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Can a Healthcare UX Designer Work Outside Healthcare?
A friend of mine, Greg Schwartz, a product designer based in Johannesburg, South Africa recently asked me if my skills in UX design can be used outside of healthcare? In short, the answer is yes; my skills in Healthcare UX are transferable to UX projects in any industry.
The answer in short is yes; Healthcare UX designers can work outside healthcare.
This is a really good question as it is one I pondered early on in my career. I started out as a UX designer from September 2014. I didn’t know I was doing UX design for the first six months but it all was pretty much textbook UX; gathering requirements through a variety of means, conducting user research and data analytics, etc. Then I put what I learned through a design process before delivering a digital solution for people to use.
“UX design is really just design and the main purpose of design is to solve problems.”
I have further developed my career over the past 5 years, earned a Masters in Human Computer Interaction with Ergonomics and spoken to 1,000s of people internationally at conferences and events. I can confidently say I now have a deep understanding of what UX actually is. UX design is really just design and…
