{"id":3564,"date":"2026-07-13T20:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:36:28","slug":"weeknote-7-design-truisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/weeknote-7-design-truisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote 7: design truisms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jenny Holtzer’s Truisms (1978-87)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was in the first day of a two day away day at work and I was thinking of Jenny Holtzer’s truisms<\/a>. They feel true (even if they might not be), which is what’s so cool about them. I think it’s the same for some myths about the NHS and what it is and isn’t good at. It’s sometimes in the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n

So I thought I’d imagine what Digital Screening truisms might be (inspired by the 2018 NHS Design Principles<\/a> of course):<\/p>\n

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  1. Decide what differentiates staff facing interfaces from participant* facing ones and what should feel the same.<\/li>\n
  2. Decide how you will measure your impact from the beginning.<\/li>\n
  3. Design for as many people as you can, then have a plan for those you can\u2019t reach just yet.<\/li>\n
  4. Consider that clinical safety might trump ease of use.<\/li>\n
  5. Remove as much complexity as you can, given the circumstances. Then make it easy for others to pick up where you left off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m in my 11th week so this might age like milk, but hey, it’s just a weeknote after all.<\/p>\n

    * Participants is what we call members of the public who need to be screened. We don’t know if they’re ill, so they’re neither patients nor service users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I was in the first day of a two day away day at work and I was thinking of Jenny Holtzer’s truisms. They feel true (even if they might not be), which is what’s so cool about them. I think it’s the same for some myths about the NHS and what it is and isn’t… Continue reading Weeknote 7: design truisms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeknotes","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Vu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}