Guerilla Usability on the Cardiology floor

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My school in Puerto Rico did not have a User Experience, HCI or Human Factors program when I studied there, so I stubbornly strong-armed my Software Engineering masters degree into a UX-centric learning experience.

I helped design an informative dashboard for nurses caring for an entire hospital floor full of patients. This gallery of screenshots shows the evolution of the patient status visualization after repeated heuristic evaluations and usability tests:
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Timmy the Robot

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When I was in grade school, I would pick through my dad’s electronic detritus, connecting everything together, making motors spin and little bulbs light up. One afternoon, I burnt all the LEDs because I didn’t hook them up with resistors. This just didn’t make sense to me. Why would you ever want to limit the current. Isn’t this whole Radio Electronics shtick about making things POP!?


In college, I helped build Timmy, a very precise little roving robot…
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