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This study embarked on the importance of and tendency on Halal products and services in Malaysia and the global market. In the global market, consumer base for Halal products is around 1.7 billion people and worth more than 2.3 trillion dollars. It makes the Halal market a vitally important emerging sector that should not be overlooked. From the market perspective, traditional target market remains in Asia and the Middle East; however, due to the effect of globalization, there is a significant development of market size for Halal market in Europe and the USA. Besides, in the Western country, most Halal product is still not readily available for the UK market. We see this phenomenon being applied not only on food items. Personal hygiene and healthcare products, toiletries, and cosmetics are all appearing as Halal options. Once Halal is understood as a lifestyle choice, the range of options for Halal product will increase exponentially. In Malaysia, Halal products are not a big issue as we can find Halal food everywhere from the street market up to the high-end chain. The competition can be considered intense in the market.

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The main priority of Malaysian healthcare design quality is to organize an informational domain of a patient-oriented care design by patient experience to usable environment. The usability evaluation is an appropriate qualitative research design dealing with a process concerning the understanding of the user and context of use. This paper provides strategies for evaluating quality architecture in use from user experience and approaches for analyses of applicable qualitative data. Case studies have been conducted to explore the usability of three replacement hospitals in Peninsular Malaysia using "USEtool" evaluation method introduced by Hansen, Blakstad, and Knudsen (2011). It is a five-stage evaluation process focusing on the following questions: for what, what, where and whom, why, and lastly, the final report as an action plan and input for the improvement of a building quality environment design in use. The process of data analysis is based on thematic analysis principles using NVivo 9. The findings indicate that (1) the quality of care is the positive users' experience feedback on the usability of physical environment design that fulfils their needs and expectations, (2) there is a strong relationship between the usability physical environment criteria and overall patient satisfaction, and (3) the usability evaluation is useful for benchmarking and creating comparative databases, which optimally accommodates the needs of users and acts as a learning feature for improving the existing or future design.