Design Principles for Healthcare Industry

Design principles or guidelines play a crucial role in designing for a specific platform/ domain. They are sets of recommendations towards good practice in design. The motive to have a set of principle for a particular platform or domain is to maintain the consistency, intuitiveness, efficiency and learnability of the design.
A design principle lies between the principle in design and a specific way to implement it. It makes sure the end users basic needs are taken care of well irrespective of ethnicity, location, timeline and type.
For a designer, a design principle not only enhances the possibility of being creative and logical at the same time, as well as it increases the learning curve without being restricted in creativity.
A thorough research methodology, a deep sense of human cognition, possessing the basic common senses, repetitive and easiness of human behaviour and action are few of the factors which aided in creation of the principles.
The domain of healthcare has always demanded safety, sustainability and affordance. The niche areas of intricate human requirement for healthcare, the recognized genres of necessity in medicine, the all-time need to afford only the bests in terms of health and wellness, must have evoked a small thinking in all our mind…how can we design better for healthcare, how can we deliver only the best design to support life, how can we learn from each other and work together to heal the world?