Healing by Design: How Designers Are Reimagining Care
In a time marked by global instability, technological upheaval, and healthcare fragmentation, it’s difficult to create space for the design we wish to see in the world. Designers, especially those in healthcare spaces, often face the brute force of these turbulent times, trying to design for preferable and hopeful futures in an environment that only cares for the next biggest, stickiest product to go to market.
Our panel of designers brings together voices from service, digital product, and industrial design who aren't just responding to today's challenges—they're actively shaping tomorrow's solutions with both pragmatism and radical hope.
Join us for an evening of honest conversation about navigating complexity, finding inspiration amid constraints, and uncovering the methodologies that enable meaningful innovation. You'll leave with practical strategies and insight for creating impact within your own organization.
Small bites and refreshments provided.
Panelists:
Charu Juneja is a startup advisor, founder of Righteous Design (a social impact design consultancy), and a coach at Stanford d.school. She was previously the Design and Product Director for Sutter Health’s Design and Innovation team, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania where she created the course Design for Recovery (Healing), and a senior design lead in IDEO’s health practice. Some of her favorite work includes Planned Parenthood and Scout for Sutter Health (a youth mental health app). Charu holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics from Miami University, and a master’s in business administration from Harvard University.
Cole Derby is Director of Industrial Design at Whipsaw who has led the design and success of projects for companies such as Tile, PacBio, Koniku, Samsung, Haier, Meta, Kabata, Aescape, Imperative Care, Tonal, Intel, Apple, Olympus, and many others. Many of his projects have won major industry accolades totaling more than 70 design awards, 20 design patents, and 40+ products shipped to market. Prior to joining Whipsaw in 2013, Cole designed products and experiences at Motorola, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit.
Priyanka Marawar is a UX design leader with over a decade of experience, driving impact with mission driven startups, nonprofits and public institutions. Priyanka brings her diverse toolkit (research, service, product), a data driven approach and deep empathy to address pressing problems across our health and education systems- access, quality and equity. At Headspace, she’s built expertise in influencing positive behavior change and achieving health outcomes at scale.
Aïcha Doucouré is French and has 15 years of experience in the design world, working in UX, Design Research, Service Design, and Design Operations. After healing from a burnout, she is commited to reducing suffering at work and fostering team performance through conscious collaboration. She’s now a leadership coach and designs experiences that support personal and collective growth.
Moderated by:
Hillary Carey, PhD, is a designer, researcher, educator, and leadership coach focusing on participatory design and collective visioning. Through her doctorate at Carnegie Mellon, she defined visionary strategies for collaborative leadership concentrating on social systems change and equitable design processes.