Excedrin

 

A migraine doesn’t just affect those who suffer them. They have a knock effect to work productivity, family commitments and social engagements. In short, when migraines happen, everything comes to a halt for the sufferer. And with a real lack of true empathy for what migraine sufferers go through, it’s hard to know how to best support them.

 

To help spread awareness about just what it’s like to have a migraine, we developed a simulator to let migraine sufferer’s friends, family and colleagues experience the effects and symptoms that come with a migraines. However, each migraine sufferer experiences a different set of crippling symptoms, so we created a simulator that could mimic each individual migraine.

 

I worked on this project, developing the scripts, experiment structure and interviewing migraine sufferers to help shape the tech used in the experiment.