WardView
Clinical Monitoring Dashboard
WardView is a monitoring dashboard for care teams, designed around interruption: every screen has to survive being read in fragments.
Designed & developed by Entrovix
- Year
- 2024
- Discipline
- Health TechData DesignEngineering
- Services
- UX ResearchData VisualisationUI DesignEngineering
- Built with
- ReactTypeScriptWebSocketTimescaleDB
The Challenge
Designed for thirty seconds, not thirty minutes
Clinical software is often built as though the reader has time. In practice a screen is read in fragments, between interruptions, frequently by somebody who did not open it.
The brief was a dashboard that stays truthful when it is only half read — where the most important fact is also the most visible one.
The Approach
How we worked
Rank by consequence
Visual weight was assigned by clinical consequence rather than by data volume, so the loudest element is the one that matters most.
Never hide state behind hover
Anything a clinician must know is on the screen. Hover reveals detail, never status — a rule that also made the product usable on a tablet.
Colour is a signal
The palette was reduced so colour carries meaning, and every state was checked to stay distinguishable without it.
Design the alarm honestly
Alerts were tuned against the fatigue that makes people ignore them, which meant designing what does not alert as carefully as what does.
The Solution
The most important thing is the most visible thing
The dashboard leads with status, sized and coloured by consequence, and readable across a room. Trends and history sit beneath it for the moments when there is time.
Live values stream in without the layout moving, so a number never changes position under a finger that was about to touch it.
Inside the product
What it actually does
Every Screen
One product, whatever it is opened on
The phone layout is not the desktop one squeezed down. Density, hit areas and reading order are decided per screen, and the interface keeps its meaning at both ends.
Capability
What we brought to WardView
The same services are available on their own — each one links to what it involves, how it runs and what you get.
Built with
- React
- TypeScript
- WebSocket
- TimescaleDB
Disciplines
Health Tech · Data Design · Engineering
The Outcome
What it settled
- Visual weight ranked by clinical consequence
- No status information hidden behind hover
- Every state distinguishable without relying on colour
- Live updates that never shift the layout
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