Stryker
Training Academy
Digital Product Experience & Architecture
Challenge
Stryker needed a robust training application to instruct medical surgeons in Stryker’s proprietary hip replacement surgery – Direct Anterior Approach & Direct Superior Approach. The training needed to include instructional content that was relevant, trackable, testable, and fluid enough to be brought into the operating room.
Approach
Through continuous data collection with Stryker, engineers, company SMEs, and stakeholders – an iterative approach was taken to ensure thorough, consummate medical, and procedural instruction.
Weekly sprints and product reviews were maintained throughout the development cycle, allowing for constant testing, and relevant updates leading to the design and development of two iPad applications to assist physicians in the operating room during training.
Considering the sheer volume of learning materials and to maintain instructional clarity the applications were separated. One application was designed to cover the Direct Anterior Approach procedure while the other application would cover the Direct Superior Approach. Each application was designed to include an interactive video library containing procedural videos, downloadable medical instruction, up-to-date procedural advancements, individual progress-tracking, and online certifications for Stryker’s procedurally trained surgeons.
"Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
— Thomas Fuller
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Brand Strategy
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Information Architecture
Instructional Design
User Experience Design
User Interface Design
Value
By creating two individual training applications with custom logins, Stryker could customize, manage, and track user-performance while providing individualized training experiences for learners.
A final product hand-off of an intuitive and fully responsive mobile application empowered Stryker’s development team to continuously improve the application architecture with procedural updates, keeping the application training relevant and timely as the process matured and technological advancements are made.
