The idea of social objects in the design of digital services was proposed in 2005 by Jyri Engeström the co-founder of the microblogging platform Jaiku. In a blog post titled ‘Why some social network services work and others don’t’, he rejected the idea that successful digital social networks are

There are some types of service design problem which are first and foremost about user experience. The assumption that must be tested is: can we design a form that someone can complete, or a website that someone can navigate. This is the type of problem that the classic discovery->

Part of India’s National Health Authority, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission was founded in 2021 to design, build, operate and scale digital public infrastructure for India’s health system. Among the products and platforms it is responsible for are the Unified Health Interface, which provides open protocols for linking