5-Card Friday
A Bi-Weekly Update from the ITS UX Team
The 9 Best Healthcare Websites, According to Digital Designers & Strategists
As of 2019, there were 318,000+ health-related mobile applications available to consumers (nearly double than 2017), and investments of $7.4 billion for 359 different U.S. digital health startups.
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The 9 Best Healthcare Websites, According to Digital Designers & Strategists
Digital proved that it could help health organizations grow their reach, serve their patients, empower their teams—and, in return, expand their margins.
In the competitive space, a good website can be a great first step to positioning your organization. It can help you grow, serve, and empower. It can help you stand out.
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Building habit-forming products
Why do most smartphone owners check their phone within 15 minutes of waking up and check up-to 80 times a day? Why do we find ourselves mindlessly scrolling Instagram or automatically Google when we have a question?
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What is a Habit?
Hooked: How to make habit-forming products by Nil Eyer explains a four-step process that makes using an app become a habit. It answers why some apps are incredibly popular while others aren’t. What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit and is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?
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Moving away from pre-COVID perceptions: Reimaging the Designs
Who would have imagined that a worldwide epidemic would have led to an increase in the practice of digital devices we consider every day for entertainment, work, socialization, and mainly healthcare.
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Moving away from pre-COVID perceptions: Reimaging the Designs
Around 11% of consumers were making use of telehealth in 2019, says a report by McKinsey. However, that ratio was turned 50% in May of 2019. Health officials witnessed 50 to 175 times more patients via telehealth than they were having pre-COVID-19.
As we move through the pandemic, we must keep our minds creative instead of getting jammed in pre-COVID impressions while giving design to a new product.
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Remote work diary: How Spanish startup Jeff came together while working apart
Learn how a Spanish startup dealt with the sudden change of remote work.
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Remote work diary: How Spanish startup Jeff came together while working apart
An epicenter of Covid-19, Spain was one of the first countries to suffer the pandemic’s devastation. Thousands of businesses had to immediately vacate their offices and transition to working from home when the Spanish government mandated a lockdown.
One of the impacted businesses was Jeff, a “super app” founded in 2015 that aims to help people achieve “the good good life” by providing laundry and dry-cleaning home delivery, as well as fitness, beauty and relaxation services, such as massage. In a matter of days, more than 600 of the fast growing start-up’s employees across Spain became a remote workforce.
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How Atlassian’s design teams go from idea to execution
Design is an endlessly challenging world. Pre-project roadblocks and lack of alignment often leads to delays and prevent the best work from getting done. But design doesn’t have to be an uphill climb—just take Atlassian for example. The team created Confluence templates to disrupt their most common creative hurdles.
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How Atlassian’s design teams go from idea to execution
“When we start a new design project, it’s often a blank slate,” says Chan Kim, lead designer for Confluence at Atlassian. “Templates focused on outlining key elements of the design process enable my team to get started faster by reducing the hurdle of ‘where do we need to start?’”
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