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A user-centered model for web site design: needs assessment, user interface design, and rapid prototyping.

Mable B Kinzie¹, Wendy F Cohn, Marti F Julian

¹Instructional Technology, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA. kinzie@virginia.edu

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

|June 28, 2002

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Designing effective health information websites is crucial. A user-centered design process, including needs assessment and prototyping, was used to create the Health Heritage family health history website.

Area of Science:

Health Informatics
Human-Computer Interaction
Web Design

Background:

The internet is a primary source for health information, necessitating effective website design.
User-centered design (UCD) is a key methodology for creating usable and effective digital health tools.

Purpose of the Study:

To present an effective user-centered design model for health information websites.
To illustrate the application of this model in developing the Health Heritage family health history website.

Main Methods:

The study employed a user-centered design process.
Key techniques included needs assessment, goal/task analysis, user interface design, and rapid prototyping.
The model was applied to develop the Health Heritage website (www.healthheritage.net).

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Main Results:

The Health Heritage website facilitates secure patient family health history recording.
The website provides physicians with health history analysis, risk identification, and recommendations.
Visual examples demonstrated that the UCD process resulted in an easy-to-use website.

Conclusions:

The user-centered design model is effective for developing usable health information websites.
This approach is adaptable to various content areas and media types.
The Health Heritage website serves as a practical example of successful UCD implementation in health informatics.