F2020 Senior Studio

Week 6: Overview

Work Overview

This week I worked on gathering more information on patient experiences and pinpointing what causes their anxiety and when they feel it the most. On Figma, I revised my journey map and stakeholder map to visualize how doctors, caretakers / loved…

Week 7-8: Midsemester Presentation Reflection

This past week, we had our mid-semester presentation reviews to showcase our progress over the last 7 weeks or so. I feel like I started putting together the presentation with the notion of simply compiling everything I’ve done so far, but having to…

9.28.2020

General Questions

Accompaniment

• Patients with frequent visits are often accompanied with someone
• Hired caregivers prefer not to speak on patient’s behalf; loved ones occasionally answer for them

Week 11 — prototyping

Without access to the shop, I spent this week developing some crude mockups for potential forms for my cataract…

UPMC Vision Patients

Target Population (outlined by UPMC)

Vision Patients

Target Population (outlined by the company)

“People with vision and physical disabilities and those in their care network”

Eye Specialist Interview Questions

1. What are some general concerns patients have while receiving diagnosis? Do most patients openly share these concerns or keep them private?
2. Do you feel that it is the medical professional’s responsibility to reassure / console the patient? If…

Week 8: Conceptualization

This week I started brainstorming ideas for a potential concept to alleviate patient anxiety around major eye…

Week 9

After talking with my peers, my father who’s had cataract surgery, and Eric and Anuprita, I have narrowed my concept to a cataract surgery…

Week 12&13 — Refined Prototyping

This week I took what I learned from my earlier crude mockups to develop something closer to what I…