I was the sole UX designer on this project where the job was to redesign for a kiosk attached to a medical instrument that automated sample processing.
The challenge - To restructure the system architecture without having to make any hardware changes, to keep the familiarity quotient intact for old users, and to make the UI intuitive and simple to operate.
The process - User interviews by going to the lab and seeing the problems they face on a daily basis, conduct card sort for defining categories and subcategories, and to design all pages based on findings.
The solution - I came up with a skeuomorphic design to graphically represent racks and all apparatus related to the instrument, so the cognitive load to learn new UI is diminished due to users' familiarity with the instrument. Next, I established color coding to standardize the meanings of common colors like amber, blue and green, to indicate the levels of inventory inside the instrument.
