BackProduct Design Internship 2025
Interactive Medical Planning Platform
Overview
Designing a planning platform for a medical startup
Over the Summer 2025, I had the opportunity to intern with Sancorda Medical, a medical startup, and worked with the founders to visualize their SaaS platform. While the team at Sancorda had already identified their market need for their platform, my work was to translate their goals and ideas into prototypes and a final demo for future potential investors.
With Sancorda's medical software being split between 3 sections, these being Recont ST, Recon AI, and iPlant, over the summer I focused on the first two. Having different purposes and workflows between the two sections, with findings gathered through research and biomedical & bioengineering insights from the founders, I translated these into a web-based platform.
So what is Sancorda?
Sancorda Medical is a medical startup developing a 3D coronary artery visualization and operation planning platform. It's design to assist in identifying potential ruptures and optimizing the placements of stents. Their ultimate goal is to reduce the amount of hospital readmissions for heart patients.
Research
Looking at the Medical Lab Software Products
In order to understand the current market, I conducted an analysis of some competitors that offer similar services. Due to the very limiting information that is open to the public, I also looked into design editing tools to capture more editing aspects. This helped me identify a range of potential features to incorporate into their product, as well as features to avoid.
Initial User Flow for Recon ST
Initial User Flow for Recon AI
Design
Optimizing the layout for high-density information
After researching key elements to incorporate and avoid within the software, I knew that this software was going to have a data-heavy dashboard, I was excited and interested in figuring out the different combinations of data layouts.
Design Style & Icons
With the UI of this project being very simple, dark themed, and overall abundant, the different variations of the components were designed to maintain visual clarity throughout the demo journey due to its data-heavy dashboards.
Recon ST & Recon AI Demo
Reflection
Thoughts & Takeaways
New Research - Since this project was a biomedical & bioengineering based, I learned new interesting and complex things that previously I didn't expect to know about. Compact Design - Designing in a whole different layout for the demo, I learned new ways in maximizing space with necessary information, but still balancing it with functionality and user-friendly design. User Work Flow - Designing for the split between Recon ST and Recon AI workflows, required consistent iteration due to their respective functionalities. I gained insightful experience with user-flow mapping and overall creating a smooth guide to users.