From our 30+ years of experience in working with startups, we’ve found that inserting design as early as possible in the startup process is the differentiating factor in early acquisition. Design is the keystone of any startup, enticing both customers and investors by producing a well-packaged product that truly resonates with its end users. Learn why design is key for success in the highly volatile startup world.
Hearables are one of the fastest growing sectors in technology. It is only a matter of time before these hearable, voice-controlled devices will give way to more pervasive listening within our public and very private worlds. In a recent MD+DI article, Stuart Karten weighed in on the question when these hearable elements would be incorporated in medical devices.
Eunji Park, Karten Design’s Lead Design Strategist, recently presented an IDSA webinar where she explored the dynamics to understanding the increasingly-empowered health consumer. In addition, Eunji identified new opportunities for innovation through deep user insights, uncovered macro and micro contexts that influence user behaviors and needs, and defined the user experience journey and its ecosystem.
Karten Design recently had the pleasure to host and present an expert session on the future of the health care consumer experience as part of Fast Company’s FC/LA 2017 conference. FC/LA is an unconventional creative conference consisting of two days filled with networking opportunities and tour stops at Los Angeles’ most innovative companies.
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On Saturday, March, 11, 2017, Stuart Karten led an insightful panel with some of the brightest thinkers in the industry on hearable technology, titled “Hearables and the Age of Mediated Listening” at SXSW Interactive.
Karten Design’s work on Starkey Hearing Technologies’ Halo 2 recently took home the SXSW Interactive Innovation Award for the “Wearable Tech” category at the 20th annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards ceremony.
Patients today are taking on a greater responsibility as decision makers. We believe that establishing differentiation and competitive advantage is now just as important for health solution providers as consumers begin to take a bigger role in their health decisions.
Karten Design is proud to be a founding member of the USC Center for Body Computing and is honored to join the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Google, Yahoo, and several other leading Silicon Beach tech companies as founding partners of USC’s Virtual Care Clinic.
Stuart shared recent case studies and highlighted how researchers, strategists, designers, and mechanical engineers can assist healthcare companies in addressing some of the industry’s biggest challenges, such as introducing new technology and addressing the consumerization of healthcare.
