Abstract
In this article we reflect on our experience as a multidisciplinary project team with backgrounds in communication design, clinical pharmacy, and software systems development. Teams such as ours face challenges when implementing different methodological processes and can struggle with communication when vocabularies may be understood in vastly different ways. We reflect on our experience, for better and for worse, within the context of an ongoing and active project, and aim to contribute to recent dialogues around participatory and human-centred design for improved healthcare outcomes. For us, this is an active, critical case study, and we speak more about our experience of multidisciplinary team-building than the outcomes of the project itself – they are still in progress. We hope this dialogue will prove useful to inform future multidisciplinary collaborations.
Keywords
Co-design; human-centred design; adverse drug reactions; heuristics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.539
Citation
Thornton, C., Thiessen, M., Lim, R., Stanek, J.,and Kalisch, L.(2023) Can’t spell ‘medicine’ without ‘me’: Finding the spirit of co-design in multidisciplinary collaboration, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.539
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Can’t spell ‘medicine’ without ‘me’: Finding the spirit of co-design in multidisciplinary collaboration
In this article we reflect on our experience as a multidisciplinary project team with backgrounds in communication design, clinical pharmacy, and software systems development. Teams such as ours face challenges when implementing different methodological processes and can struggle with communication when vocabularies may be understood in vastly different ways. We reflect on our experience, for better and for worse, within the context of an ongoing and active project, and aim to contribute to recent dialogues around participatory and human-centred design for improved healthcare outcomes. For us, this is an active, critical case study, and we speak more about our experience of multidisciplinary team-building than the outcomes of the project itself – they are still in progress. We hope this dialogue will prove useful to inform future multidisciplinary collaborations.