Wrist Fracture Upper Body Complications: John Doe
John Doe suffered a slip & fall injury resulting in a fractured left wrist. This lead to several significant complications that impacted daily life. This interactive exhibit was created to present John Doe’s upper body complications to a jury (lay audience) and would be show in conjunction with the following exhibits: (1) Mechanism of Injury, (2) Fracture and Soft Tissue Injury, (3) Surgical Results, (4) Wrist and Hand Pathological Complications and (6) Future Issues.
Clients
Stephen Mader (Professor, University of Toronto; Content Expert)
Date
December 2025
Role
Research, Visual Development, Layout, Interactive Design
Format
Interactive Court Exhibit
Audience
Jury (Lay audience)
Tools
Procreate, Adobe Illustrator & Figma
Research
The goal of this project was to follow a MedLegal case from discover to executions. Our team, Wrist Watch Enterprise (composed of Kelsey Zhao, Raymond Zhang, Grace Gibson, and I) were assigned the slip and fall case of John Doe resulting in a left comminuted intra-articular distal radius (Colles) fracture. After reading the full report details, we came to the conclusion that the full case should be shown using 6 exhibits: (1) Mechanism of Injury, (2) Fracture and Soft Tissue Injury, (3) Surgical Results, (4) Wrist and Hand Pathological Complications, (5) Upper Limb Complications, and (6) Future Issues.
Ideation
Each team member took on one exhibit, but we each developed sketches for each of the 4 exhibits chosen for execution (see my sketches below). We also developed a shared style guide that we would use to match layout, design and rendering.
Style Guide
Comprehensive Draft
I chose to complete exhibit 5: Upper Body Complications. This exhibit’s particular challenges surrounded the large amount of information to be communicated to the jury from complex conditions such as CRPS to changes in range of motion at both the elbow and wrist.
With this draft, I was happy with layout as it showed John Doe in motion and contextualized his complications in terms of his career as a painter. I was unhappy with the lack of integration surrounding the reduced range of motion.
To avoid overwhelming the audience, I made the decision to turn this into an interactive exhibit so that the jury could click on, and explore the complications reducing initial cognitive load.
Documentation
Since the goal of this project was to take a case study from start to end, we were also tasked with creating a quote, invoice, conclusion cover letter and a visual dossier.