The Scandinavian insurance company commissioned Kanon Foundry to design Hedvig Letters, a bespoke typeface that reflects Hedvig’s brand philosophy; appreciate the mishaps and imperfections of life.

A New Typeface for Hedvig that Celebrates Imperfections - World Brand Design Society

https://www.alloy.health/changelog/december-7-2023

Software for Taking Care of People | Alloy Health

Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval

Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger | Figma Blog

Building In Public is a raw, in-depth look at current work on healthcareOS. In this week's episode of building in public, I'm showing you how I'm using UX to help doctor's find anything they need.  Stanford Study: https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/ehr/documents/EHR-Poll-Presentation.pdf  About Alloy https://www.alloy.health  Prototype https://demo.alloy.health  Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/3ltauIc Learn more about my startup, Alloy: https://bit.ly/3Pt9Ok0  About Robert I make videos about my work as a product designer and aspiring entrepreneur. Follow along with my journey to revolutionize healthcare.  #startup #building #design #designsystem  #healthcare #healthtech

How UX can help doctors find anything in their EHR

Building In Public is a raw, in-depth look at current work on healthcareOS. This month, I'm giving you a deep dive into a new "feature" the module library, how modules are designed, some explorations in data visualization, and a possible direction for UX differentiation.  About Alloy https://www.alloy.health  Prototype https://demo.alloy.health  Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/3ltauIc Learn more about my startup, Alloy: https://bit.ly/3Pt9Ok0  About Robert I make videos about my work as a product designer and aspiring entrepreneur. Follow along with my journey to revolutionize healthcare.  #startup #building #code #design #designsystem #vue3 #nuxt3 #healthcare #healthtech

Modules, Designing Data, and Chronic Care / Building In Public Ep 2

Building In Public is a raw, in-depth look at current work on healthcareOS. In this week's episode of building in public, I'm giving you a deep dive into the design of the Condition Summary module in healthcareOS.  About Alloy https://www.alloy.health  Prototype https://demo.alloy.health  Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/3ltauIc Learn more about my startup, Alloy: https://bit.ly/3Pt9Ok0  About Robert I make videos about my work as a product designer and aspiring entrepreneur. Follow along with my journey to revolutionize healthcare.  #startup #building #code #design #designsystem #vue3 #nuxt3 #healthcare #healthtech

The most important healthcareOS module – the condition summary // Building in Public Ep 3

This week, I'm trying something a bit new. Building In Public is a raw, in-depth look at current work on healthcareOS. This month, I'm giving you a deep dive...

Building in Public / Episode 1 / Design Systems, Vue Prototype, and Product Strategies

Thank you all for following along on my design and creative journey this year. I'm celebrating the end of the year with a fresh logo and renewed energy to cr...

The year I rediscovered my creative joy

Daring Fireball's John Gruber discusses "The Auteur Theory of Design" at Macworld Expo - www.macworldexpo.com

John Gruber - Auteur Theory of Design - Macworld Pulse

Effortlessly keep track of your recent interactions within healthcareOS. Whether it's patients, modules, pages, or appointments, you can quickly locate and access what you've recently viewed, eliminating the need to dig through your history.

Updates and Improvements to healhtcareOS | November 4, 2023  | Alloy Health

https://www.alloy.health/changelog/november-4-2023

SMART goals sound great for small objectives, but they don’t work for more ambitious dreams. Let's talk about a better alternative to SMART goals.

SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead

The era of first movers in the EHR space has established itself in our healthcare system leaving tens of thousands of clinicians burned out, frustrated, and defeated. Epic, Cerner, and Athena, have emerged as major market players in the US and international EHR market. Epic alone is worth nearly $4B (though that does seem low for perhaps the most dominant player).  These companies and their products benefited immensely from being in the right place at the right time. Yet, nearly universally, clinicians complain about these products (to varying degrees). Jokes, complaints, and gripes abound about the poor UX of these incumbents. Yet I don't believe these assessments are fair. Primarily because the companies don't need to worry about UX.

Design will define the next era of EHRs | Blog | Alloy Health

https://www.alloy.health/blog/design-will-define-next-era-ehrs

Mentally a bit tired today. Told the team that I’m gonna be heads down and just need a low pressure day to get a few things done without any meetings or deadlines. Nothing but support. It’s great to have a supportive team.

The courage to start. 
The discipline to focus.
The confidence to figure it out. 
The patience to know progress is not always visible. 
The persistence to keep going, even on the bad days.

Lil' bits of progress are still progress

https://www.alloy.health/changelog/december-7-2023

More tinkering – please forgive the out-of-sync tab bar state 😅

I've been writing a somewhat lengthy post about the impact that design can have in healthcare for the past few weeks. I'm in the phase where I just want to publish it but need to finesse it a bit more. Is anyone interested in doing a bit of proofreading? Happy to reciprocate!

Got a 14" MBP from work last week (my last one was super old) and I didn't think I'd mesh very well with the 14" but I actually kinda like it better than my personal M1 Max 16". I guess it could be new computer obsession but this is surprising.

Soft launched a new site for my passion project the other day. I think I've managed to get most of the bugs worked out: https://www.alloy.health/

Wonder what kind of regulatory issues they ran into.

How do yall document high fidelity designs and flows? It’s my weakest area and looking for any guidance help or inspiration

I think my favorite thing about Posts is that I don't feel some kind of incessant, pressing need to check it every 20-30 minutes like I used to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.

One of my New Year's "resolutions" is to make more friends, particularly in the design space. So Posts peeps, anyone up for a coffee over Google Meet. I'm thinking a bit of get to know ya, how can I help, share your passions/hobbies, etc

I think one of the biggest UX mistakes current EHRs have made is the copying of the paper chart "tab" affordance. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant amount of "click stress" from physicians comes from this one design pattern.

Experimenting with a new-ish style for pills

Every year I carve the same jack o lantern. It never ceases to make me laugh

We had 8 trick-or-treaters before the rain put a dampen on everything. Now someone's gotta eat all this candy.

Newest YouTube video took me 8 tries to record. First two were content and flow issues and then 5 technical glitches. Finally got it on the last try. At least it’s done now.

I received some encouraging feedback after making the first one of these videos. So here's number 2! https://youtu.be/S1y9gzUYhik

The most common mistake I see designers make is they always make it an ux-vs-product/eng game. That causes friction and tension in the team. Instead, make it a ux+product+eng-vs-problem and there will be a lot less stress and more fun.

I had a breakthrough when I realised I shouldn't look to minimise the risk of failing, I should try to minimise the cost of failing.

Now I lean heavily on the fact that everything fails, usually several times, on the way to a success.

Really enjoyed making this video. Lots of small details and decisions in such a complex and important problem. https://youtu.be/KYg5MhQ4gBM

Made a new video —
https://youtu.be/nmzyCFRXnBY

I managed to get my year in review video out with just a few hours to spare.  https://youtu.be/55LKb5oHorc

Stumbled on this video this afternoon and man, what a gem. Should be required viewing for every designer.

I got a bit too excited about Figma's custom cursors this morning

Decided to start a changelog for my passion project. Overkill? Perhaps. But it's fun to keep track of the progress. https://www.alloy.health/changelog/november-4-2023

Making pizza from scratch tonight. My dough babies.

Loving where this is going but the app bar is still a bit weird to me.

what are people up to besides annual updates to your portfolios? 😊

Tough day. What's your fave way to process or disconnect from work stress that bleeds over into life outside of work?

Happy New Years, Posts peeps! Not really a fan of resolutions but it's hard not to think about goals for this year. Thinking I may establish a few PACT goals for myself. 

https://nesslabs.com/smart-goals-pact

Googles: "How to be assertive as a designer"

Sometimes my job feels like I'm trying to figure out what's in someone else's head and design it. I don't want it to be that way but feel powerless to go against that momentum.

New blog post up —  https://www.alloy.health/blog/design-will-define-next-era-ehrs

We're cooking up the #1 user requested Figma Desktop App feature!

Can you guess what it is?

Every now and then my brain likes to remind me of all the dumb things I've said in interviews in the past. And I'd just like to say it's extremely rude to do that to me.