1. Design Doing:
A disruptive health
system model
between designers,
clinicians & users
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3. Part 1: HEAL Overview
Part 2: Hands-on Design Thinking
TToday: 2-Part Workshop
7. We are living through the 4th industrial
revolution, with an urgent need for
transition models that scaffold learning
and transformation.
Design ‘thinking and doing’ offers a
roadmap, a partnership with fresh
creative thinkers who thrive on
unpredictability, chaos and innovation.
8. The transformative power of design & designers,
in collaboration with clinicians and consumers
HEAL is Design Thinking in Action
9. because “the wisdom is the system”,
DT and HEAL is a partnership
between healthcare teams, consumers &
the design community..
because “the wisdom is the system”,
DT and HEAL is a partnership
between healthcare teams, consumers &
the design community….
10. Bridge Labs,
HEAL &
the QUT Design
Research Team
Bridge Labs-
2022 Queensland Health
Award for Innovation
11. HEAL Genesis & Journey – 2020-2022
HEAL is a circuit-
breaker, co-creating a
radical, genuinely
collaborative &
experimental mindset
prioritizing forward
movement & rapid
implementation
12. Illustrations: Simon Kneebone
What is Design?
The core function of design is
to:“disrupt, contest, invent, direct,
coordinate, respond, provoke and project”
Designers use their aesthetic & technical
skills to create and develop products,
environments, systems, and services –
alongside making and creating, design is
also a strategic and creative problem-
solving process.
Rodgers, P. & Bremner, C. (2019). Design School: After Boundaries and Disciplines. Vernon Press. P185.
13. The Participatory Human-Centred
Design Thinking Process is NOT Linear
Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school)
model of design thinking breaks the process down into six
iterative stages
20. QUT-Led: Dr Manuela Taboada, Thalia Bruner, with Kirsty Leo
Animating Cultural Safety
21. QUT-Led: Prof Evonne Miller
WM: Connecting Rehab Services
Across West Moreton
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Videography
• Photovoice
• Design Thinking
• Exhibition
22. Creating space for critical transformative dialogues,
reflection & action – Arts-Based Research & Design
1 Min: Sketching “Exceptional Moments” of
Practice
25. Design Processes for EMPATHY – and identifying staff & Patient Safety
PRIORITIES
Personas: an
inspiring,
compelling,
memorable and
believable driver for
change – eg poster
size images of
personas Design Futuring – in Creative Ways
Making Integrated & Virtual
Care a Reality –
using personas
26. Telehealth Hub Project
Project Team: QUT (Evonne Miller, Leonie Sanderson,
Simon Lowe) TSU (Alison Kelly, Daniel Best) & HIU
(Satyan Chari, Anna Wesselman)
Assist QH staff to understand and use telehealth
more easily:
(1) How might we make it easier for staff to access
information about how to use telehealth?
(2) How might we create resources to help QH staff
easily access telehealth tools?
A spinning icon with different
telehealth terms to make site
feel inclusive and also indicate
broad terminology used and
how encompassing it is..
27. RIGHT BRAIN
Divergent
‘FLARE’
Design Thinking is a Creative Problem-Solving Process
The flare process of divergent
thinking welcomes as many wild,
improbable and radical ideas as
possible, creating a wide number
of potential solutions - often
outside participants mindsets
and comfort zones
LEFT BRAIN
Convergent
‘FOCUS’
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/convergent-thinking
The focus or convergent stage narrows
down all these ideas to the best – “the a-
ha moment” when a clear preferred
forward path emerges – which is
prototyped and tested
29. Rules for Success
1.Embrace uncertainty
2.Defer judgement
3.Stay focused
4.Encourage ‘Wild Ideas’
5.Be inclusive - build on ideas
of others
6.Be willing to feel
uncomfortable & unsure
30. 1. Discuss, write & order ideas: closest
to centre priority
2. Identify top idea for today
3. Move to preferred table group
WHAT'S ON YOUR RADAR?
