Designing for the Experience of Pain
Elizabeth Lewis · InTech eBooks · 2012
Pain management within a palliative care context offers many opportunities for designers to innovatively push boundaries as they provide new perspectives on experiences. Additionally, the designer’s ability to remain grounded in the needs of the care environment is dependent on their ability to draw on the experiences of others. This paper discusses the importance of experience and the way it can be explored as a key problem-solving tool. Experiential research aims to guide the design process and subsequent solutions towards products and systems that are deeply rooted in the needs of pain sufferers.