaging and collateral.
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TRADEMARK
UriDSA logotype
Registered device mark — the navy logotype with the red dot and baseline rule.
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In a rush?
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What did I find?
The rulebook keeps moving
Existing analysers are heavy, immobile, hard to operate, costly and rarely available — so most testing stays manual and inconsistent.
What did I do?
One system, fourteen journeys
Designed UriDSA, a point-of-care urine dip strip analyser for Indian hospitals, pathology labs and home patients.
Why did I choose this problem?
Insurance for the other 96%
Urine tests are among the most common diagnostics in India, yet the tooling had never been designed for the people running them.
What did I build?
One system, fourteen modules
A single-hand, tray-loaded analyser with a five-step workflow and a registered brand identity — 1 design patent, 2 trademarks.
BEFORE URIDSA
Urine analysis in most Indian hospitals and labs still runs on bench-bound machines: heavy, fixed to one room, expensive to buy and awkward to operate. Where no machine exists, strips are read by eye against a printed chart — so results shift between technicians and between visits.
What users complained about
HEAVY
NOT MOVABLE
HARD TO USE
COSTLY
RARELY AVAILABLE
READ BY EYE
6 REASONS THE MACHINE GOES UNUSED
Who It Is For
The people
running the test
UriDSA is used by four groups across private and government settings, all running the same dip strip test with very different levels of training and equipment:
Pathology Lab
PATHOLOGY LAB
50% of tests
DOCTORS
25% of tests
HOUSE NURSE
16.7% of tests
SELF / PATIENT
8.3% of tests
Lab technicians
run high volumes and need results that hold up between shifts
Doctors
read a result at the bedside and decide treatment in the same visit
House nurses
test in the patient's home, often with no lab equipment at all
Patients at home
track recovery or a pregnancy test without travelling to a lab
Lab supervisors
need consistency across technicians, not just per test
Rural clinics
have no bench-top analyser and rely on reading strips by eye
My focus:
I designed for the pathology lab technician first — the highest-volume user, and the one whose results everyone else depends on. Every decision, from the single-hand grip to the tray that loads the strip without touching the pads, came from watching that job done fifty times a day.
Who It Is For
Where tests happen,
and who runs them
I interviewed practitioners and compiled where tests are conducted, by whom, and for what purpose. Pathology labs run the largest share; half of all tests are performed by lab workers.
Test data by place, profession and purpose.
Personas built from the interviews and used throughout development.
AFTER URIDSA
The design brief came straight out of those five complaints. UriDSA is light enough to carry, loads a strip on a tray instead of by hand, reads the pads itself, and costs a fraction of a bench-top analyser so the same test runs the same way in a lab, at a bedside, or at home.
Criteria met
LIGHT WEIGHT
MOVABLE
LESS WORK
USES A TRAY
AFFORDABLE
ONE-HAND GRIP
ALL 5 CRITERIA MET IN ONE DEVICE
Lab Assistant
Take Urine Sample
Lab work
Test Strip
Put drops on the test strip
Slide and read
Slide the strip into tray
Readings
Slide the strip into tray
Report
Report
Report
Report
Report
Give the report
Report
Give the report
IDEATIONIDEATION
Five directions,
one survivor
The final form kept the soft over-moulded grip and the horizontal tray, and dropped the colour-blocked shells that read consumer rather than clinical.
THE OUTCOME
UriDSA,
in use
The strip loads flat into the tray — the pads are never touched.
Sits on a bench or travels in a bag; one device for lab and home visit.
IMPACT IT MADE
What the work
produced
1
Indian design patent granted — Reg. No. 314686-001
2
Registered trademarks: wordmark and logotype
5
Steps in the end-to-end test workflow, down from a multi-instrument process
3
User groups served by one device: doctors, house nurses, lab workers
IDENTITY
A logotype
worth registering
The mark ties the ligature of “URi” to the red dot of a reagent drop — legible at the 12 mm width available on the device housing.
Logotype explorations.
Finalised mark — now a registered trademark.