A couple of weeks ago I was preparing my prototype for testing in a usability lab.

I was exploring designs for how we might improve how we display users’ prescription orders.

The existing design grouped orders by their status, from requested, to approved and finally, rejected.

This potentially creates a long list of orders, and means that rejected orders always appear at the bottom of the list.

So I wanted to see how else I could display prescription orders and improve the current design as much as I could before the usability lab.

I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to solve a big design problem in no time. Rather than taking smaller steps by testing the current design to:

• validate or invalidate my hypotheses
• find out what I needed to change

Don’t put pressure on yourself to quickly come up with a perfect solution. Because you’ll never know if you’re solving a problem until you put your design in front of users.

Copyright Samantha Saw | @samantharosesaw