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Podcast • Education
The Magic of Toymaking: From Concept to Playtime
What makes a toy design memorable, fun and interactive?
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Blog • Workplace • Virtual
Workplace Innovation Summit 2020 Recap
From December 7-11, 2020, the CoDesign Collaborative community gathered virtually for a week full of learning, engagement and fun through the Workplace Innovation Summit. This event focused on disrupting the workplace paradigm, taking advantage of the volatile environment that the ongoing pandemic has created in the workplace as a catalyst for much needed change and improvement with how we work.
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Community • Issue 017
UnitedHealth Group and Optum Emphasize the Care in Healthcare
As with virtually every other aspect of our lives, technology has revolutionized healthcare. Over the past decade, patients and healthcare providers began to interact through online and mobile devices.
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Community • Issue 017
Smarter Healthcare: Expanding Patient Engagement
The quest to improve American healthcare has traditionally focused on finding new drugs, producing more powerful diagnostic tools, and building medical centers with ever-expanding footprints. Despite these investments, costing 5 percent of GDP in 1960 and over 18 percent of GDP in 2018, the U.S. healthcare system is fundamentally broken, if not unsustainable.
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Community • Issue 017
Modern Midwifery: Designing Equitable Birthing Care
An Interview with Tiffany Townsend, Certified Professional Midwife, Doula, and Certified Lactation Counselor
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Community • Issue 017
Community as Medicine: Re-Designing Healthcare
I’m Dr. Elizabeth Markle. I’m a psychologist, an innovator and entrepreneur in the fields of human health and well-being, a scholar of Intentional Community (literally, community shaped by design), and Co-Founder of Open Source Wellness.
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Community • Issue 017
How will COVID-19 Change Healthcare Design?
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the overall resilience of our health system infrastructure to cope with increased demand. It has also brought the importance of design and the built environment to the forefront when considering emergency preparedness and infection control.
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Community • Issue 017
At the Interface Between Man and Machine: A Sneak Peak of Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics
Bespoke Bodies: The Design and Craft of Prosthetics is our latest book being published here at CoDesign, which is now available for pre-order. Included in this issue of Design Museum Magazine is an excerpt from the book, which highlights the incredible surgical innovations of Dr. Shriya Srinivasan and her team, who have developed an unprecedented technique for amputating limbs.
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Community • Issue 017
The Art of Designing for Behavior Change
Whether they are explicit about it or not, most designers ultimately want to create something that sparks change.
