Prof. Jose Colucci
Director of Research and Development
Design Institute for Health, University of Texas at Austin
Jose Colucci is the Director of Research & Development of the Design Institute for Health, where design is applied to both real-world healthcare challenges and medical education. Prior to that, José was a Sr. Director IDEO.
José has a BS in mechanical engineering, an MS in Industrial Design and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. He was a guest lecturer at Harvard, MIT, and Olin School of Engineering. Currently, he also teaches at the University
of Texas at Austin.
WORKSHOP DESIGN FOR HEALTH
Healthcare is one of greatest challenges of the century. To deliver better, more value-based care tomorrow, healthcare must become more human-centered; offer a new, more integrated approach; and broaden its focus to health, not
just healthcare.
Design has already created change and innovation in fields as diverse as consumer electronics, hospitality, and banking. But healthcare represents the last frontier of design, and an opportunity to
apply the people-first, fail-fast, highly generative principles of design to a field in desperate need of reform and innovation.
In this workshop, you will not learn to become a designer—that’s a lifelong pursuit and
involves
investment in your craft and the methods of design. But you will leave this course with an understanding of and practical experience with the fundamental methods of design, as well as some of the key mindsets essential
to design, and how those skills and mindsets have been applied to some of the most intractable problems in healthcare. In the space of two days, with some previous preparation, we will go from the basic tools of human-centered
design to ideation and prototyping.
