The Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology is building thought leadership and practice around using design to innovate for humanity’s most pressing, confounding issues. The world faces daunting global challenges—complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable problems—that...
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Changing Diabetes Care for Good
How everyone stands to benefit from a better understanding and use of patients’ perspectives and experiences of life with type 2 diabetes when designing and implementing treatment interventions. The current approach to diabetes management is flawed. Providers’ use of the concepts of...
Irrational Choices, Unfathomable Outcomes: Patient Ethnographies in Pharmaceutical Research
With the proliferation of oral therapies (in place of injectables) for many chronic conditions, the locus of medical treatment is shifting from the surveilled context of the clinic to the private space of the home. In the home, compliance and persistency – the extent to which patients take...
Crescent Cove—Changing Course
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Defining Social Determinants for Resilient Health
Kurt Ward is a Senior Design Director at Philips Healthcare who is responsible for strategic alliances and collaborations across businesses and partners to stimulate, inspire and explore new value spaces and...