Lunas Talaan Mobile Application

Lunas Talaan is a thesis project developed alongside two colleagues, a mobile application designed to help users stay on top of their medication schedules and make more informed decisions about where to buy their medicines. The name itself reflects its purpose: lunas (cure/remedy) and talaan (record/list), a record that keeps you on track with your health.

Beyond just setting reminders, the app uses web scrapers to pull real-time medicine prices, giving users the ability to compare costs across pharmacies without having to leave the app. My role in this project went far beyond design — I led the overall development process, handled UI/UX from concept to final screens, managed the team, drove marketing efforts to reach actual users, deployed the app to Amazon Appstore and APKPure, built the promotional website, and produced all supporting documentation including the user manual.

The project went on to place 20th in Appcon 2023's Application Development Competition organized by Otis Japan Inc., and I was awarded Best Research Paper Presenter at IRCITE 2025 for presenting the thesis behind it.

We built Lunas Talaan to close that gap, a mobile app that combines smart scheduling with real-time price awareness, all wrapped in a UI that doesn't require a user manual to navigate.

• Designed a clean, accessible mobile UI tailored for users who may not be highly tech-savvy, applying UX principles to reduce friction in the onboarding and scheduling flows.
• Built a medication scheduling system with customizable reminders, letting users set doses, frequency, and timing with minimal steps.
• Integrated web scrapers to surface real-time medicine prices from local pharmacies, giving users the ability to compare costs and make more affordable choices.
• Developed the app for cross-platform deployment and published it on both the Amazon Appstore and APKPure to maximize accessibility.

Lunas Talaan was the most complete project I had worked on at that point — and the most demanding. Managing the full scope of a thesis project while also being the sole designer meant I had to constantly context-switch between big-picture thinking and pixel-level decisions. That tension pushed me to become a much sharper, more intentional leader and designer.

One of the biggest things this project taught me was how to design with real constraints in mind — limited screen real estate, diverse user literacy levels, and the need to make health-critical information immediately readable. Getting the balance right between functionality and simplicity wasn't easy, but it was one of the most rewarding design challenges I've worked through.

Working across mobile UI also deepened my ability to navigate responsive design thinking. Designing for different device sizes, screen densities, and Android display configurations trained me to think in systems rather than single screens — making sure every layout, component, and interaction felt consistent and intentional no matter the device it landed on.