Website Design

Question: Explain the design for the website for the healthcare center and the reason for choosing the website. Answer: Introduction: In this article, the design for the website for the healthcare center is described. A website for the health-care center Cerner is developed in this paper. The design of the website will be discussed here. The roles of this website are explained in this paper which is important for enhancing the users experiences (Polaine et al., 2013). The principles and the importance of this design are also explained in details. This is the website for Cerner healthcare center that is established in Australia. This website provides the interface to the users. Design Structure: This website is designed by using the six phases of the design. Phases Description Information Gathering This is the first phase to design a website. This website s designed for the healthcare center. All the requirements of the clients for a medical website are gathered then this website is designed. Planning On the basis of gathered information, it is planed how to create the healthcare website. This website is created in such a way that it fulfills all the requirements of the users. Design: The design of this website is carried for providing the best user interface and fulfills the users requirements to purchase the medical devices. Development: In this phase, the code of this website is developed by the developers. The website is developed for providing the access to the facilities of the healthcare center. Testing: The code is tested in this phase that it is fulfilling the users requirements or not. A complete design is tested in this phase in terms of software by using the acceptance and accessibility testing. Maintenance: In this phase of development, the backup for the maintenance is developed. The website needs to be updated at the certain interval of time. Maintenance is required to review the code of the website. Reason for choosing this website: The website is the good source of the user interface. This website provides the user online access that the customers can access the information about the hospital and the patients can consult with the doctor online. It also helpful for the users as the users can make an online order for a medical device. Anyone can order and can shop online easily for the medical devices. This website is committed to provide a secure hosting to the users. The authenticate user can check its patient record in the hospital (Stallard, 2016). The appointment can be fixed easily for the treatment using this website, which is very time saving. There is no need to go to a hospital, a patient can consult online with the doctors and payments also can be made online. This is the best user interface providing platform. This website provides the right navigation to the customers so that the customers can easily access the service provided by this healthcare center, Cerner. Enhance the user experience and fulfill the requirements: The website can be loaded quickly can the mobiles as well as the computer systems also. This website does not show the poor accessibility and can be accessed easily by the users. This website is also mobile-friendly. This website provides the navigation of the Cerner only; this website does not show any extra irrelevant links (Norman, 2013). This website is created according to the requirements of the customers. After surveying the review of the customers, this website is designed. Real life images are shown on with the website that enhances the user's experience. This fulfills the users requirements as the customers can easily place an order for any medical devices and the customers can consult with the doctors easily. An early delivery action will take by the management of the hospitals. This website is providing the best user interface and enhances the users experiences (Mejia et al., 2016). Factors affecting the website: Some factors are affecting the website are given below: The main factor is the delay in the delivery of the medical equipments. The customers get on-time delivery of the medical devices or not, it is the most affecting factor that affects the accessibility of the website. The customers are not aware of the placing the order sometimes. If the customer does not know how to place an order or how to access the website then that customers can access the website that affects the usage of the service. Online payment is also a factor that is affecting the website. Some customers are not aware of how to make the online payment. Irrelevant information also affects the website but this website is designed with the relevant information (Huang Benyoucef, 2013). The customers are accessing the website and then the customers do not able to find the relevant product then it affects the accessibility. If the price of the medical devices is more than the other site's prices then the customer will not prefer to use this website. These are the factors that affect this website. Reason for affecting the website: The customers use the internet for the different use. If the customer purchases a product then the customer compare the prices of the product on the other website. The more prices of the products affect the website. The alternatives available at the internet affect the website a lot. If, there is a poor response to the hospital management to the query of the patients then it will affect the usage of the website also (Dillman et al., 2014). Similar interfaces: The website is the first and the best interface between the user and the seller. A website should design in a way that anyone who is the authenticated user can access the website easily. A good design is the best way to communicate with the users (Cebi, 2013). The Cassette E-Commerce, Amazon and Netmeds.com are the similar sites that gave the idea to design a website for the medical or healthcare center. Cassette E-Commerce and Amazon are the websites of online shopping website that gives me the idea to design the website for purchasing the medical devices online. NEtmeds.com is the medical website that gives the idea of the medical science. These are the successful website of the business that is running from last long years. Importance of principle of design: The importance of the principles of website design is very necessary. The principles of website designing are the purpose of design, communication provided by the website and the images used in the website should relevant. The purpose of designing the website should be clear, if the purpose is not clear then a good website cannot be created so it is important to clear the purpose. The images used in the website creation should be clear and relevant so that the customer can access the right information without any complexity (Karjalainen, 2015). The communication should be fast .every customer wants quick access of the website. Therefore, it is important that there should be a fast communication. The principles of designing a website are important. Reason behind this design: This website is designed for the various reasons, as it is helpful to save the time of the patients. It also helps to increase the number of the appointments, which also affects the total turnover of the healthcare center. It reduces the running cost of the hospital, as it is the online service website, so number of the customers can handle at a time. There is no need to maintain the much hardware setup. It also reduces the cost of the running and the operations. It is also helpful to improve the patient care. 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