So many overlapping systems

Aim

  • Over the years and decades, various products are created to solve various workflow problems in healthcare, they end up looking and behaving inconsistently as a system.

  • A design system that offers comprehensive assets and guidelines can unify the scattered experience.

  • The “products to SaaS” journey requires a modern design system to be completed.

Key decisions:

  • Time boxing the creation of baseline UI elements

  • First drafts of design patterns

Inventory of entities

  • The first challenge is to identify how the systems overlap. Do they have object model/database entities that overlap? if yes how do they overlap?

  • The backend architecture for such a complex entity blend is to have common entities picked up in such a way that they serve every product line (systems coming together)

  • The common entities show common properties in the main layout but the system specific properties in a section of the frontend which is fed by the separate systems’ backend. This way even if the systems arent fully merged in the backend, the end users get a combied picture presented to them so they can make configurations all in 1 place.

My Role

  • Inventory investigation

  • baseline guiding principles

  • Implementation and adoption strategy

  • Governance and stakeholder management for adoption accross various product lines and the solutions strategy

Impact

  • Adoption done by 3 products already in the first quarter

  • Reduced duplication and exceptionally reduced time for design to development

  • Bases for SaaS Solution strategy

  • System level understanding

    How do the systems go from global to local configuration, giving the users for large scale systems a better control over the system behaviour

  • Merging common entities

    An example of a common entity Device, which is being merged by combining the various properties brought in by different systems.

  • Microfrontend structure

    An example for defining messages(alerts/events such that it goes from generic properies to deeper ones.

Front end solution

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