VISUALIZING PRIORITIES
ACTI
VITY
1
32. DT Step 1 –
EMPATHISE
Designers use
empathy – the
understanding of
people and how
they relate to
products and
environments - to
design new
experiences.
Put yourself in your user’s shoes
Think from their perspective
35. STEP 2: Define –
the HMW
Question
A good HMW: is interesting and inspiring; needs to be narrow, but not too
directive; focuses on user / environment / experience; identifies an impactful
36. DT STEP 2: Define – the HMW question?
Turns your challenge into actionable provocations and sharpens your
focus – not too broad or too specific, ambitious but feasible!
Turn problems/insights you’ve identified into a HME:
• How might we use technology in rehabilitation?
• How might we design out procedural pain?
• How might we create a culture of patient safety in the ED?
• How might we make telehealth mainstream?
• How might we better educate patients / consumers / families about X
ACTIVITY 3:
FORMULATE YOUR
HMW QUESTION
37. Ideation - forcing yourself
to articulate your ideas to
someone else in words or
sketches, inadvertently
advances your knowledge
& thinking!
DT STEP 3:
IDEATION
38. DT STEP 3:
IDEATION
Brainstorm & create
solutions. Share ideas -
all ideas worthy.
Yes and’ thinking –
what if? All of us are
smarter than any of us!
!
39.
40. Building on Ideas
Write YOUR HEADLINE for 2050
S
te
p2: Write your HEADLINE here…
S
te
p1: What is the most appropriate media outlet to spruik your achievements?
Health
Excellence
Accelerator
Lab
2050
41. Inspired by de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats –
embody different perspectives
CONSUMER
SPACE
FAMILY STAFF
TECH.
COMM’S.
Deb Cushing & Evonne Miller. (2020). Creating Great Places: Evidence-based urban design for health and wellbeing. Routledge.
42. Putting on Different THEORY HATS –
Theory-Storming in Action – ‘Design a Utopian Place’
Deb Cushing & Evonne Miller. (2020). Creating Great Places: Evidence-based urban design for health and wellbeing. Routledge.
43. many ideation tools & activities to choose from..
focus on RAPID IDEA GENERATION
eg CRAZY EIGHTS, THEN SCAMPER –
lateral thinking technique using 7 prompts to
challenge the status quo & explore new possibilities
45. ACTIVITY 4: IDEA
GENERATION /
IDEATION
Aim for a minimum of 10 different ideas.
Think differently, from the perspective of:
Patient / Family / Staff / Space /
Technology / Communications.
46. Prototypes, Brown (2009) reminds us, “should command only as much time,
effort, and investment as are needed to generate useful feedback and evolve an
idea” (p. 19) - so, today, drawing, narrative, butchers paper & headline
DT STEP 4:
PROTOTYPING
Brown, T. (2009). Change by design: how design thinking transforms
organizations and inspires innovation. HarperCollins .
WHAT IDEA WILL
YOUR TEAM
PROTOPYPE –
SUCCESS
47. 47
DT STEP 4: PROTOTYPING
Make Ideas Tangible: Show, Don’t Tell
Prototypes are physical models of ideas,
which help communicate, test and
refine. Prototypes are action-orientated,
driven by the design question: what can
be learned from this model?
Typically easy, quick and cheap to
create, low-fidelity (‘low-fi’) prototypes
(concept sketches, storyboards,
cardboard models) are most common in
DT workshops, with high-fidelity (‘high-
fi’) prototypes representing the look, feel
and basic functionality of the final
product
48. PROTOTYPE
YOUR ONE IDEA
• Build representations / mock-
ups
• Storyboards: fail fast / iterate
quickly
• Think about best media to
design/present your solution
• 2 min TV ad / 2 min
performance
• Physical object ?
TODAY: MAGAZINE HEADLINE!
49. PITCHES / PROTOPYPES MAY BE
IN SONG, DRAMA SKETCHES,
FOOD PROPS & / OR DRAWING.
Start with WHY -
empathy/persona/problem
50. ACTIVITY 4: IDEA
GENERATION /
IDEATION
Aim for a minimum of 10 different ideas.
