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Orange Juice – KARTEN:DESIGN blog on the intersection of Design, Business and Culture » 5 Strategies for Making Design Research Actionable for Health Products. For the past month my co-worker, designer Eric Schmid, and I have spoken to audiences of designers, researchers, and product development professionals about making design research actionable for healthcare products.

Orange Juice – KARTEN:DESIGN blog on the intersection of Design, Business and Culture » 5 Strategies for Making Design Research Actionable for Health Products

We were excited to present together as a researcher and a designer, sharing how the two of us have collaborated in various projects to make sure that design research is translated into product innovation. Much of our healthcare product development at Karten Design involves introducing disruptive innovation into the healthcare system. We’ve developed products like the V2 Renal Denervation System that enable doctors to perform new procedures, and we’ve even designed products that change the ways consumers manage their own health. Although such innovations promise to raise the standard of care and save time and money, it’s still possible for them to meet resistance.

After all, we’re asking people to make changes to the habits they’ve built for years. Hidden House // Teatum + Teatum. The house is organised over two levels and structured around a 7 metre high internal lightwell.

Hidden House // Teatum + Teatum

Living spaces interface across the central lightwell, allowing bedrooms and living areas to overlap and connect. This interface between spaces seeks the opportunity for programmes to infect one another. Ultimate Pirate Ship Bedroom (14 pics) "The rope bridge is connected to the top of the jail cell, built to accommodate evil doers, thieves and little sisters.

Ultimate Pirate Ship Bedroom (14 pics)

" Designer Steve Kuhl fulfills every boy's fantasy with this insanely cool pirate ship bedroom. The six-year-old occupant from Minnesota chose between a space ship, race car, castle, and pirate ship.