SOONER Project

There is an acute opioid (heroin, oxycodone and fentanyl) crisis in North America. One way to address this wicked problem is educating the population about overdose and distributing naloxone, an opioid antagonist.

In a partnership between OCAD University and St. Michael's Hospital, a group of designers engaged with the involved stakeholders, like opioid users, family members, first-responders, and policymakers, in co-design workshops to understand the problem and design training and a first-aid kit for opioid overdose.

In this project, I worked as a User Researcher and Product Designer. As a researcher, I did field observations in hospitals and clinics, interviewed health care providers, facilitated co-design workshops, and created journey maps to translate all that data into a visual format. As a designer, I did material research, sketching, and prototyping to explore alternatives for the first-aid kit.