5 Steps to Enhance the User Experience When you design a text-based digital health product, such as a website or an app, it’s a good idea to employ user experience (UX) design. In other words, do what you can to enhance the experience of your users. Why should I use UX design...
Design Health Materials for People With Low Vision If you design text-based health materials, it’s important to make them accessible to people with disabilities—including those who have low vision. This means responding to their communication needs and preferences. Why should I make health...
Tips for Clear Communication in Healthcare Do you work for a healthcare organization in leadership, administration, or patient care? Then this article is for you. It offers tips for communicating well with patients. We’ll define healthcare communication and look at some examples. We’ll...
How To Write Effectively About Health Writing is a key part of health communication. Along with design, text is used in written materials for health education programs, public health campaigns, patient care, and research. It appears in print materials, such as handouts, posters, and books....
7 Barriers to Effective Communication in Healthcare Are you a healthcare provider who finds it challenging to communicate well with patients? You’re not alone. Many providers face the same challenge. What’s the downside of poor healthcare communication? When you don’t communicate well...
Motivate Readers To Take Action You’ve written text that promotes a healthy behavior—such as eating more fruits and vegetables, wearing a bike helmet, or getting more exercise. You’ve used plain language and other strategies to make the text easy for readers to understand and use. But you also...
Get To Know Your Readers You’ve identified your intended readers—the people you want your health materials to reach. Before you start writing the materials, it’s critical to learn all you can about your readers’ communication needs and preferences. Why should I learn about my readers? ...
3 Tools To Assess Health Materials You’ve developed health materials. How can you make sure these materials are easy to understand and use? One option is to use assessment tools. What are 3 assessment tools? Let’s look at three tools for assessing health materials: Patient...
Webinar Transcript Webinar Description: Making health decisions can be a complicated and personal process. Decision aids can help patients and their caregivers understand their options and empower them to have productive conversations with their doctors. Using a human-centered design...
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