User-Centered Prototyping in Adult Critical Care: A Scoping Review Protocol

Description

User Centered Design (UCD) applies an iterative design process in which the designer develops high-quality and usable products by understanding user's needs. In healthcare, UCD has been used to prioritize patients' and healthcare professionals' needs and experiences and help design interventions that are easy to understand and use. 

Within the design phases of UCD, prototypes are widely recognized as a core means of exploring and testing design products. Efficient prototyping methods are needed especially in adult critical care when UCD is applied in a fast-paced and challenging environment where clinicians face significant time pressure. However, Prior systematic and narrative reviews focused primarily on summarizing the most common methods used across UCD phases without looking into the methods used in the prototyping process or the focus of prototypes. Besides, prior reviews did not consider the characteristics of healthcare settings or how the setting would affect the methods used in prototyping. Therefore, there is a need to conduct a scoping review to explore how researchers design prototypes based on user needs.