Co-Design and Rapid Prototyping with Pathverse App Builder
Design your mHealth app with participants, and change it the same day.
Build working app and web prototypes with Pathverse, no coding required. Test with the people who will use them, then turn their feedback into the next version without a developer or a new app store release.
What Is Co-Design and Rapid Prototyping in mHealth, and Why Does It Matter?
Co-design brings researchers, participants, and partners together to shape mobile health (mHealth) tools around users’ needs. Rapid prototyping turns their ideas into interactive app experiences that can be tested and refined through feedback. Together, these approaches help researchers identify usability barriers early, improve relevance to daily life, and refine interventions before investing in a larger study.
Why Co-Design with Pathverse?
Turn ideas into working app and web prototypes without coding. Use drag-and-drop tools to combine lessons, surveys, cognitive assessments, goal setting, self-monitoring, forums, reminders, and wearable data collection. Test with participants and research partners, refine your design through feedback, and move from prototype to pilot study on the same platform. See full list of Pathverse App Builder features here.
Build, test, refine. Repeat as often as you need.
With custom-coded apps, each round of feedback waits on a developer. In Pathverse, the research team makes the change, so a co-design session can lead to a new version before the next one.
Researchers can select the app features (e.g., goal setting, forum, self-monitoring tools) needed for their study.
"This lesson is too long."
"I'd rather watch than read."
"The questions confused me."
"Too many notifications."
"I'd use a goal tracker."
"It doesn't feel like it's for us."
Split, shorten or reorder content cards by dragging them.
Swap text for full-screen video, images or a quiz.
Reword items or change the answer type, from multiple choice to a slider.
Adjust timing, release conditions and push messages.
Turn features on or off from the feature library: goals, trackers, forum.
Change the theme colour, header images and language.
Refine Content, Features, and Delivery Without Coding
From the first workshop to the pilot trial
Real prototypes in sessions
Bring a working app to focus groups and think-aloud interviews, so feedback is about the real experience.
Usage tracking
See module completion and response rates alongside what participants tell you.
Researchers own the build
The team that runs the sessions makes the changes, so nothing is lost passing notes to a developer.
Works in a web browser too
Share a link and participants can try the prototype in any browser. The same app runs on iOS, Android and tablets.
Separate test studies
Keep co-design rounds apart from your main study, then carry the final version into the trial.
Privacy and Security
Protect study data with encryption, with country-specific data hosting options available on request.
