IDEO and PillPack redefine how customers engage with their pharmacy.

IDEO and PillPack redefine how customers engage with their pharmacy.

Whether you’re living with chronic pain, recovering from an acute illness, or aging gracefully—obtaining and managing medication is often a bigger pain than the diagnosis itself. PillPack eases that pain by replacing the traditional pharmacy with a fast, simple home-delivery service.

PillPack pre-sorts your prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, and vitamins into personalized packets, organized by date and time. This makes it easy to take the right meds at the right hour, either at home or on the go. Each 14-day supply of medication fits neatly into a recyclable dispenser with a label that includes an image of each pill.

”As a young company, working with IDEO helped us establish a design-centric culture that put our customers at the center of everything we do. It’s impacted the way that we approach everything from product development to brand positioning.” – TJ Parker, PIllPack CEO

PillPack is the second startup-in-residency to work with IDEO Boston. Company founders Elliot Cohen and TJ Parker joined forces with the design team to redefine how consumers engage with their pharmacy. The collaboration focused on making sure that every moment customers interact with PillPack, from signing up for the service online to using its product daily, was straightforward and reassuring.

Whether you’re living with chronic pain, recovering from an acute illness, or aging gracefully—obtaining and managing medication is often a bigger pain than the diagnosis itself. PillPack eases that pain by replacing the traditional pharmacy with a fast, simple home-delivery service.

PillPack pre-sorts your prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, and vitamins into personalized packets, organized by date and time. This makes it easy to take the right meds at the right hour, either at home or on the go. Each 14-day supply of medication fits neatly into a recyclable dispenser with a label that includes an image of each pill.

Every two weeks, a shipment from PillPack’s pharmacy in New Hampshire arrives at your doorstep, along with any changes or new instructions. Its pharmacists coordinate your refills for you and are available via phone or email anytime to answer questions.

”[PillPack] is disrupting a huge market with a product that solves a giant problem for 30 million Americans”. – Lucy McQuilken, investor

PillPack is the second startup-in-residency to work with IDEO Boston. Company founders Elliot Cohen and TJ Parker joined forces with the design team to redefine how consumers engage with their pharmacy. The collaboration focused on making sure that every moment customers interact with PillPack, from signing up for the service online to using its product daily, was straightforward and reassuring.

”We came to IDEO to garner a better understanding of the most important touch points, so that we could make each of those moments exceptional.” – TJ Parker, PillPack CEO

After raising its first round of venture funding, PillPack moved into IDEO’s Boston studio for a three-month residency. Together we designed the most critical aspects of its customer experience. We worked on refining the company’s brand vision, strategy, and identity across channels and used this framework to completely redesign PillPack’s website and private dashboard for logged-in customers. Cohen and Parker left IDEO with a strong understanding of their customers, a well-articulated product and service, and a human-centered approach to improving consumer healthcare.

PillPack launched its service in February 2014. In the coming months, the company plans to release additional work done in collaboration with IDEO.