Organizations spend a considerable amount of resources trying to remind women to check themselves for breast cancer, but their messages are often ineffective because 95% of all women forget how and when they should perform self-exams.

We designed the ‘Safety Touch App,’ a unique mobile application that replaces the locking feature of smartphones and forces users to utilize their fingers to trace out a diagnostic pattern identical to the method of conducting a breast cancer self-exam. The pattern is customized to each user and only runs once a month at an optimal time during a woman’s cycle.

We gave women a simple reminder encouraging them to make a monthly habit of breast self-exams, by using the one device they always carry with them and look at more than 180 times a day; their phones.