ICU App — Nurse Side.
An always-on companion for ICU nurses — surfacing patient vitals, alerts, task lists and shift handovers in one calm, scannable interface designed for high-pressure environments.
ICU nurses juggle 8–12 patients across paper charts, monitor screens and separate apps — losing precious seconds every time a critical alert needs context.
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Embedded on-shift with 4 ICU nurses across day and night cycles
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Mapped the 9 highest-frequency tasks into a single bottom-nav model
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Built a colour-coded vitals system that survives in a sleep-deprived, low-light ward
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Validated against intensivists and ran two usability rounds before handoff
Shipped a tablet-first nurse companion in production trial; alert acknowledgement is faster and shift handovers happen entirely inside the app — no paper.