health
Loop-Up
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Loop-up is a mobile app that provides remote support to people with chronic illnesses like Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis. Customizable menus enable users to track symptoms, medications and disease stressors to improve communication with healthcare professionals. Built-in reflection tools allow users to look back on the previous week's activities to find correlations and insights on how to better manage their health.
Blue Line Campaign
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The Blue Line Campaign was a co-creation project done in conjunction with Vancouver Coastal Health, with a team consisting of Tia Blunden, Caitrin Wootton, and myself. The objective of our project was to improve hospital hand hygiene, and therefore decrease the occurrence of hospital-acquired infections.
Existing efforts to enforce hand hygiene were confusing and inconsistent throughout the facilities. Our campaign sought to keep language and aesthetic simple, but bold enough to capture the attention of otherwise busy visitors and employees. The campaign is very versatile and can accommodate a variety of messages while remaining cohesive.
Academy of BC Children's Hospital (A.B.C.H.)
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The Academy of B.C. Children's Hospital (ABCH) is a group project in collaboration with B.C. Children's Hospital that involves building a new framework for their existing website.
The design problem is that there is a massive amount of information presented in a rather dry and static way, and we do acknowledge that a hospital website needs to be highly informative. How could we present this material in a manner that encourages the interaction of exchanging and receiving this health knowledge within and outside the website? During the process, we came up with the idea that people learn the most through teaching, when they're reiterating their knowledge to other people. The final outcome revolves around the idea of sharing.
CanGuide Application Design
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Canguide was developed while on Exchange at the HfG Scwäbisch Gmünd, with input from a number of Cancer survivors. It has a variety of features which allow patients to track information and manage tasks that are essential to their health, but are not directly part of their medical care. This includes tracking of pain severity and length, times and kinds of medication taken, tracking emotional state through a diary feature and managing the preparation of appropriate meals through the recipe feature.
Wireframes and concept sketching. Pages built with Fireworks and online prototype assembled with tutorial- html, css, php.
Heart Monitor
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CONCEPT A wearable device designed specifically for individuals with heart conditions. DEVELOPMENT A collaborative effort between myself and two others in which we concentrated on design iteration and storyboarding. Although the physical creation and product design was explored, it was not the main focus.
"Less is More" Soaps
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This set of soaps remind the users about the significance of simplicity, particularly that of traditional soaps versus the complications that can be caused by conventional antibacterial soaps. Exploration of an unusual yet logical medium to convey such message was a consideration.
