Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health

Author:   Bon Ku (Assistant Dean for Health & Design, Thomas Jefferson University) ,  Ellen Lupton (Senior Curator, Contemporary Design and Founding Director, Graphic Design MFA, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum AND Maryland Institute College of Art)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
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9780262539135


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   17 March 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast cancer.This book makes a case for applying the principles of design thinking to real-world health care challenges. As health care systems around the globe struggle to expand access, improve outcomes, and control costs, Health Design Thinking offers a human-centered approach for designing health care products and services, with examples and case studies that range from drug packaging and exam rooms to internet-connected devices for early detection of breast cancer. Written by leaders in the field-Bon Ku, a physician and founder of the innovative Health Design Lab at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and Ellen Lupton, an award-winning graphic designer and curator at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum-the book outlines the fundamentals of design thinking and highlights important products, prototypes, and research in health design. Health design thinking uses play and experimentation rather than a rigid methodology. It draws on interviews, observations, diagrams, storytelling, physical models, and role playing; design teams focus not on technology but on problems faced by patients and clinicians. The book's diverse case studies show health design thinking in action. These include the development of PillPack, which frames prescription drug delivery in terms of user experience design; a credit card-size device that allows patients to generate their own electrocardiograms; and improved emergency room signage. Drawings, photographs, storyboards, and other visualizations accompany the case studies. Copublished with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Author:   Bon Ku (Assistant Dean for Health & Design, Thomas Jefferson University) ,  Ellen Lupton (Senior Curator, Contemporary Design and Founding Director, Graphic Design MFA, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum AND Maryland Institute College of Art)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
ISBN:  

9780262539135


ISBN 10:   0262539136
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   17 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Presented in practical, approachable prose, it offers context, methods, and case studies sourced from the medical community, such as a hand-held device for detecting breast cancer or a clothing line with functional openings that people with chronic illnesses can wear during medical procedures. -Architectural Digest


Presented in practical, approachable prose, it offers context, methods, and case studies sourced from the medical community, such as a hand-held device for detecting breast cancer or a clothing line with functional openings that people with chronic illnesses can wear during medical procedures. —Architectural Digest


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Bon Ku, MD, a practicing emergency physician, is Assistant Dean for Health and Design at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, where he is also Director of the Health Design Lab. Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. She is the author of many books, including Beautiful Users, Design is Storytelling, and The Senses- Design Beyond Design.

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