Mobile app for breast cancer patients: Development process using the ADDIE models (Step 1)

Abstract The mobile app is becoming an indispensable product of our lives with its different features as well as communication services that make our lives easier. In addition to communication, it is used in areas such as monitoring health checks, tracking steps, and data transfer. In addition to these features, the mobile app is an effective tool to contribute to the disease process. To take advantage of this feature of the mobile app, health professionals develop app for different types of diseases. "ADDIE model", which is one of the education models, can contribute to the design process of mobile app content. These design steps involve a systematic approach process that includes analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. This research deals with the steps related to the development process of the mobile app prepared according to this design model in detail. This research focuses on the technical aspect of the app, explains the installation of a mobile app system that can be used by the patient who has undergone breast surgery, and can guide post-surgical symptom management. This research, which details the steps of the mobile app product design process, contains information that can guide researchers who are at the stage of producing similar products.