Think differently, from the perspective of:
Patient / Family / Staff / Space /
Technology / Communications.
52. RADICAL
has disruptive
potential
TIMELY
provides care
when and where
it is needed
QUALITY
maintains or improves
quality of care
INTERDISCIPLINARY
helps teams to work
together
SUSTAINABLE
addresses resource
constraints
Each group will have 1 minute
to present your idea.
Include Team/Project Name
Take notes & rate idea based
on criteria below – a successful idea
would be one that is:
53.
54. DT Step 5:
Test
DT Step 6:
Implement /
Assess
Iterate quickly: test ideas & gather feedback
• Share story - what works, impediments
• Leave Feedback - Post-it Notes, Dot Stickers
Aka rapid PDSA Cycles
57. “the illiterate of the
21st century will not
be those who cannot
read or write,
but those
who cannot learn,
unlearn & relearn”
Alvin Toffler
(1970) Future Shock
58. Hardin Tibbs (2021). Making the Future Visible:
HARDIN TIBBS
– 2021
viewing the
future as a
psychological,
strategic
landscape
the future as a strategic landscape – worthwhile, inspiring & achievable
59. perspective –
“let’s imagine, together”
possible/preferable futures -
enabling the creative co-
creation of a compelling vision
for change
Designers have the creative skills to visualise and
communicate novel, inspiring visions of potential,
possible, changed futures - design methods:
(1) create space for difficult but required quality conversations;
(2) disrupting multiple legacy systems (IT, organizational
structures, processes) needs resilience, energy & creative vision
(3) serve as a NORTH STAR for strategic roadmaps;
(3) fosters a learning organization;
(4) amplify voices, supporting the patient work of healing and the
clinician/staff work of clinical care – caring for people who care
ICE BREAKER
Good morning, I’m Evonne Miller – Professor of Design Psychology and Director of the QUT Design Lab. Today, we’re going to discuss how a design-led approach might be a catalyst for positive change in healthcare, positively disrupting the system
PURPOSE
For our healthcare system to successfully respond to the challenges of population ageing, chronic disease, workforce shortages and system fragmentation, fresh, creative thinking is needed. This is what a design-led approach offers – design thinking and doing.
Before I talk about how our design-led projects are transforming health, let me first pay my respects to and acknowledge the tridtional owners of the diverse lands where we are meeting – for me, it is the Turrbual and Yaggar people. I would like to express my gratitude for the sharing of these land. and my sorrow for the social, spiritual, economic and cultural toll of that sharing. I recognize that these lands have always been places for teaching, research, and learning – and so its appropriate that we are gathered here today to reflect on new approaches/
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There is no doubt that our healthcare system is under pressure, especially in these “living with COVID times’. As healthcare leaders, educators and researchers, as well as managing the ongoing impact of COVID, we must better manage:
workforce shortages, an ageing population, rising rates of chronic disease, reduced budgets, hospital ramping and disparities in access for our most vulnerable populations. //
There is an urgent need for a fresh approach to address these persistent wicked problems facing healthcare. // That is the focus of my masterclass today - how designers, working in collaboration with consumers and clinicians, might be the transformative change agents healthcare is seeking. // Today, we will walk through the design thinking process and the value for a design-led approach for healthcare, as well as the key steps and tools.
As you will see, a design-led approach- will
reduce system inefficiencies, maintain the delivery of high-quality careand improve the capacity of the healthcare system to innovate.
You might be wondering how our design-led process differs from complexity or implementation science, systems thinking or consumer co-design; in fact, the magic of design is that it integrates and builds on all those approaches AND also offers a very different and practical lens to create the innovative , responsive, and adaptive healthcare system we urgently need // DT fosters fresh ideas, innovation, and action - and is the transformation enabler our system urgently needs
Right now, you may be wondering: what exactly is design, design thinking – and a design-led approach to healthcare innovation?
