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From Medicine to Clinical UX
How I became a Clinical User Experience Specialist
Hi there, I’m Gyles, Clinical UX Specialist and a medical doctor. A combination of professions that is exceptionally rare unfortunately. I only know of a handful of medical doctors who work as UX designers in the world, and a handful more who come from any other clinical background. I’m on a mission to change that through my clinical UX course.
But in this article, I share the first couple of years of my time in the wonderful world of UX, and how I landed in it.
Since 2014, I have worked with startups to large corporations. Companies include the European Patent Office, DigitalHealth.London who support technology innovation and adoption in the NHS, and Life Healthcare which is one of the largest healthcare providers in South Africa. I’m an international speaker on the topic of healthcare UX and host the UX Healthcare conference across Europe.
But how does a doctor go from a career in medicine to a niche career in UX?
It was a Monday morning in February 2015. I was ready and eager to learn how to use Axure RP 7, a powerful prototyping tool at the time. I was being taught by Dr Ritch Macefield, a UX Expert for over two decades, IT professional for three decades and CEO of Ax-Stream. He told the class of eight…
