Touchy Feely
Now, while it really is an honour just to be nominated, it’s pretty kickass to win! Relish was lucky enough to have one of our projects, the Michener Electronic Health Record, nominated in the ‘Flash Usability’ category at FITC Toronto this year. Despite stiff competition from a couple of incredible sites by Grow Interactive, it was Relish who was sipping champagne in the winner’s lounge this time.
A leader in Applied Health Sciences education—with an emphasis on hands-on learning—the Michener Institute quickly saw the benefits of what’s turning out to be a natural marriage between the medical applications in use by the industry today and some of the more tactile and er, “hands-on” interfaces of tomorrow, like touchscreens.
Relish was asked to help build a prototype that showcased a hypothetical Electronic Patient Record that featured new ways of presenting and manipulating existing data as well as new interaction models for integrating some of their existing vendor applications. Using Adobe AIR, (and some fancy DLL modding from the Michener team) we were able to tie everything together into one visually-rich, fullscreen, multitouch experience.
Check out some footage of the demo here:
http://www.relishinteractive.com/snacks/michener/
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In addition to the award, we were also amazed—and a little overwhelmed—by the positive response we got to the new FITC website we designed and built and also to Relish in general! So thanks to everyone who came to the Get-A-Job event and those who stopped us just to say “hi” over the last 4 days. It really made us remember why we relish what we do.
