We have been working closely with staff at Te Whatu Ora Waitematā on an Emergency Department Services video to communicate the patient journey within ED to patients and visitors. ED is a high-stress, fast-paced and complex environment. Ensuring that patients and visitors are well informed of the process and that the wait times they might be experiencing are based around decision making to treat those in more severe or critical conditions first. It is hoped that this video will support current existing initiatives in ED to alleviate some of the issues that impact staff working in ED environments.
We have an illustrator working on the key scenes, and much of the storyboard has been developed through a rigorous process with both staff and consumer representatives. We are now in the stage of putting the video together and are after a student who is skilled in video-editing and potentially some simple animations, who can work within the set style and help edit the video to completion. The ideal student should be good at collaborating and working to a deadline, and know (or be willing to learn how to use) After Effects and Premiere Pro.
The Museum of Meaningful Moments (MMM) is a community wellbeing project that invites people to respond to questions or prompts about their everyday experiences in times of change. The purpose of the Museum is to showcase and celebrate the moments we take for granted in daily life. We want to help show how we all see things in different ways. When viewed as a whole, the collection is a reminder that while our everyday experiences may be unique to us as individuals, our collective experience at any given moment is made up of many different points of view. In this way, the Museum of Meaningful Moments allows us to see what is unique, and what is shared, in our experience of times of change. Learn more about this project at www.museumofmeaningfulmoments.com or on social media @museofmeaning
We are planning to test a new interactive engagement and are looking for a digital design student with experience and confidence in 3D modelling that is open to learning how to model for 3D printing.
We have a talented group of Masters students who every year complete some stunning pieces of work and research. It is important that these projects are made visible and accessible to the public but also to particular audiences like clinicians and healthcare decision makers as well as future students looking to work in design for health. This is so we can influence and spark change for better experiences and design in our healthcare system and the wellbeing of our communities.
We are seeking a few students in either Animation, VFX and Game Design or Communication Design who are interested or skilled in video editing and animation to help us create the stories around these research projects. The ideal student should be good at storytelling in order to capture the story that best represents the research and the project, and know (or be willing to learn how to use) After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Medication information is often overwhelming and loaded with medical jargon. We had a student in 2020, explore a design for a more visual and patient friendly medication information leaflet – see that project here. In 2021, a group of three students developed this further, designing a template and beginning a more extensive revamped icon bank to represent various conditions, symptoms and side effects of common medications. We are seeking a few more design students who can pick up on the icon bank work and continue developing the full set, particularly taking onboard further feedback from consumers and integrating this into the design. Ideally the student(s) should be confident in illustration/icon design, and up for the challenge of illustrating complex medical conditions in ways that are visually understandable and accessible to those with low health literacy or for whom English is a second language. This project will be in collaboration with our external partner at the Institute for Innovation and Improvement (i3), Te Whatu Ora — Waitematā. Learn more about i3 at i3.waitematadhb.govt.nz
As a result of our research and teaching experience, Good Health Design has collaborated with colleagues on a wide range of useful, student oriented resources to help make design research and research methods and processes more accessible for students or new researchers. Getting these resources out to the right audience has been tricky, and we are looking to collaborate with a keen, enthusiastic student with an interest in advertising and marketing, and is interested in bringing a fresh perspective and take. What this looks like is up for negotiation with the right student based on skills and expertise, and we are open to various social media and other marketing tactics you can bring ideas for.
Our colleagues at North Shore Hospital/ARRD are seeking talented and motivated design students to help them on a renal nutrition information project. In 2022, an intern collaborated with Renal Dieticians to improve the design of some information leaflets for patients around the topic of phosphorus. Nutrition and kidney health is important for renal patients to understand why it is important to eat healthy and how they can do so in ways that meet their needs and dietary preferences. These information leaflets will help support patient in their consultations with Renal Dieticians about the simple and easy changes they can make, so making this information easy to read and accessible is extremely important for patients to adhere to the recommendations. The student(s) will have the opportunity to work on a high-impact project that aims to improve the lives of individuals with kidney disease through better access to information about nutrition.
The student(s) will be tasked firstly with testing the existing design (designed by the previous student) with different content. They will then have an opportunity to modify the design and add new template designs to better suit a wide range of information. This project is ideal for one or two design students who enjoy publication layout and are up for a challenge around how they can design a template/layout that can be used by a non-designer without compromising on the design! If you are interested in gaining hands-on experience on a meaningful project while making a difference in the lives of people with kidney disease, please apply as outlined above.
The Museum of Meaningful Moments (MMM) is a community wellbeing project that invites people to respond to questions or prompts about their everyday experiences in times of change. The purpose of the Museum is to showcase and celebrate the moments we take for granted in daily life. We want to help show how we all see things in different ways. When viewed as a whole, the collection is a reminder that while our everyday experiences may be unique to us as individuals, our collective experience at any given moment is made up of many different points of view. In this way, the Museum of Meaningful Moments allows us to see what is unique, and what is shared, in our experience of times of change. Learn more about this project at www.museumofmeaningfulmoments.com or on social media @museofmeaning
As part of our ongoing research using MMM, we are planning to take MMM to Zinefest this year and are looking to work with design students interested in illustration and would be keen to add to our zine collection started by our summer student. We are also seeking illustration support in creating the promotional assets for ZineFest (table signage, poster, etc).
