Web app · Dental SaaS
A SaaS platform for orthodontic practices with dense clinical data, used all day by people who cannot afford to hunt for anything.
UI and UX designer
Web application interface
Dental / orthodontics
Web app
The problem
A practice management platform is the opposite of a consumer app. Nobody is discovering it, nobody needs persuading to open it, and nobody is impressed by it. It gets used all day by staff who know exactly what they came for and resent anything standing between them and it.
The design problem is density. Patient records, treatment stages, scheduling and clinical detail all have to be on screen and legible at once, without the interface turning into a wall of grey tables.
Dense clinical data organised with type and spacing rather than reduced.
What I did
Every decision was weighted towards the hundredth use rather than the first. Shorter paths to frequent actions, consistent placement, and nothing that rewards exploring at the cost of being slower to operate once learned.
Clinical information can’t be reduced, so it has to be organised. Type scale, spacing and grouping do the work of making a full screen of patient data scannable rather than exhausting.
A restrained interface is a practical choice in software people stare at all day. Colour is reserved for status and action, so when something on screen is coloured it means something.
Colour reserved for status and action, so it carries meaning rather than decoration.
Start a project
Send the Figma, live product, deck or even a rough message. I’ll tell you what I think it needs, whether I’m the right fit and roughly what it’ll cost.
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