Background

Chronic pain isn’t resolved in a fortnight. It’s managed over months and years, across many appointments and often more than one practitioner, yet the record of it was frequently pen and paper. The opportunity was to give clinicians a way to capture not just where a patient hurts, but how they feel about it, and to let that picture build over time.

The work

I led the concept, art direction and prototyping, with my team lead giving me room to run with it. The result was a working prototype that took a recorded consultation and turned it into a visual, emotional record of a patient’s pain.

The result

The concept was presented to the client, who were genuinely taken with it. In the end the technology of the day couldn’t carry it - but the thinking has aged rather well.