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# Devise Consulting

Product Management & UX Design

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## Posts

- [Reflections on a Rock Health Summit](https://deviseconsulting.com/2019/11/20/reflections-on-rock-health-summit-2019/) - I’m still mentally dwelling on the vast scope of the underlying problems with our “healthcare” system in the United States. It’s actually a broken “sick care” system that devotes relatively little time to human-centered discourse. We have no unified or effective approach to delivering preventive care, and are neither addressing the scale of such needs nor are we typically tailoring approaches to each individual.
- [For Designers Interested in Medical Devices](https://deviseconsulting.com/2012/08/25/for-designers-interested-in-medical-devices/) - Lizz Bacon presented this talk to an audience of seasoned user experience designers in San Francisco, California for the Device Design Day conference. For designers interested in medical devices and healthcare, please read this guidance as encouragement and use it as a pathway to some of the most meaningful problems you'll ever solve. Healthcare and
- [Digital Health Portfolio](https://deviseconsulting.com/2020/09/11/digital-health-portfolio/) - Devise Consulting Principal Lizz Bacon has specialized for almost twenty years in UX and Product Management for the domains of digital health, healthcare and medical devices. Over the years, she's accumulated a massive wealth of experience, but hasn't ever publicly shared many examples on this front. Now, Devise is pleased to announce that she's published
- [Defining UX](https://deviseconsulting.com/2014/01/27/defining-ux/) - I propose a model that represents the fields of User Experience Design organized on a spectrum comprised of the soft skills we all possess: Understanding; Definition; Communication. We must excel in understanding people, technology, domains, problems; we must excel in providing definition to that understanding and advancing it towards a goal, in terms of defining models, approaches, scenarios, solutions, frameworks, systems; and we must excel in communicating this user-centered understanding and solution definition in all ways, including visually, verbally, and into development and launch which gets into product management territory.
- [Design Thinking for Product Management](https://deviseconsulting.com/2017/09/23/design-thinking-for-product-management/) - I brought in a design thinking-based approach, aka the “double diamond” model, to rationalize business strategies against user needs, allowing early market investigation and concept validation to lead into further design refinement and then development and delivery of quality solutions.“Design thinking” is generally sweeping the business world, as the powerfully iterative and effective methods of design are made sensible for leaders of product development.
- [Remote Collaboration Rules](https://deviseconsulting.com/2020/03/09/remote-collaboration-rules/) - Remote team collaboration has become a common feature of modern software design & development workplaces — especially now, post-pandemic — where "remote team" is defined as persons working together who are not physically co-located in a traditional, shared office space. Devise Consulting has worked very successfully with various forms of remote team configurations for well
- [Great Product Teams Practice Learn ➔ Make ➔ Test](https://deviseconsulting.com/2023/05/23/great-product-teams-practice-learn-make-test/) - Applying the “learn ➔ make ➔ test” process across every stage of product development can help product managers to lead teams effectively and create truly successful products. Product managers often carry the responsibility to define their product team’s activities across the entire development lifecycle. Efficiency is critical given the speed at which technology advances every
- [Death to Personas! Long Live Personas!](https://deviseconsulting.com/2008/06/06/death-to-personas-long-live-personas/) - This deck on Personas — a sometimes contentious design tool — is an oldie but a goodie. Enjoy! [slideshare id=686287&doc=death-to-personas-long-live-personas-slideshare-1224798397228293-9]
- [Scenarios for Design Workshop](https://deviseconsulting.com/2010/02/13/scenarios-for-design/) - Scenarios are the most essential and powerful tool for user experience design. Practitioners may call them use cases or storyboards, but the fact remains that we cannot design for interactive, complex products and services without using a scenario at some juncture. This powerful methodology is based on the goal-directed design process that originated at Cooper,
- [New Ideas on the Future of Healthcare](https://deviseconsulting.com/2012/05/25/new-ideas-on-the-future-of-healthcare/) - Lizz Bacon presented these slides at the WebVisions 2012 conference held in Portland, Oregon. It was a jumping-off point for a panel discussion with Peter Jones and Bill Hersh, as moderated by Nate DiNiro. [slideshare id=12976768&doc=newideasonfutureofhealthcareebacon2012-05-17final-120517193440-phpapp01]
