Reference site in Italian for patients and doctors regarding Slipping Rib Syndrome. Designed and donated by NaCode Studios for a non-profit project run by volunteers.
SRS Italia was born to fill an information void: prior to its publication, searching in Italian for Slipping Rib Syndrome yielded no valid results. The site organises the available scientific literature (with every clinical claim explicitly tied to its original study), creating a tool that can be consulted in moments of difficulty and printed directly for specialist appointments. To aid comprehension of the affected anatomy, we integrated an interactive 3D model of the rib cage, originally derived from BodyParts3D. The original asset of 209,981 triangles, weighing 2.5 MB, was recoded with meshoptimizer bringing it down to just 703 KB. This ensures fluidity without losing a single triangle, all without unnecessarily burdening the website’s load times. The infrastructure, hosted on Firebase App Hosting, is built on Next.js with every page generated at build time except one, which is dynamic: the European directory of specialists. This searchable database reads the data of 48 specialists across 18 countries directly from Firestore. Utmost care was taken regarding accessibility, aligning colour contrasts to the WCAG AA standard and respecting system settings for reduced motion.
