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In this podcast Emily Kagan Trenchard, Associate Vice President of Digital & Innovation Strategy at Northwell Health, discusses enhancing the digital patient experience, how they are tackling issues of interoperability with legacy technology, and why the term  “healthcare consumerism” concerns her.

How Northwell Health is Reimagining Healthcare Part 1: The Digital Patient Experience

In Part 1 of our conversation with our healthcare partner, Emily Kagan Trenchard, Associate Vice President of Digital & Innovation Strategy at Northwell Health, we discussed how Northwell Health is working to improve the digital patient experience and navigating the sea of options they have to choose from.

Here in Part 2, Emily gives us deep insight into the thinking and work that went into Northwell Health’s new Amazon Alexa Skill, how they developed it, and how it fits into their digital experience platform.

How Northwell Health’s is Reimagining Healthcare Part 2: The Northwell Health Amazon Alexa Skill

When John Cartier, Phase2 Project Manager and Frank Febbraro, CTO spoke at our annual all-hands conference this year, we provided some strategies to get past the blank page, engage your creative capabilities, and get past the obvious to true innovation. A few of those strategies that we explain in the podcast include:

Understanding why your brain is lazy and how to make it work for you

Brainstorming techniques that span your personal and professional life

Learning the power of navigating fluidly between convergent and divergent thinking

Building your company culture to support innovative thinking

Your Next Big Idea Is Just 1000 Bad Ones Away

Whether you’re a UI Designer, a Developer or simply someone that has an appreciation for quality digital experiences, this podcast should be valuable to you!  At Phase2, we pride ourselves not only  in WHAT we produce but also HOW we produce it. Simply being masters of a craft is not enough. We want to be curious along the way and continually ask WHY and HOW we work together and communicate more efficiently, ultimately facilitating continual professional development. Listen in and hear from our host and UI Designer, Melinda Lease, as she interviews our leader of Visual and UI Design, Joey Groh, and one of our Senior Front-End Developers, Jeff Wax, speak about their experience with layout and grids and our own custom grid system. Be sure to tune into our other episodes of this mini-series as well!

UI Design Podcast: Episode 4 - Layout Grids and Our Grid System

Whether you’re a UI Designer, a Developer or simply someone that has an appreciation for quality digital experiences, this podcast should be valuable to you!  At Phase2, we pride ourselves not only  in WHAT we produce but also HOW we produce it. Simply being masters of a craft is not enough. We want to be curious along the way and continually ask WHY and HOW we work together and communicate more efficiently, ultimately facilitating continual professional development. Listen in and hear from our host and UI Designer, Melinda Lease, as she interviews our Accessibility Lead, Catharine McNally, about her experience with accessibility and conducting accessibility audits, focusing on design-focused areas like color contrast and text size.  Be sure to tune into our other episodes of this mini-series as well!

UI Design Podcast: Episode 3 - Accessibility in Design

Whether you’re a UI Designer, a Developer or simply someone that has an appreciation for quality digital experiences, this podcast should be valuable to you!  At Phase2, we pride ourselves not only  in WHAT we produce but also HOW we produce it. Simply being masters of a craft is not enough. We want to be curious along the way and continually ask WHY and HOW we work together and communicate more efficiently, ultimately facilitating continual professional development. Listen in and hear from our host and UI Designer, Melinda Lease, as she interviews one of our Product Managers, Janine Pracht and two of our Developers, Peter Schuelke and Joanna Anderson on their experience with Design QA (Quality Assurance). Be sure to tune into our other episodes of this mini-series as well!

UI Design Podcast: Episode 2 - Design QA (Quality Assurance)

Whether you’re a UI Designer, a Developer or simply someone that has an appreciation for quality digital experiences, this podcast should be valuable to you! At Phase2, we pride ourselves not only in WHAT we produce but also HOW we produce it. Simply being masters of a craft is not enough. We want to be curious along the way and continually ask WHY and HOW we work together and communicate more efficiently, ultimately facilitating continual professional development. Listen in and hear from our host and UI Designer, Melinda Lease, as she interviews one of our UX Designers, Nadia Saleh and one of our UX Strategists, Rachel Broardt as they discuss their experience in UX and the relationship between UI and UX. Be sure to tune into our other episodes of this mini-series as well!

UI Design Podcast: Episode 1 - The relationship between UI & UX Design

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