Design starts with change. Political scientist and Nobel Prize Laurette Herbert Simon (1969) defines design as: the “transformation of existing conditions into preferred ones”
Design focuses on making products, places, technologies and services– and our interactions with them– more effective, more efficient, and more enjoyable; the process of ‘design thinking and doing’ offers a creative and human-centered approach to problem-solving. Designers have diverse disciplinary backgrounds - from spatial design to interactive and industrial design – yet what unifies us is our approach and outcomes: design imagines what might be and creates new things.
In essence, what the DT process does is to teach you to think like a designer; to experiment, to think differently, to be comfortable with uncertainty – and at its essence, DT is Human-Centred Design. It is a process, mindset, and approach to solving complex problems. DT or Human-Centered Design, is based on a philosophy that empowers an individual or team to design products, services, systems, and experiences that address the core needs of those who are experiencing the problem – the end user.
THE STEPS
To illustrate the diversity of the DT and Doing process, I’m going to quicky share some examples from HEAL – the QLD Health funded Healthcare Excellence Accelerator, which has put designers into 7 Hospitals and Health Services across QLD, delivering 30+ diverse design-led projects. You can also access info on these via the QR code on your tables – to see videos and resources, including some of the handouts from today
This image may be familiar: it is the 6th floor of QCH – which we recently re-designed using principles of playful placemaking and wayfinding. The main narratve image – co-designed with consumers and clincians – was to build on an existing large central artform of a parrot in the central atrium – and now we have different local parrots at play, on the walls and floor, which now lead children and their parents to different spaces; You can see here different coloured feathers on the ground, which you follow – our approach here uses form, messaging, and color to aid in playful wayfinding, with memorable visual landmarks – I am came in at the waterfall lift or the sunflower lift – creating easily memorable and enjoyable navigation. The parrots on the walls are doing different activities, which maintains engagement and a sense of discovery – even though this environment may be one that may be experienced regularly.
Policy Review & Website Analysis: A brief desktop review of existing policy and research and QH websites containing telehealth information and resources and their usage
Insights Workshop with Telehealth Support Unit: A focus on findings from the coordinator interviews and implications
Telehealth Coordinator Interviews: Interviews with the majority of telehealth coordinators across Queensland
Clinician Interviews: Short interviews with clinicians who currently use telehealth in their daily work
Website Design Workshop with Telehealth Coordinators: Design workshop to create top-level design
The process of design thinking emphasizes, at different points divergent and convergent thinking –termed “flare and focus”.
The flare process of divergent thinking welcomes as many wild, improbable and radical ideas as possible, creating a wide number of potential solutions often outside participants mindsets and comfort zones. This is most evident in the ideation stage, which emphasizes creativity and that there are no ‘wrong answers’.
The focus or convergent stage summarizes categories, prioritizes top ideas and narrows down all of these ideas to the best – “the “a-ha moment” when a clear preferred forward path emerges – and this is prototyped and tested. Prototypes, as Brown (2020) reminds us, “should command only as much time, effort, and investment as are needed to generate useful feedback and evolve an idea” (p. 19) – and so participants here wrote and drew short pitches on butchers paper.
NEED LARGE A0 HAND-OUT – SARAH.
If had time – would do this. Not today.
redesigning the procedural patient journe
By forcing yourself to articulate your ideas to someone else in words or sketches, you are inadvertently advancing your thinking. Meanwhile, your collaborators inevitably bring different frames of reference — and fresh thinking — to the problem, which will ultimately elevate the work
30 Ideas in 10 Minutes Challenge
Longshot (Impossible)Delightful (Challenging but Possible)
Practical (Easy/Doable)
Remember -
Be curious – 4 Q’s: I like.. I wish.. I wonder… What if?
It was based, looselty, on de-bono’s six thinking hats.
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Prototyping is another creativity technique – and a critical step in the DT process. //Prototypes are physical models of ideas, and should be be easy, quick and cheap to create.
