What does it mean to design for individual patients or healthcare systems? What are common problems patients encounter as they traverse the healthcare system and what unique solutions and creative inspirations can we propose? In Designing Health care students will experience 4 patient case scenarios that intimately illustrate patient disease onset, initial interaction with the healthcare system, hospital stay, surgical encounters and post operative or post treatment course. Each patient case presentation will be followed by discussion of observations and identification of inspirations, problems and design opportunities. Students will then identify a single design they would like to execute as their final project. This class will take place on two Saturdays spaced 1 month apart. Final project options will be broad and might manifest as code, an interface or medical device prototype, hacking the interior design of a healthcare space, a systems design proposal or art inspired by a patient case.

Chris Andrew Anthony