How Atomic Design Methodology Revolutionized Design for a Healthcare Data Provider
Project Description
During the winter of 2018 as part of Accenture Digital Mx, I had the chance to be a Product Design for Press Ganey, a South Bend, Indiana-based health care company with the industry’s largest database of the patient, caregiver, and physician feedback, field by a world-class intelligence and analytics platform.
The Design System redesign empowered Content Designers with the information to make quick decisions and scale themselves.
By componentizing the site, collaborating on the discovery, and making components easier to find, read, and use, we’re helping designers be even more efficient and power prosperity worldwide for our customers.
Design Thinking, Agile Methodologies, Design Strategy, Research, User Interviews, Ethnographic Research, System Mapping, User Flows, Style Guides, Atomic Design
Design System, User Flows, Style Guides, Hi-Fidelity Wireframes
Introduction
Design plays a crucial role in enhancing user experience and providing the right information to users at the right time. A well-designed user interface can make all the difference in the world when it comes to user engagement and retention. Healthcare data providers understand the importance of a seamless user experience, but creating a design that fits their unique needs can be challenging. This is where Atomic Design Methodology comes in.
In this case study, we’ll explore how a healthcare data provider was able to revolutionize their design process using Atomic Design Methodology. From creating a more efficient design system to enhancing user experience, this case study shows the potential of Atomic Design Methodology in the healthcare industry.
The Challenge of Healthcare Data Design.
Healthcare data providers deal with vast amounts of complex data and designing an interface that effectively presents this data is a significant challenge. A user interface that is difficult to navigate or understand can result in critical errors and a frustrating user experience. Furthermore, healthcare data providers often have a diverse range of users with different roles and varying levels of technical expertise. Creating a design that can accommodate these different needs can be overwhelming without a structured design process.
Introduction to Atomic Design Methodology:
Healthcare data providers deal with vast amounts of complex data and designing an interface that effectively presents this data is a significant challenge. A user interface that is difficult to navigate or understand can result in critical errors and a frustrating user experience. Furthermore, healthcare data providers often have a diverse range of users with different roles and varying levels of technical expertise. Creating a design that can accommodate these different needs can be overwhelming without a structured design process.
Streamlining the Design Process with Atomic Design:
Before adopting Atomic Design Methodology, the healthcare data provider faced several design challenges. Their design process was time-consuming and lacked a clear structure. There was also a lot of inconsistency in their design elements, leading to confusion and errors. By adopting Atomic Design Methodology, the healthcare data provider was able to streamline their design process and create a more efficient design system.
Improving User Experience with Atomic Design:
In addition to improving their design process, Atomic Design Methodology also helped the healthcare data provider to enhance user experience. By breaking down design elements into smaller parts, they were able to create a more cohesive and consistent design. This made it easier for users to navigate the interface, find the information they needed, and complete their tasks efficiently.
The Benefits of Atomic Design Methodology
Atomic Design Methodology has several benefits for healthcare data providers. It provides a clear structure for design elements, making it easier to create a consistent and efficient design system. It also enhances user experience by creating a more user-friendly interface. By breaking down design elements into smaller parts, Atomic Design Methodology allows for greater scalability and flexibility, making it easier to adapt to changing needs and requirements.
As a result, we set the goal for V1.0 of the design system to build the foundation by creating a compressive, scalable visual language and building atomic components most often reused and combined to make user experiences.
Serves as a design accelerator that produces rapid, iterative, high-fidelity designs.
Enables product teams to focus their efforts on solving customer needs.
Allows designers and Developers to keep UI design and code in sync.
Design systems lead to cohesive, consistent experiences.
Components vs. Patterns
Critical to the success of the system was alignment with all teams on the difference in the parts we would be designing and building.
Components are distinctive UI elements that are built to be used over and over throughout a product.
They are most often actionable elements like buttons, input fields, selections, or tool tips.
Patterns refer to recurring elements or practices throughout a product, such as navigation, tables, notification, alerts, or modals. They are versatile and often contain multiple components.
Design, Develop, Document, Publish.
The process to make and maintain the design system required cross-functional collaboration. Using an agile approach, we set up sprints to include design critiques and regular reviews to keep tasks a manageable size and identify and address problems quickly.
Design
Chose the appropriate design tool to create the necessary parts of the design system.
Develop
Build and test an appropriate Visual foundation for the development team
Publish
Create a Single Source of Truth with the Design System documentation for the users to access de information.
The Result
The result is a single source of truth among all the teams, to scale the system in an efficient way.
Our Design System brought design time down by close to 60%, the organization now has a common ground for Design and Development and other critical areas of the organization to work together to create a common vision of the product.
The new design System not only collects all components, guidelines, and processes across all of the organization, with a small team of Product Designers can work efficiently on large-scale projects together.
The main goal was to provide the development team with the finished list of elements that are used within the applications and a description of how each element interact with the whole ecosystem in the app.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Atomic Design Methodology has the potential to revolutionize design processes in the healthcare industry. By breaking down design elements into smaller parts, it can create a more efficient design system that is easier to maintain and scale. This results in a more consistent and user-friendly interface, which can significantly enhance user experience. With the increasing importance of data in the healthcare industry, it is essential to have a design system that can effectively present this data to users.
The case study of the healthcare data provider discussed in this article shows the power of Atomic Design Methodology in streamlining the design process and improving user experience. By adopting this methodology, they were able to create a more efficient and consistent design system that could easily adapt to changing needs and requirements. The healthcare data provider was able to provide their users with a better user experience and improve their overall design process, leading to higher user engagement and retention.
In conclusion, Atomic Design Methodology has the potential to revolutionize design processes in the healthcare industry and create a more efficient and user-friendly interface. Its benefits are numerous, and its potential applications are vast. Any healthcare data provider looking to improve their design process and enhance user experience should consider adopting Atomic Design Methodology.
250+
Components
60%
Efficiency in Design
800+
Pages of Documentation