By giving concrete form to abstract ideas, prototypes help communicate, test and refine ideas. Prototypes are action-orientated, driven by the design Q: what can be learned from this model? How can it be changed/improved? What other ideas does it spark? In the design process, prototypes are essential for early and iterative concept development – by the design team, clients & potential users// The focus is on direct user interaction and feedback – and in an ideal world, the prototypes will be tested by real users, so they can identify the basic functional requirements for the proposed solution. // Good prototypes are provocations, about what might be – and stimulate conversations and feedback about the relative importance, desirability, practicality of different features. Prototypes are designed to spark ideas - and to be altered and to be changed.
And that's why - in most cases - we want the level of detail in a prototype – what is called the fidelity – to be low. Low fidelity (low-fi) prototypes are made from sticky notes, basic cardboard models, sketches and storyboards –perfect for high-level brainstorming and for developing, refining and changing ideas. Low-fi prototypes are most common in DT workshops, while high-fidelity (‘high-fi’) prototypes represent the more final look, feel and basic functionality of the final product. Whatever you want to develop – whether it is a product, a service, a physical space, a system or process, or a website – you can and should use a prototype during the development of the idea.
While DT and design is not really magic, I do believe that designers are agents of change – and that determination, in collaboration with consumers and clinicians, can really be transformative. I want to end with a quote from Nobel Prize Laurette Herbert Simon who argued that – as agents of change – the task of designers is – and let me quote “
“is not to predict the future; our task is to design a future for a sustainable and acceptable world, and then devote our efforts to bringing that future about. We are not observers of the future; we are actors who, whether we wish to or not, by our actions and our very existence, will determine the future’s shape (Simon, 2000, p. 1).
In summary, the point Simon is making – and the one I hope I have made today – is that while the challenges facing healthcare are significant, the tools, techniques, positive energy and innovative mindsets of design – of design thinking and design doing – offer a critical roadmap for transformative change. If we don’t engage in design thinking and doing, our healthcare system will continue to struggle. // When we engage in design methods, we untap the creative mindsets and innovation needed for transformative change – and empower clinicians, staff, and designers to work together to solve these challenges.
The second thought I want to leave you with is more of a roadmap, than a rubber band – for while it is a great analogy and reminder, it doesn’t neccarily tell us how to embark on this journey. What we need to do is to see the future as a strategic landscape – a concept just introduced by Hardin Tibbs, in a just published article in World Futures Review. In that paper he argues – convincingly - that the obvious wish to know about the future has led most business to develop information about the future. This is, of course, essential, but it is not enough on its own –and full information about the future will never be available for informed decision-making.
Tibbs argues corporate leaders must develop strategic conviction about the future shape and direction of their organization, and his strategic landscape is a place from which to get strategic motivation, and help develop the strategic conviction essential for visionary leadership
The star symbolizes the enduring purpose of the strategic self, a perennial strategic destination that will never actually be reached or completed but which reflects the continuing aspiration and social role of the organization.
The mountain is the strategic goal; the peak the strategic actor intends to climb as a medium-term objective. This needs to be worthwhile, inspiring and highly challenging but achievable with an effort. At the top, the strategic actor can once again use the star for orientation in choosing the next mountain to climb.
The chessboard represents the changing conditions the strategic actor will have to face on the way to the mountain-top. There is a need for continual maneuvring and tactical adjustment, as future conditions - and the actions of other players - keep changing. The journey to the mountain peak could follow many different paths, which may well change direction or fork unexpectedly. Even with the mountain peak clearly in view, there is still a need for continual learning and adaptation.
It has been my pleasure to begin this conversation with you about how design-led approaches might transform healthcare – and the six key steps in the DT method, starting always with empathy and then working through the steps of defining the HMW challenge, ideation, prototyping, testing and implementing. The value of design thinking is that it creates space for the conversations about challenges and our responses – there is a lovely quote from management guru Peter Drucker that the best way to predict the future is to create it - and DT gives us the tools to embark on that journey.
If you would like to know more about any of these projects, or how to get support through HEAL, please email me or contact with me on Linked-In. You can also download the HEAL project report from our website - LIFT BOOK - and I can post you physical copies, on request.
QUESTIONS I’m interested in any questions you may have - perhaps about a specific project, the design process or opportunities for your health service,