Our mission

Designing the Future of Health Together

Our Methods

Discover

Needs, upstream problems, bright spots and opportunities

Define

Define problems, resources and methods to innovate

Develop

Co-design Concepts & Proposals, new technologies and prototypes, Iterated & Assessed

Deliver

People-centered designs, applications, tools and technologies

How We Work

We work with community, industry and academia to transform health and healthcare through design thinking, innovation and next generation technology development from software applications, to service models, AI tools to new diagnostics and biometrics. 

Our Partners

Connect With Us

For any questions, please send us an email at c4h@ucsd.edu or see people page to connect with a particular team member. 

UNDERSTAND

DESIGN SPRINT

+ USER NEEDS AND INSIGHTS




+ STORYTELLING

PARTNER NEED

We have an idea for a product or feature, can you tell me if it has value? And for who?
Our product team wants to understand a specific user group – what are their core needs?

We want to tell a bigger story about our product to a specific audience, can you help me tell a story with real world evidence?

IDEATE

DESIGN SPRINT

+ CURRENT STATE VS FUTURE STATE

 


+ CONCEPT DESIGN

PARTNER NEED

We want to understand the current state of our product and how we might improve it – can you help me imagine the future state and what it would take to get there?

We want help articulating a new product feature or functionality – can you help me do some rapid concept development and testing?

ITERATE

DESIGN SPRINT

+ PROTOTYPING

 

+ USER FEEDBACK

PARTNER NEED

We have some new ideas but need help prototyping and testing these with real clinicians and patients.

We have some new concepts or prototypes – can you help me gather user feedback and provide recommendations/insights on how to improve these prototypes for patients?