This paper explores the utilization of
design skills and approaches by
non-designers within the context of rehabilitation in healthcare. The author
proposes that within us all is the set of skills, strategies and modes of thinking commonly
found in designers that, if recognised, understood and practiced, could
potentially be harnessed by nondesigners to assist them in everyday situations. Rather than this usurping the designers’
role, designers may have the potential
to help ‘unlock’ these capabilities in
others and help change the
patient-to-healthcare professional relationship. This idea is explored using a pilot study
involving spinal cord injuries patients
in rehabilitation.
Nordic Design Research Conference 2013
