UX Australia - The Porn Project: Co-Designing a digital health resource with vulnerable young people to enhance sexual health literacy

In this talk, we’ll be sharing insights on how co-design can be an effective tool for designing around a sensitive topic like pornography, realities of co-designing and it can help create better health promotion resources.

In what we dubbed “The porn project” we were tasked 

• To build the sexual health literacy of vulnerable young people (16 years +), improve their sexual health literacy, attitudes and confidence to negotiate potential exposure to online pornography
• To use co-design methods to ensure the resource meets young people’s needs, desires and would be an effective health promotion tool.
• Design, develop and have evaluated a functional digital prototype of this resource

We’ll go through our approach, methodology and learnings.

This talk is part of the UX Healthcare Australia conference, UX Healthcare's aim to make a difference in Healthcare, because better design is needed in the healthcare industry. From clinicians, healthcare insurances to hospital equipment manufacturers - their goal is to help healthcare across the world to implement the best user experiences possible.

Mike is the Director of Sheda an Innovation, Design and product development company. Sheda helps organisations explore complex problems with empathy and deliver impactful solutions using a combination of design and advanced technology to make things that matter. 

Sheda has worked with Health Organizations like Vic Health, The Burnet Institute, the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University and several Digital Health Startups to envision, design, develop and deliver solutions that have a positive health impact. 

Mike is interested in exploring how digital technologies can help us live better, healthier lives.