Meet Pillbox. Pillbox is an open-source Windows Phone 7 application we’ve put together that helps you track medications and take care of your friends and loved ones.

We know how hard it can be to take care of friends and relatives (and yourself) when you have multiple prescriptions that need to be taken on strict schedules. So we spent a two-week iteration to build a proof-of-concept app that tracks medication schedules, gives you more information about the prescriptions you have (and when they need refills or renewals), and helps you communicate and coordinate with fellow caregivers and family doctors.

We designed it to integrate with Microsoft HealthVault, so all of this information would be stored securely in the cloud.

Richard Wulfenstein was our visual designer on the project, producing all of the Illustrator comps, helping map out the information architecture, and learning Expression Blend and XAML within the two weeks, to boot.

Joe McBride was the team’s lead developer, setting up the project with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and a flavor of Rob Eisenberg’s Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) that kept everything wonderfully “Blendable” with design-time data throughout the project. He also cooked up some handy swipe-gesture Blend Behaviors for rolling your Panorama view (as you may have already seen on the blogs here).

Matthias Shapiro orchestrated our initial user research interviews, collaborated to develop our personas and scenarios, and pinch-hit with some of the early integration work.

Jason Alderman was the user experience designer on the project, working with Matthias to conduct user research and refine the scenario, leading the team in whiteboard sketch sessions, designing animations based on the existing samples, planning out the application flow and interactions, and integrating Richard’s comps into XAML.

It was a rewarding experience for all of us, and we’re excited to share it with you. Read more about the project and download the code here, and let us know what you think.

I created a couple Windows Phone 7 Behaviors that you can use to easily add swipe functionality. Download the source here.

You can find a couple other great Windows Phone 7 videos by Roger Peters (SmartyP) here.