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Figure 1: EZ-ICU Main screen.
General Design Thoughts:
Given the user population and environment we were targeting - busy doctors and nurses in the ICU - we made our user interface as simple and intuitive as possible. It was particularly important to provide a comparable level of learnability and efficiency to what the classical whiteboard provides, without any of the safety pitfalls. Hence, the main screen of our interface was designed to provide clinical staff with an intuitive overview of the patient population and provide strong information scent on how to dig further into individual patient details. As we will discuss further into this section, we incorporated several simple, but informationally dense signifies on the page.
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