World Usability Day

Posted by: Martin Chapman Fromm | 08 November 2007

Today is World Usability Day. This year’s theme is Healthcare. We’ve been having a think about what we could come up with. Ideas range from redesigning the stretcher-ambulance experience, through to inflatable instant slings (and even fake suns (sun-on-a-stick)) for the dark winter streets of the UK (to combat SAD).

However, one idea has stood out from the rest, and that’s something that’ll nicely slots into our Web Apps initiative: Hospital Breadcrumbs, or Healthcrumbs… we’re not entirely sure of the title yet, but the concept’s a good’n! Based squarely on the patient experience in a hospital, it will be a means to communicate a patient’s past and current situation clearly, by means of mobile technology, and even what to expect in the immediate future whilst at hospital. We’ll blog further once the idea starts to take more shape.

Our ideas aside, for anyone who’s spent enough time in hospitals or dealt with wider healthcare issues, the experience leaves a lot of room for improvement. It’ll be interesting to see what usability experts come up with as a result of today, and if in fact, something wide reaching comes as a result.

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