Two veterans of the pioneering IDEO design firm will lead the Design Institute for Health, a first-of-its-kind institution dedicated to applying design thinking and creative solutions to the nation’s health care challenges, and to integrating that perspective into medical education and community health programs.
The Design Institute for Health is a collaboration between the new Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. The institute will be led by two veterans of the internationally recognized design firm IDEO: Stacey Chang, IDEO’s former managing director of health and wellness; and Beto Lopez, former global lead of systems design at IDEO and a UT Austin alumnus.
IDEO is credited with a number of landmark designs that established its reputation, including the original computer mouse, the folding laptop computer and the Palm PDA device. Since then, IDEO has expanded its reach into the design of offerings as diverse as educational systems, public policy, retail spaces and children’s toys.
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