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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A team redesigning cancer care invites patients to share detailed stories about their diagnosis, treatment, and daily life. What is the purpose of using stories in this context?
To gather testimonials for public outreach
To verify if patients are using the system as intended by collecting behavior patterns
To reveal hidden needs and values that don’t show up in surveys
To test whether patients follow standard clinical pathways to measure effectiveness
A design group listens to stories from immigrant families navigating pediatric care. What makes this a story-centered method?
It allows families to describe which hospital policies were most helpful in their experience
It centers personal experiences as a way to shape system solutions
It compares their answers to national benchmarks for quality of care
It uses anecdotes as examples during staff orientation sessions
Emma is working with a community group to understand their experiences with a new city park. She considers using story-centered co-creation instead of just relying on data dashboards or focus groups. Why might story-centered co-creation offer insights that data dashboards or focus groups miss?
Because it asks participants to rate their preferences in more detail than surveys allow
Because it captures emotion, context, and personal meaning
Because it focuses more on broad policy impact than on individual cases
Because it uses stories to confirm assumptions made in earlier planning stages
A clinic wants to improve end-of-life care. They invite patients and families to share how decisions were made, how conversations felt, and what mattered most. What is a key strength of this approach?
It helps enforce clinical best practices more consistently through reflection
It creates a clear list of service gaps to address in future design iterations
It brings emotional nuance into the design of sensitive care experiences
It measures how well patients remembered factual information provided by staff
Harper is working on a community project and wants to understand people's experiences. Instead of just interviewing participants for feedback, Harper considers using story-centered methods. What makes story-centered methods different from simply collecting feedback through interviews?
A. Story methods avoid drawing firm conclusions until further testing is done
B. Stories are usually told in writing, not spoken, and later interpreted by design experts
C. Stories are used to design with people, not just collect from them
D. Interview feedback is more honest than narrative input and includes direct quotations
At a hospital, Abigail, Ethan, and Liam—along with other staff and patients—are invited to co-create a recovery journey map by building it from lived stories. Why is this different from making a timeline of care?
It includes undocumented steps the system doesn’t always capture in formal records
It excludes institutional voices to prevent systemic bias from shaping the outcome
It makes room for emotional, social, and cultural dimensions
It skips moments that feel uncomfortable or uncertain in patient experiences
During a story-centered co-design workshop, Scarlett shares a personal story about her experience using a public transportation app. Beyond just sharing her experience, what is one way that Scarlett's story could function in the design process?
It allows designers to avoid more complex testing stages and user research
It validates expert knowledge by using personal experiences as supporting evidence
It serves as a building block for imagining better systems
It replaces traditional design processes by being more emotionally engaging
Ethan and his team collaborate with elders in their community to develop fictional patient personas, drawing from the elders' shared stories. What is the likely goal of this step?
To train medical students in narrative writing techniques and empathy
To turn individual insights into tools for designing across differences
To create promotional content that can be used in community outreach campaigns
To check consistency in participant responses against intake forms
A student group at a local hospital analyzes a set of patient stories and identifies emotional pain points around transitions between care settings. What should their next step be?
Convert the stories into numeric pain scores for easier tracking over time
Compare the stories to existing policy to see if inconsistencies can be resolved
Work with those storytellers to explore new ideas for smoother transitions
Check the stories for accuracy using medical records and discharge notes
Charlotte is leading a healthcare innovation project and wants to ensure the solutions developed truly address patient needs. She considers using story-centered co-creative methods with her team. What is a core reason for her to choose this approach?
To support grant writing with compelling quotes and real-life anecdotes for funding
To create more human-centered designs that reflect lived experience
To manage change with less resistance by improving communication strategies
To streamline documentation practices across facilities using personal narratives
