Navigation

The navigation construct considers the interactive, delivered, and instructional elements of digital health to guide users to different areas of content within digital health.

What does design consideration mean?

Notably, there was an overlap between design considerations and influencing factors. The former focuses on concluding possible design suggestions, recommendations, and implications proposed by the reviewed articles. The latter involves mapping the impacts of interaction design on digital PEx in different contexts; therefore, they refer to different themes and references.

Forms of Delivery

CONSIDERATIONS

  1. Readily accessible and downloadable; 

  2. Improve DHI delivery (e.g., change from a website to a mobile phone application);

  3. Ability to print and email the information.

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User flows

CONSIDERATIONS

  1. Minimum input (e.g., voice commands);

  2. Efficient access to information;

  3. Clarify what to do next;

  4. Provide search bar and menu bar;

  5. Tools and aids to help understand health information and complete health tasks.

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Instruction and tutorials

CONSIDERATIONS

  1. Guide users to a greater extent if the design is not self-explanatory;

  2. Provide more concrete, explicit and context-sensitive instructions (e.g., a virtual guided tour, extra internal links);

  3. Adopt features from common (i.e., familiarized) user interfaces (e.g., the iPhone-interface);

  4. Provide appropriate education and training on DH use.