"I envision a future of healthcare experiences that feel more empowering and connected.- By bridging clinical structures with everyday life, design can play a key role in shaping a more humane healthcare ecosystem."
About Me
Vision
I envision a future of healthcare experiences that feel more empowering and connected. For me, this means viewing design as a means to connect clinical structures with lived experiences in order to shape a more humane healthcare ecosystem.
The healthcare sector is currently at a critical turning point. Health demands are rising, the workforce is overstretched, and more responsibility is placed on individuals to manage their own health. At the same time, technological developments (take the integration of AI) aim to transform this landscape of health management. While these innovations can provide efficiency, they often risk oversimplifying what it means to live with illness. Many tools still approach patients through a clinical lens, reducing their needs to numbers and check-ins. This creates a gap where technologies are often built around how systems operate, rather than around how people live.
My vision as a designer is to help close this gap between the clinical world and lived experience. I see a future in which self-management is supported not only through functional tools, but through solutions that empower people by strengthening self-efficacy while recognising the contextual and psychological dimensions of health management. These psychosocial needs are fundamental to health and cannot be overlooked, as they both influence and are influenced by a person’s health trajectory. A crucial aspect of this is acknowledging the social networks surrounding patients and supporting these relationships rather than isolating individuals, particularly as self-management becomes increasingly central to healthcare.
Technology should contribute to a sense of dignity and agency, helping individuals feel understood rather than monitored and supported rather than overwhelmed. These aspects require designers to challenge the normative approaches in healthcare and to design for the lived experiences of patients, rather than expecting individuals to adjust themselves to one-size-fits-all healthcare structures.
Professional identity
I identify as a social healthcare designer who integrates design methodology with psychosocial and behavioural perspectives. My approach is grounded in developing a deep understanding of how people navigate health in their daily lives and translating these insights into meaningful, patient-centred health experiences.
Research is central to how I work within the complex health domain. I deliberately combine conventional and non-standard methods, particularly when direct access to users is limited. This includes, for example, leveraging social media platforms as seen in DiaDiary, applying design-led research methods, and actively building strong networks with stakeholders to develop a nuanced understanding of problem spaces and lived experiences. In my Final Master Project, this approach was formalised through Value Sensitive Design, enabling me to translate values into concrete design directions for self-management. This represents the bridge I build between research and practice, ensuring that insights are embedded in design outcomes rather than remaining theoretical.
I am also known for bringing structure to complex projects by navigating large sets of qualitative data, stakeholder perspectives, and ethical considerations. I identify where design can create value, assess which directions are realistic, and define clear next steps. Risk management is integral to my process, particularly in healthcare contexts where research and design decisions can have ethical consequences. I therefore prioritise a reflective stance and analyse potential risks within my design research to develop approaches that enable accessible and responsible collaboration.
Visualisation and prototyping are integral to my process for reducing complexity and supporting decision-making. I translate insights into design materials such as high-fidelity sketches, scenarios, and interactive prototypes, selecting the form of representation based on its purpose, whether to communicate functionality or convey experiential qualities. I view these design materials as tools to facilitate dialogue between designers and stakeholders and to support the meaningful investigation of assumptions throughout a project.
As a designer, I feel most at home working at the intersection where research and practice meet, enabling health innovations that are not only functional and feasible, but also empathic, supportive, and grounded in the lived experiences of the intended target group.
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