I worked with the team at Nexer Digital and Dr Julian Treadwell, an NIHR doctoral research fellow at Oxford University, to develop a clinical information application called GP Evidence.
The app aims to help GPs make informed, evidence-based decisions. This is especially important when they are prescribing for patients with complex long-term conditions that need diverse treatments.
Dr Treadwell had built a rough prototype himself, and he wanted to develop it into a working platform over the course of his research. This is where we came in.
Dr Treadwell's outline
I used his early design concepts, along with insights from his interviews, to design and build a clickable prototype.
Prototype connections
I led a co-design workshop for Dr Treadwell and several GPs. This provided a collaborative environment to explore the prototype so we could expose flaws and build on strong points. I used feedback and ideas from participants to change the prototype on the fly during the workshop.
First version of landing page
Second version of landing page
After the workshop, we discussed with Dr Treadwell some possible platforms for hosting the app. We decided that WordPress offered the best balance between functional capabilities and ease of use. We also discussed the feasibility of implementing the various workshop-generated ideas in WordPress. We built several of the capabilities using WordPress plug-ins, to allow Dr Treadwell to add his content easily into a functionally rich website.
We built a working framework for the app in WordPress. This enabled Dr Treadwell to migrate this to his own hosting platform and to add content as it became ready.
Final version of treatment screen with Cates chart
[Ben was] fantastic: wise and flexible guidance, expertise and dazzling technical skills. I think we have come up with something special. It was fascinating to see how apparently small incremental changes and suggestions made a huge impact, plus a couple of totally unexpected brilliant things came up (the greyed out Cates plots to gently force risk input — genius!) Amazing seeing co-design in action.
