The Designer Will See You Now

Did you know that women make up only 34% of initial clinical trial participants and experience twice as many negative drug reactions as men? Today’s guests Carlotta Hillger and Hanna Kalesse are tackling this critical gap through their digital platform, TrialMe. Inspired by their own experiences with medication side effects, Carlotta and Hanna created TrialMe to connect women to clinical trials in...

Today’s episode is a fun one as we’re talking all about designing for play. Our guests Sydney and Dr. Kaitlin Wiseman are the co-founders of Playhouse MD, a line of childcare essentials that answer the question: could it be possible to transform your kid’s toughest moments into playtime? From their bestselling narwhal nasal bulb to our personal favorite, the newly-released giraffe thermometer, Syd...

Welcome back to The Designer Will See You Now podcast, where we talk health, design, and advocacy. Most healthtech conversations focus on the next 'cool' product that promises to revolutionize how we approach health. But… we rarely talk about the one thing that actually determines if people will use it: and that’s how it makes them feel. Today, we're talking about the stigma that prevents people f...

Welcome back to The Designer Will See You Now podcast, where we talk health, design, and advocacy. Today we’re excited to introduce TWO award-winning illustrators and animators, Emily Holden and Annie Campbell. They lead Now Medical Studios and uniquely specialize in medical illustration and animation, which means creating visualizations for educational materials, infographics, medical devices, an...

In one of our favorite conversations yet, we welcome Ti Chang, an award-winning industrial designer whose work in ‘pleasure jewelry’ explores the connection between pleasure, wellness, and societal taboos. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Crave, which boasts among its line the Vesper: a vibrator necklace “often seen on A-list celebrities that inspire sensual empowerment and provok...

Welcome back to our second After Work, where we grab a little drink and just chat about designs that we’re interested in. If you had to design a women’s health clinic brand from scratch, what sort of tone and online experience would you create? What does that tell us about the female healthcare experience? These are the questions we explore in this episode, as we do a casual design crit of a women...

For our second ever guest episode we’re thrilled to have Maja Magnusson, CEO of Care To Translate, a medical translation tool that helps break down language barriers between patients and care providers. A growing shortage of interpreters around the world can lead to long waiting times and loss of agency for patients, and stressful work environments with a higher risk of misdiagnosis and malpractic...

This month we’ve got a special mini-episode format we call Refills, where we top up your prescription of healthtech topics and trends. Join us, your co-hosts Bella and Ola, for a chat about grief, ambient scribing, and AI’s role in both. With questions like: Could AI’s potential for creating new experiences with passed loved ones interrupt our natural grieving process? Does saved time through ambi...

Cheers! 🥂 We’re back with our very first After Work episode, where we grab a little drink and just chat about designs that we’re interested in. Today that’s AsthmaTuner, an app and companion bluetooth device that help people with asthma live without symptoms. Bella started as AsthmaTuner’s first designer and continues to lead design 8 years later, and Ola had a stint designing at AsthmaTuner for...

Welcome back to the Designer Will See You Now podcast! This episode is a big milestone for us as we welcome our very first guest, Dr. Jared Sun, to discuss the importance of listening to and co-designing with patients. Jared is a Stanford-educated ER doctor and medical researcher who works part time in LA and part time in the Western Cape of South Africa. His work in South Africa focuses on helpin...

Welcome to The Designer Will See You Now podcast! In our first episode, meet us - the hosts and longtime designer-friends - Ola and Bella. We give some background on our personal journeys into design, what inspired us to start a health tech podcast, and most importantly why we think you’ll be inspired to listen. Instead of a tech conference, think of this as chatting with your pals who are passion...