Adobe Experience Design | WIP | App frames, MVP | Accessibility design | UX and UI design
In the immediate after-care of eye surgery, patients must typically keep their heads in an unnatural position. Adherence to these positioning instructions during the first two weeks of recovery has a strong impact on the success of the operation, and the avoidance of complications.
Maintaining this positioning is very challenging for patients. University of California, San Francisco found that their patients frequently believed they were positioned correctly when they were not, or inadvertently changed position during sleep.
The major accessibility design challenge was to make the app suitable for patients with severe visual impairment.
The solution was to create a two-part smartphone app, for use by the clinical user (the patient's surgeon), and the non-clinical user (the patient).
The surgeon calibrates the correct positioning for the patient by setting MbientLab's wearable MetaSensor to "True 0", from the password-protected section of the app(frames 6-8). UCSF wanted the app to feel iOS native, and needed a working demo with a short turnaround time.
The patient only interacts with frames 1-4. I stripped back the artwork and UI design, so that the patient didn't rely only on visual cues: an alarm goes off when the patient is out of clinically-set alignment, and large fonts allow the patient to Snooze the alarm.
