Siemens Healthineers CIARTIC Move

The CIARTIC Move by Siemens Healthineers is a new kind of self-driving mobile 3D C-arm for making X-rays during surgeries. It was designed to make intraoperative imaging easier and address the challenges of staff shortage.

Before the product development of the CIARTIC Move started, my former agency was asked to design a concept for the future user interface. The goal was to demonstrate the value of good UX design and convince the upper management to invest more in this area.

When I joined the project, my colleagues had done user research and created a rough concept. Together, we refined the wireframes and created an appealing visual design based on the Siemens Healthineers design system, which was in its infancy then. Our main challenges were to work within this visual framework while adapting the UI to the functionality of the C-arm, and orchestrating the user interaction between multiple users and touchscreens.

The result was a clean and modern user interface, baked into a high-fidelity functional prototype with animations and cross-device interactions. Feedback from the client was very positive on our way of work and the final result. The internal design team of Siemens Healthineers then took over and started the actual design and development work based on our initial concepts.

Years later, when the CIARTIC Move was finally launched, it received the prestigious Red Dot Design Award: Best of the Best 2024. All the effort and early investment in design has indeed paid off for Siemens Healthineers.