Reference library

The library

Reference resources you come back to while designing: standards, design systems, tools and more. Every entry links to its original and shows a licence check. Nothing here is rehosted. It is a reference set, not a news feed.

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Research 8

Studies and evidence to ground a design decision.

Research Free to share A Remote Patient-Monitoring System for Intensive Care Medicine: Human-Centered Design and Usability Evaluation pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov A JMIR Human Factors study that designs a clinician-facing monitoring dashboard with users and measures usability before and after. A worked example of how a mixed-methods design process is reported. CC BY 4.0. Process & Research Checked Oct 2026 Research Licence not confirmed A Systematic Review of Patient-Facing Visualizations of Personal Health Data pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov A systematic review of studies on charts and other visuals that show patients their own health data, and what they found about understanding and use. A starting point for choices in a patient trend chart. Free to read on PMC, but no open licence is stated. Data Visualisation & Health Metrics Checked Oct 2026 Research Free to share Beyond Adoption: a framework for evaluating nonadoption, abandonment and scale-up of health and care technologies (NASSS) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov An open access JMIR paper (Greenhalgh and colleagues, 2017) that sets out seven domains, from the condition to the wider context, that decide whether a health technology is taken up or dropped. Gives a designer a checklist of questions beyond usability. CC BY 4.0. Process & Research Checked Oct 2026 Research Free to share Consumers' Needs for Laboratory Results Portals: Questionnaire Study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov A JMIR Human Factors questionnaire study of what people want from a laboratory results portal, such as how results are grouped, flagged and explained. Useful evidence for designing a list of many results rather than a single value. CC BY 4.0. Clinical vs Patient Interfaces Checked Oct 2026 Research Free to share Enhancing Patient Understanding of Laboratory Test Results (systematic review) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov An open access systematic review of ways to help patients understand lab results, including how a value is placed against a reference range and explained in plain words. Evidence behind the choices in a result screen. CC BY 4.0. Data Visualisation & Health Metrics Checked Oct 2026 Research Licence not confirmed JMIR Human Factors humanfactors.jmir.org An open access journal on how human behaviour and design shape the usability, safety and effectiveness of health technologies. A source of published usability studies of health apps and clinical tools. Check each article's own licence line before reusing anything. Evidence Checked Oct 2026 Research Licence not confirmed Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) jmir.org A peer-reviewed open access journal on digital medicine, telehealth and health technology. A broad starting point for evidence on digital health before narrowing to a specialist journal. Check each article's own licence line before reusing anything. Evidence Checked Oct 2026 Research Licence not confirmed Patient experience measurement: a 2026 review PubMed Open-access review. Section 4 on longitudinal measures is the useful part for product teams. Evidence Checked Oct 2026