Summary of the step-by-step process taught by Kevin Starr to design for building lasting impact at scale.
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App design: positional space
Do not teleport your users to different parts of the application. They must take a road to get there, and know which part of the app's 3D space they are in.
Navigation options starting with mobile
There are a limited number of common navigational patterns for mobile that scale to desktop
PATIENT FILE: Major UX Regions
The major user interface regions of the PATIENT FILE
When is a pixel not a pixel? pixels, points, dps
If you are designing on the web, Android, or iOS, a pixel is probably not what you think it means. Pixels, Points, and Density-independent pixels
Why 4K is misleading
If 1080p is 1.5x as vertically dense as 720p, Why is 4K not 4x as vertically dense as 1080P?
Why are phone dimensions backwards: Height x Width ?
Mobile phones and tablets advertise Height x Width x Depth ? This seems backwards.
UI/UX: Writing X vs Y dimensions
Almost always write the HORIZONTAL dimension first, the VERTICAL second. Unless, you are a fine art dealer or mobile phone manufacturer.
Lean Impact: how to innovate for radically greater social good (detailed summary)
The book for organizations and individual who measure their success not in terms of dollars and cents, but by their social impact. It challenges us to think big, start small, and relentlessly seek impact.
Engines of growth in social Impact
Who are the doers at scale? Who is the payer at scale? Lessons from the book Lean Impact, and work of Kevin Starr.
Why traditional philanthropy & grants hamper innovation
How philanthropic & grant based funding differs from traditional startup venture capital. Rigid waterfall grants. Small linear steps. Unscalable solutions.
Lean Startup + Lean Impact: Combined Short Summary
The entrepreneurship startup principles of Lean Startup, applied to social ventures as described in Lean Impact. How to build a social impact project that scales.
The Patient Workflow: it's not just a form.
The WORKFLOW section of the medical record completely transforms the EHR experience and clinical care. It is much more than just a form.
What is the Patient File? - EHR UX
The Patient File contains the Patient Chart & Patient Workflows. The design of the first is generalizable, the second is use case specific.
Ways to search for a patient in the EHR
Review of 6 different strategies to search for patients
Primary Purpose of the EHR HOME screen
In a clinical EHR, the first job of the HOME screen is to be bypassed quickly to get the PATIENT FILE open
Simple EHR workflow: only 2 screens
The entire EHR can be reduced down to two parts: (1) HOME: patient identification, & (2) PATIENT FILE: see info, enter info
The 3 (+1) essential tasks of an EHR
The thousands of tasks in an EHR can be simplified into three major clinical tasks. This simplicity is helpful to understand an EHR’s first principles.
Slow electronic health records: two root problems
EHR performance speed is very important to the user experience; but their are two very different sources for the cause of slowdowns.
Make the EHR immediately useful for users
Start with features that are immediately useful to the clinician logged into the EHR. Do not start by promoting delayed benefits for others.