Designing for People
Professor Sue Hignett outlines the need for good design in health and social care and important role of Human Factors in realising this need.
Why Design Starts with people
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‘Bad’ Human Factors Designs
A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles (By Michael J. Darnell). Please select here to view.
Design Articles
Dr Laura Pickup blogs about equipment design in healthcare and asks whether NHS staff should be held accountable for the use of devices and equipment leading to patient safety events. You can read the blog here.
Useful resources
Nielsen-Norman Group YouTube Channel
User Centred Design: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Design & Technology
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
28 Tips for Creating Great Qualitative Surveys
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
Open-Ended vs. Closed-Ended Questions in User Research
Rating Scales in UX Research: Likert or Semantic Differential?
The Critical Incident Technique in UX
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability