How Support Coordinators Help Navigate Disability Services
Navigating the complex landscape of disability services can be overwhelming. It’s especially challenging for members of the disability community or their families who…
Category: Health
What is the Most Common Home Care Service?
Home care services provide essential support for individuals who need assistance with daily activities due to aging, illness, or disability, allowing them to…
Design Aid recipients to take a stance on homelessness, autism and mental health
We are pleased to announce the 2018 Design Aid recipients. Three participants were selected by our judges this year. They were: Ask Izzy, an…
Design Aid program that makes finger pricking for Diabetes a thing of the distant
We proudly announce that Deakin University will receive our Design Aid program’s first recipient, the non-invasive smart solution to blood glucose monitoring. Our…
Designing for an Aging Population
The elderly population is growing and is expected to double by 2050. There’s a lot of focus on developing products and services that will…
How to transform legacy health software into a modern user interface
Is your software looking like it belongs in the 90s or today? You’re not the only one who thinks so. It might still…
Design Principles for eHealth
During recent research, an ED doctor shared this tip with me. It was funny at first, but I realized he meant it. He…
Problems with being a “problem-solver
A generation of designers is selling themselves short. An older man and a young man decided to build their house. They set off…
Designing for the Old
Digital Technology: How Older People Use It Differently It’s easy to forget the existence of older people working in tech. Most tech workers are…
Eight of ten people are unable to sign up for e-health records.
A user-centred design approach is a key to increasing PCEHR use, Navy Design. Navy Design, a design firm specializing in medical software and…