Generic Design for Diverse Environments with Joe Cooper
Quality Bits
10/31/23
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DHIS2 is an open-source health system used in many countries. It's known for it's generic architecture and high customisability. How do you have a generic design for diverse environments and build a product that helps save lives?
This episode's guest Joe Cooper is a designer working there for more than 7 years. We discuss the challenges of designing what actually matters, user satisfaction and user involvement, and humbling moments of realizing that our assumptions are wrong. As Joe notes in the episode: "I'm proud of not letting a design ego override important decisions. Sometimes that results in screenshots that are not as good for the portfolio. <..> The users don't need things that look better in my portfolio."
Find Joe on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-cooper-28667340/
- Website: https://joe-cooper.com/
Mentions and resources:
- DHIS2: https://dhis2.org/about/
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In the light of Movember (a movement that aims to raise awareness about men's health, including mental health and suicide prevention) and international men's day (did you know about that?), this is a special, vulnerable, and essential episode about men's mental health.
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Find Shey on:
Mentions and resources:
- Movember: https://movember.com
- Organizations to check out:
- St. Neots Man Cave: https://stneotsmancave.org.uk
- UK Men's Sheds: https://menssheds.org.uk
- Boys Get Sad Too: https://boysgetsadtoo.com/
- Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk
- Walk & Talk 4 Men: https://walkandtalk4men.com
- Andy's Man Club: https://andysmanclub.co.uk
- For men to talk: https://formentotalk.co.uk
- Deft university study: https://aclanthology.org/W15-2607.pdf
- Sophie Küster's talk "You don't talk about that at work!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxIuyb7jknc
- Book recommendations 📚:
- "It's Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies): Inspirational people open up about their mental healthIt's Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies): Inspirational people open up about their mental health" curated by Scarlett Curtis (Lina mentions it as "it's ok not to be ok", but she meant this one :))
- "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma" by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- ""No Offence, But...": How to have difficult conversations for meaningful change" by Gina Martin
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