My Roles & Responsibilities

• User research: White paper research, Contextual Inquiry, Competitive analysis

• UX design: Concept mapping, Application architecture, Wireframing, Prototyping.

• UI + Interactions

Project Context

• August - November (14 weeks)

• Solo project

Every day, surgeons rely on information from CT scans, and MRIs, where the anatomy is sliced and displayed as images to study patient data and to employ pre-surgical planning. With information only available in document format, Surgeons go on to perform complicated and high-risk surgeries.

Lack of visualization in the medical field

PROBLEM

An application that converts CT scans and MRIs into AR

AR can help surgeons become more efficient at surgeries, as they go on to operate they can be more aware of the organ location, steps to deal with complications, vein mesh, and the reports of the patients. Which makes diagnosis faster and more reliable

With AR, surgeons can perform accurate and low-risk surgeries, saving time.

SOLUTION

1. You can upload CT/MRI reports to Magnate and request conversion into AR.

Upon verifying your reports get connected with your Designer

2.

Receive the converted file with a target image and QR code to view it in AR

3.

WHAT IS AR?

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that integrates digital information into the user’s real-world environment.

Imagine if the records of patients could easily appear right in front of the surgeon’s eyes, this is possible with augmented reality (AR). Surgeons can access real-time, life-saving patient information to study the patient’s data and employ pre-surgical planning.

DEFINE

Benefits of AR

RESEARCH

My UX Road Map

A way to make planning and diagnosis reliable/ efficient through Visualization…..

Inorder to understand how AR will help surgeons, I had to take the time to explore the context. I began to draw from various research articles on this topic and these lines from Accenture's augmented for surgical success - a reality now caught my attention.

White paper research

Research Insights

What surgeons say about AR

Contextual Inquiry with designer

To gain a robust understanding of work practices and behaviors, an in-depth contextual Inquiry was done with the designer which went on for three days.

During the contextual Inquiry, I learnt the possible ways of increasing the chance of picturizing, how the process of converting 2D to 3D is done, how the application can receive files and get connected to a scanner, and much more and came to a conclusion of:

Competitive analysis

I analyzed some apps surrounding the CT/MRIs space, I found that almost none had the aspect of converting scans into AR. I also explored the color palettes of apps in the market so that I could determine appropriate colors for my app.

Concept Mapping

With concept mapping, I attempted to create a visual representation that is easy to understand and shows the concepts that are interconnected as well as how I wanted the system to function. ( wait for the output !! )

Application Architecture

Firstly, I organized the features and tabs required for the project and created a site map to show the many layers of information and the user flow. The image below is the way the information was structured in the app.

Storyboarding

As a solution for my focus area, I conceptualized the flow of a patient suffering from a severe headache and viewing the problem in augmented reality. I used Storyboarding to explain my idea, here I first framed a story and further went ahead with creating the scenes.

PROTOTYPE & TESTING

Ideation

Wireframes

Testing and improvements

The Final Product

The Style Guide

CONCLUSION

With Magnate, an augmented reality project, I was able to experience the entire UX and augmented reality processes. I learned very valuable lessons that I will always remember. The lessons are :

1. To design is always learning. During this project, I was constantly learning to expand my skills and knowledge in order to meet the new challenges and tasks that I encountered on a daily basis. I believe that this approach helped me to complete the project successfully and also enabled me to continue learning as a designer.

2. Foresee the Future. When the problem statement was identified and defined, I saw the potential for augmented reality to completely transform how patients and surgeons see and interact with medical imaging. As Augmented reality becomes more widely adopted, I thought about how it could be used in healthcare, That's how magnate was made!!!

3. When in doubt use your hands. During my design process, I sometimes found myself feeling stuck and lacking ideas. To overcome this, I turned to my "weapons" of pen and paper and began sketching out ideas and prototypes. This low-fidelity approach helped me to brainstorm and generate more ideas, and also saved me time compared to when I sat in front of my laptop with no ideas.

4. You dint fail 100 times - You just learned 100 new things. Every time I faced an obstacle or challenge in my design process, I considered it as an opportunity to gain new insights and develop new skills. I tried to reframe failures as beneficial learning opportunities rather than perceiving them as setbacks. I didn't fail 100 times I just learned 100 new things.