design for health
Design Research: Methods & Findings for Health Care Environments
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This design research project was comissioned by Vancouver Coastal Health in collaboration with IBI Architects to assess usability, function and user flow of the Lions Gate Hospital Foyer. I worked with, then 4th year, ID students Irene Schmid and Jesse Mah. ID student, Solveig Johannesen, also contributed at the beginning of the project. The team designed and implemented a series of research methods intended to inform recommendations for a re-design of the foyer space. Our findings report is available at the Emily Carr University Library, and a praxis paper that I authored was published in the 2012 issue of Current and can be read here.
Prescription Drug Label Redesign
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My 4th year senior design project, which aims to re-design the way we handle prescription drug labeling in Canada.
Inspired by Deborah Adler and her journey to design a new drug container and label as her major thesis project. I decided to set out to do a similar project for use in Canada.
The main redesign focuses on keeping everything low cost and easy for adoption. The design utilizes a similar footprint as the current drug labels being printed, but now there is a heirarchy established through contrast in type weight and size.
All these simple changes combine in a big way to make reading drug labels much simpler and streamlined.
Information where you want it, when you need it.
