THE BOOK

Health Design Thinking

Health Design Thinking 2nd Edition, co-written by Ellen Lupton and Dr. Bon Ku and published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and MIT Press, is now available to order!!!

A practice-based guide to applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health challenges. Design thinking is an open mindset rather than a rigid methodology. It encourages participants to take risks and rewrite the rules of business-as-usual. Health Design Thinking specifically addresses the unique challenges surrounding the healthcare space, such as reducing medical errors, reimagining hospital waiting areas, and creating innovative products that improve comfort and efficiency; updated and expanded with post–COVID-19 innovations.

Specs:

ISBN: 9780262543606 | 228 pp. | 6.5 in x 8.5 in | 300 color photos Published February 2022

Retail: $19.95

THE AUTHORS

Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Her exhibitions include “Design & Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics,” “Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master,” “Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence,” and “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.” Her exhibition “Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” will be open December 2022–August 2021 at Cooper Hewitt. She teaches at MICA in Baltimore, where she has authored many books, including "Thinking with Type," "Graphic Design Thinking," and "Graphic Design: The New Basics." She is an AIGA Gold Medalist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Bon Ku, MD, MPP is the Assistant Dean for Health & Design at Thomas Jefferson University. A practicing emergency medicine physician, he is also the Director of the Health Design Lab and created the first design thinking program at a medical school. His innovative program tackles healthcare inequalities as a form of social justice and teaches future physicians to apply human-centered design to healthcare challenges. His work towards designing better health has been featured in The New York Times, CNBC, Fortune and Wired. Dr. Ku is the recipient of the Cambridge Health Alliance Art of Healing Award and healthcare innovation awards from The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal. He has spoken widely on the intersection of health and design thinking, appearing on PBS and across the country at events including TEDx, SXSW, and Mayo Clinic Transform. Dr. Ku joins Ann Curry as a regular panelist on the TV show Chasing The Cure.

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