Human-Centered Design to Enhance Implementation and Impact in Health

Publication Year: 2024
Contributing Organisation: University of Washington
Authors: Aaron R. Lyon, Tricia Aung, and Kathryn E. Bruzios
Learning Themes: Global Health

Human-centered design (HCD) is an approach that aligns innovation development with the needs of the people and the settings where those innovations will be used. HCD is increasingly being applied across a variety of health domains, most often with the goals of translating research into real-world settings and expanding innovation adoption.
This review introduces key HCD concepts, reviews the growth of HCD in public health and its alignment with the complementary field of implementation science, and details four prominent proximal outcomes of design processes: (a) usability, (b) user burden, (c) contextual appropriateness, and (d) engagement.

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