- [Understanding Patient Engagement](https://deviseconsulting.com/2014/01/25/understanding-patient-engagement/) - Lizz Bacon presented this talk on “Understanding Patient Engagement” to the HIMSS Usability Task Force. So often, the production of health information technology can leave the human element and context of use behind. However, we can only generate progress towards the crucial goal of patient engagement for health if we focus on people. People are
- [Healthy Design for People](https://deviseconsulting.com/2019/11/04/healthy-design-for-people/) - Lizz Bacon and Lorraine Chapman presented this material to a standing-room-only crowd at Healthcare Refactored.
- [Design Sprints rule](https://deviseconsulting.com/2023/09/11/design-sprints-rule/) - One of our favorite tools for rapid innovation is also one of the most intense: the 5-day design sprint! The 5-day design sprint is a hands-on, hardcore attack at solving a thorny problem or pursuing a hot opportunity.* Get in touch if your team wants to try out this goodness with an experienced guide! Although
- [Redefining Research](https://deviseconsulting.com/2014/01/25/redefining-research/) - For Revelation Inc., Devise designed the 2.0 version of their PROJECT software, which manages online research studies. We scoped an engagement involving User Research, Product Conception and Detailed Design. We always seek an internal partner within our client's organization in order to help transfer useful knowledge around processes and techniques; in this engagement, we mentored
- [Vrooming about Design](https://deviseconsulting.com/2019/12/02/vrooming-about-design/) - https://youtu.be/DzyfswIJzNQ Have you ever gone on a motorcycle ride while being interviewed? The ever-innovative Matt Oliphant invited Lizz to speak on an episode of his show, We Can Do Better, and they ended up vrooming about town on their machines.
- [For The Betterment of All](https://deviseconsulting.com/2019/11/07/videos/) - The design of novel technologies needs to help improve the human condition. Lizz Bacon presented thoughts on this theme at the CHIFOO Speaker Series.
- [Humanize All the Things](https://deviseconsulting.com/2019/11/07/humanised-scenarios/) - Scenarios are a fundamental interaction design practice. From definition to delivery, this essential tool helps ensure that we design delightful — and successful — products and services for humans.
- [UX Strategy for Medical Systems](https://deviseconsulting.com/2008/12/12/interaction-design-for-medical-systems/) - Strategy could be defined as knowing how to approach problems. In the highly-critical domain of medical devices and digital health, the product development process itself is monitored and subject to review by regulatory bodies such as the FDA (United States) and IEC (Europe). Building UX design methods into your processes is an optimal way to
- [Results with UX Design](https://deviseconsulting.com/2014/01/25/ux-design/) - For Integrated Services Inc (ISI), Devise provided user research and UX design services. We first went into the field to spend time at quick-lube shops, studying their operations and daily activities in order to provide design concepts for a new web-based dashboard. We were able to articulate multiple directions based on an assessment of the
- [Client List](https://deviseconsulting.com/2018/11/14/who-we-are/) - Devise Consulting is proud to have worked with clients ranging in size from startups to the Fortune 1. Click through to see a partial client list...
- [Potential Project Plan](https://deviseconsulting.com/2017/12/07/services/) - We tailor every Devise Consulting project for the wants and needs of our clients. Click through for an example engagement...
- [Product Success for Fluke Networks](https://deviseconsulting.com/2019/11/11/product-success-for-fluke-networks/) - Fluke Networks came to Devise Consulting for UX research and design for their handheld cable analyzer system, now called Versiv. Fluke product leader Steve O'Hara says that Versiv's design is a "tremendous success;" it has revolutionized people's understanding of what kind of business value a cable analyzer could provide, and continues to drive market share and win industry awards.

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- [New Course](https://deviseconsulting.com/sos-course-1/) - Sustaining Our Souls at Work: Powerful Tools and Positive Heartsets for Working Well with Others In this new class, I'll be teaching ways to tackle the important business activities of introducing yourself to people and teams, understanding your purpose, establishing effective work processes, selling creative solutions, keeping people on target towards your desired goals —
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