Prototype opioid decision cards help center the conversation on priorities — giving patients a sense of agency in navigating their own treatment.

Supporting safer decisions around pain treatment through information design

As part of the flagship Communicating Pain Project, I worked with the team at the UC Davis Center for Design in the Public Interest (DiPi) to create a suite of pain education materials to make complicated medical information more accessible. As part of this work, I helped create:

• a prototype set of opioid decision cards to give patients prescription information at a glance
• a patient education video for the UC Davis Health System to support patients with new prescriptions
• patient education print materials for clinics at UC Davis and Hill Country Health and Wellness Center (posters, booklets, decision cards, illustrated folders)

This suite of materials covers everything from basic safety information about opioids to ideas about alternative treatment options. Each artifact is meant to gently reveal possibilities while starting new conversations.

my roles

• preliminary research + outreach
• prototype development
• scriptwriting + editing
• music + voiceover recording + production
• video editing
• user-testing workshop planning + co-facilitation
• layout, editorial + typographic design in production phase
• project documentation + process photography

awards

SAPPI Ideas that Matter Grant

Alternative pain treatment poster for clinical settings.

Opioid patient education video:

https://youtu.be/yzAID2p_Ycg