Electronic Health Records and Medical UI Design
One of the areas of Medical UI Design that gets little mention has been in electronic health records (EHR) implementation and management. Streamlining workflow with the use of electronic health records throughout a patient’s visit allows physicians their care center staff to have access to a patient’s necessary information at all times. EHR also promises…
Keys to intuitive User Interface Design
To achieve the most intuitive user interface solutions, the gap between the user’s current knowledge level and the minimum knowledge level needed to complete a given task must be bridged as quickly and easily as possible. The biggest key to achieving this is discovering end users’ current understanding of similar systems. Just as important is…
mHealth apps, User Research and Usability Testing
mHealth apps have made their way into everyday health care management. Mobile health technology-or mHealth- can be described as the use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to deliver health care and preventive health services. Unfortunately, studies show an overwhelming percentage of patients are not using the apps that hospitals provide. This would seem…
CTA Button UX design and mobile devices
Mobile CTA (Call-To-Action) buttons present unique issues for UI and UX Design. Since CTA buttons generally are those features and actions you want the user to easily recognize and interact with, the characteristics that allow for that to happen need to be easily transferable across different platforms and devices. Certain elements need to be considered…
Quotations about User Interface and User Experience design
Some interesting quotations about User Interface design: “An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.” ~Jef Raskin “In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.” ~Linus…
User Research and diary studies
In user research, a diary study is a research method used to collect qualitative data about user behaviors and experiences over time. Study participants are asked to keep a diary and describe aspects of their lives that are relevant to a product or service. This can take place over an extended period ranging from a…