User experience principles

In this segment, our focus is on improving the user experience of your applications. A positive user experience is crucial because it directly influences user satisfaction, engagement, and the overall success of your applications, creating lasting connections between your audience and your technology. We provide some tools and design theory that we hope you keep in mind when designing and developing DHIS2 applications.

Donald Norman is an acknowledged researcher in the realm of design and is often referred to as the godfather of UX. His best-selling book "The Design of Everyday Things" describe 6 general principles that should be applicable to any product to improve its user friendliness: visibility, feedback, affordance, mapping, constraints, and consistency.

DHIS2 UI is an open source design system for building DHIS2 apps. The system is based on a foundation of principles, patterns, and guidelines for designing user-friendly apps. A reusable component library provides the building blocks to develop DHIS2 apps with consistent user experience. Installation instructions and other tutorials can be found here.

We will be using examples from this library to explain and visualize the different UX principles.