We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Planmeca about their original and creative Dental Imaging Software design work. Planmeca is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original dental imaging software works.
Planmeca ("Planmeca") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Romexis 6 Dental Imaging Software. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
Planmeca : We did extensive research on how users use the product and listened and observed very carefully what were the most common pain points users faced. From this we derived insights that offered easy solutions for the first time users to learn the software and for the experienced users to have more customisation options.
Planmeca : We wanted it to have clear visual appearance to keep the dentist or nurse focused on the task at hand. Subtle, unobtrusive graphics, familiar conventions and predictable behaviours where favoured over flamboyant style. Style vice we didn’t want to go all flat with the design language and we also wanted it to be easily translatable to other applications as this was the basis and first user interface for the new company wide design system.
Planmeca : We will keep collecting information of its use and make it even better with every sprint.
Planmeca : The concept phase took about a year and from there it got revised for multiple times and now after 2,5 years of continuous work we are ready to release the Planmeca Romexis 6.0 version to the market.
Planmeca : The Romexis software allows capturing, viewing and processing all types of data in the same system – with all 2D and 3D images and CAD/CAM cases in the same database. The software has extensive specialist tools, real-time monitoring possibilities, and unique connectivity with Planmeca equipment, we wanted to make all of the interactions and workflows for these as easy as possible.
Planmeca : The software is released, and we are selling it through our dealer network throughout the world.
Planmeca : Work was mainly designed by our lead UI/UX designer Antti Eloheimo, but design is a team effort and everyone in the team contributed to the outcome
Planmeca : Mainly for dentistry professionals, but this same software can be used for medical and veterinary purposes also.
Planmeca : It has superior usability and all-in-one approach where 2D, 3D and CAD/CAM needs are met with single software, all the other competitor have these in specialties in different software’s and overall workflow is not as fast. Romexis is also an open platform that works seamlessly with industry standards.
Planmeca : Design was done on Sketch app and developed with Java.
Planmeca : Romexis is the most powerful dental software platform in the world. It offers a rich selection of tools and features for all needs and specialities. Romexis brings together all the equipment at a dental clinic – from CAD/CAM technology to imaging devices and dental units. Seeing all the patient data from one location and the possibility to interact with any of it with just one click sets this design in its own league.
Planmeca : Design quality of Romexis is based on continuous user experience research that incorporates behavioural, attitudinal, quantitative and qualitative data collection.
Planmeca : Balancing and prioritizing vastly different user needs in a software that has multiple use cases.
