Leveraging human-centered design to implement modern psychological science: Return on an early investment.

ABSTRACT: Although classic models of implementation emphasized the importance of innovation characteristics in their adoption and sustained use, contemporary implementation research and practice have deprioritized these variables. Human-centered design (HCD) is an approach that grounds product development in information collected about the people and settings that will ultimately use those products. HCD has strong roots in psychological theory, but its application is typically limited to the development of digital technologies. HCD is rarely applied to the design of psychosocial innovations-including both service-recipient-facing interventions and implementation strategies-within the applied psychological disciplines. The current article reviews the psychological origins of HCD and details pathways

SUBMITTER: Lyon AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7709137 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature