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User-centred design for digital health

The following four learning modules have been created by Ctrl Group and made accessible under creative commons – through our partnership with Oxford BioDesign. Our hope is that they can be used as broadly as possible and help to support the next generation of global leaders in digital health with the understanding and tools they need to succeed.

Each module is based on content from the Ctrl Group ‘Playbook’ (the name given to our ISO-13485 Quality Management System) and structured as ‘flipped classroom’ training. This allows people to review the content in their own time and then come together to work through the tasks and use them in their own work.

Ctrl Group plan to build on these initial four modules and, as such, are interested in both feedback, questions or ideas to improve the modules and also to build our further modules. If you have ideas of suggestions please email us at learn@ctrl-group.com or get in touch through @ctrl-group on Twitter.

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What you will cover

- Planning your project
- Discover how to bring a diverse team together, how to plan your project in iterations and how to document your design decisions.
- User research: understanding users
- Explore all stages of research from recruiting participants and obtaining informed consent to analysing insights.
- Design for healthcare
- Understand agile approaches to product development, Get an overview of development stages: alpha, beta, launch and post launch.
- User research: validating your design
- How to test your product or service with health care users.

Time commitment

This course should take approximately 1 hour per module to complete.

Who made this course?

Ctrl Group believe that digital health and digital medical research has the potential to personalise healthcare and make it more effective for everyone, wherever they are. Ctrl Group build digital health products like www.fora.health and www.cognitionkit.com from the ground up, conduct innovative digital medical research, educate future leaders in healthcare technology and apply best practices to achieve better outcomes.

Oxford BioDesign’s mission is to train the next generation of global leaders in digital health innovation. The Oxford Biodesign programme teaches the Biodesign Process – a systematic and proven approach to clinical needs finding and creatively inventing new biomedical technologies that take into account the important stakeholders of current healthcare settings, with a particular focus on digital health.