This is a tablet app to be used by an ophthalmologist's assistant in consultation with a patient who is considering cataract surgery. It's a great tool to visualize the effects that different types of lenses will have on the patient's eyesight while juxtaposed to a simulation of their current condition. The assistant inputs the known conditions into the setup step then chooses the type of corrective lens, after which, various scenes of daily life are shown drawing attention to foreground, middle ground and distance corrections.

This is the third version of a vision simulator I've worked on and the UX for a project like this is straight forward, the difficulty here is in creating the visual scenes, which are layered in a way that provides distinction between fore, middle and background sections. I constructed all of the scenes through a combination of photo-shoots and stock imagery.

This tool is also used by Alcon at trade shows to facilitate conversations with ophthalmologists and other interested parties. 

Audiences

Ophthalmologists and their office staff

Patients and their caregivers

Colleagues: Meghan Rennie, Matt Cave and Terry Irwin.