Well, I Didn’t See That Coming! – Kardo Ayoub
summary
One designer recounts a sudden brain lesion roughly the size of a lemon that requires an awake nine‑hour operation and leaves a permanent 50/50 cut in the visual field; eyesight remains sharp but half of every scene never reaches the brain. Work shifts from flashy interfaces to practical accessibility: a tiny prototype—an annotated image tool with a reusable image library and share-to-records flow—ships in weeks, boosts patient engagement and medication adherence, and becomes the catalyst for moving into healthcare tech.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:55MRI diagnosis and brain surgery
- 7:01Awake brain surgery experience
- 10:31Visual impairment explained
- 13:21Adapting to peripheral vision loss
- 16:35Epilepsy and hallucinations
- 19:27Lessons from challenges
- 21:18Design approach changes
- 22:43Patient information retention
- 24:29Performative accessibility critique
- 25:52Designing with disabled users
- 27:20Temporary and situational disabilities
- 28:25Turning challenges into opportunities
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