Designing visual hierarchies for the communication of health data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Visual hierarchy underlies all visual design decisions related to information presentation. This manuscript describes the experience of a multidisciplinary health data visualization and software design team in using visual hierarchy to redesign a hereditary colorectal cancer lab report.

Materials and methods

A series of interviews with representative users were conducted to identify target user groups and determine information hierarchy for each user type. Visual elements (eg, size, color, contrast, etc.) were then assigned to mirror the information hierarchy and workflow for each user type.

Results

User research identified 2 distinct user groups as consumers of the redesigned lab report. An interactive design employing a 2-level page hierarchy was develope

SUBMITTER: Saw JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11491599 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature