Towards user Design? On the shift from object to user as the subject of design
We should not design the use. Unfortunately, this was an unintended outcome of usability research. The Author argues that we should go back and focus on the designed object itself. We should aim at designing objects that people will probably use. People who become users of this object should be able to use it whatever way they please. These users will then have a user experience. This is opposite to the designs that start by designing the user experience and ending up with the design.
This is the 2006 Design research society design studies award. This study is by Johan Redström and is published in Design Studies Vol. 27, No. 2, pp 123-139.
Based on this, a suggestion to design the perfect clinician interface system is to first list all types of data that is needed as labs, imaging, problem list. Then, develop a way to view and access these. The opposite, that is if we focus on the user first, is to develop use-case scenarios. Then design the clinician interface based on these scenario.
