Part I Participatory Human Centred Co-Design 2 Virtual Multi-Clinician Care for Diabetes: the Virtual Outpatient Integration for Chronic Disease (VOICeD) telehealth project 3 Cancer Wellness: Co-creating a new virtual service delivery model
4 Equitable Access to Stroke Care: Visualising systems of care for stroke patients
Part II Design Thinking 5 It takes a village': Co-designing family-centred care in a paediatric intensive care unit 6 NICU mum to PICU researcher: A reflection on place, people and the power of shared experience. 7 Bringing the university to the hospital: QUT Design Internships at the Queensland Childrens’ Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit 8 Designing out-procedural pain: the value of a rapid one hour co-design sprint 9 Co-designing Design Thinking Workshops
10 Introducing Design Thinking for Senior Health Professionals
Part III Prototyping
11 More than a cute thing to do
Part IV Design Doing 12 Parroting playful places: Designing wayfinding for the Queensland Children’s Hospital 13 “Whose heartbeat is that?”: An animation approach to promoting cultural safety in healthcare 14 Co-designing access to just healthcare for all consumers 15 Graphics and Icons for healthcare with a focus on cultural appropriateness, diversity and inclusion
16 Agency and Access: Redesigning the prison health request process
Part V Design Visioning 17 Co-designing the future: Technology-enabled care in regional communities 18 Connecting rehabilitation teams: A design-led, arts-based and appreciative inquiry inspired approach to organizational change in healthcare 19 Emergency Room Exits and Entrances 20 Design as a catalyst for ‘systemic designability’: Reflecting on the origins of HEAL and its vital role in transforming healthcare in Queensland
PROFESSOR EVONNE MILLER QUT Design Lab, School of Design Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
Evonne is Professor of Design Psychology at Queensland University of Technology and Director of the QUT Design Lab. Co-Director of the HEAL (Healthcare Excellence AcceLerator) initiative, her research centres on design for health, drawing on participatory co-design, arts-based and knowledge translation approaches to understand, communicate, improve and re-design the experience of healthcare. She is the author, co-author, or editor of 4 books, exploring how we can create places that foster both planetary and human health.
DR SATYAN CHARI
Healthcare Improvement Unit, Clinical Excellence Queensland.
Dr Satyan Chari is Co-Director of the HEAL (Healthcare Excellence AcceLerator) initiative. Satyan leads engagement within Queensland Health’s Clinical Excellence Queensland (CEQ) team and the wider health system. Clinically trained in occupational therapy and with a PhD in patient safety, Satyan has cross-disciplinary expertise in human factors engineering, participatory design, complexity science, and systems innovation. He advises globally on quality innovation programs.
DR ABBE WINTER
QUT Design Lab Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Abigail Winter is a results-driven writing specialist, collaborative mentor, and independent researcher, skilled in the analysis of words and data for user needs. Abbe is a researcher trainer, leader, and mentor, with over 20 years’ experience in quality assurance, and change and project management. While her PhD focused on what helps workers in higher education cope with large-scale organisational change, and she was part of the small team that created and developed the concept of academagogy (the scholarly leadership of learning), her more recent research has focussed upon professional identity, developing writing skills, and reflective practice.
How Designers are Transforming Healthcare is a bold manifesto for change, demonstrating the value of a strategic design-led approach. Drawing on a rich array of real-world projects, this book illustrates how designers, in collaboration with clinicians and consumers, are co-creating transformative change across healthcare environments, products, services, and systems.
In a fascinating multi-voice conversation, this book outlines how design methods and mindsets, including co-design, prototyping, design and futures thinking, facilitates creative problem-solving. The ideas, tools, and challenges in How Designers are Transforming Healthcare make it a vital text - a doer’s guide - for designers, clinicians, academics, consumers, and policymakers seeking innovative strategies for engagement, innovation and improvement in healthcare.