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User-centered design (UCD), a discipline that seeks to ground the design of an innovation in information about the people who will ultimately use that innovation, has great potential to improve the translation of evidence-based practices from behavioral medicine research for implementation in health care settings. UCD is a diverse, innovative field that remains highly variable in terms of language and approaches. Ultimately, we produced a glossary of UCD-related strategies specifically for experts in implementation research and practice, with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary collaboration in implementation efforts. We conducted a focused literature review to identify key concepts and specific strategies of UCD to translate into the implementation field. We also categorized the strategies as primarily targeting one or more levels of the implementation process (i.e., interventions, individuals, inner context, and …