Abstract
Designing for healthcare is uniquely challenging when designers have limited access to data and clinicians have little time to engage in the design process. In this work, we reflect on our experiences as design researchers working in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) to offer practical tactics for overcoming these constraints. We present a case study demonstrating a rapid, iterative approach that leverages open‐source proxy data and remote micro‐workshops with clinicians. This method allows us to derive meaningful in‐ sights without requiring extensive healthcare datasets or prolonged clinician engagement. From our pro‐ cess, we extract key lessons to guide designers seeking to engage with the clinical domain despite the com‐ mon constraints it presents. By shifting the conversation from domain constraints to design capabilities, this paper contributes a practical approach for designers engaging with the clinical field and a call to ex‐ plore alternative ways of working in healthcare settings.
Keywords
Healthcaredesign; Designtactics; Opensourceproxydata; Micro‐workshops; Remotepatient monitoring
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.881
Citation
Calota, M.S.,and Huang, J.(2025) No Data, No Time: Designing for Healthcare Using Proxy Datasets and Micro‐workshops with Clinicians, in Chang, C.-Y., Chen, C.-H., & Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.881
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Conference Track
Track 9 - Healthcare Design
No Data, No Time: Designing for Healthcare Using Proxy Datasets and Micro‐workshops with Clinicians
Designing for healthcare is uniquely challenging when designers have limited access to data and clinicians have little time to engage in the design process. In this work, we reflect on our experiences as design researchers working in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) to offer practical tactics for overcoming these constraints. We present a case study demonstrating a rapid, iterative approach that leverages open‐source proxy data and remote micro‐workshops with clinicians. This method allows us to derive meaningful in‐ sights without requiring extensive healthcare datasets or prolonged clinician engagement. From our pro‐ cess, we extract key lessons to guide designers seeking to engage with the clinical domain despite the com‐ mon constraints it presents. By shifting the conversation from domain constraints to design capabilities, this paper contributes a practical approach for designers engaging with the clinical field and a call to ex‐ plore alternative ways of working in healthcare settings.