Design for Patient Dignity
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
A major goal of cognitive design is to create artifacts that reliably cause a specific “think and feel” or mental state in the people that interact with them. The UK’s Design Council has taken on just such a task in trying to redesign the hospital environment to improve a patient’s sense of dignity. The program is bearing fruit including new designs for reclining day chairs, room screens, beds, gowns, washroom pods and other components.
My hope is to push behind these designs to understand if and how they modeled the cognition of dignity. In the meantime, you can follow the link above to videos on each of the results or just look at the photos on the next page.
