The focus of lecture this week was further analyzing the practicality of implementing a medical device in low-resource settings by performing build and market feasibility analysis. The lecture also focused on the WHO Landscape Analysis and what fact...More

            I believe that it is extremely important to consider the market and build feasibility of one’s product. It is extremely easy to get carried away with high-level ideas regarding the product. Yet, there has to be a sense of realism when de...More

This week, I learned most through doing the assignment. Part of the reason being that market and build feasibility are inutuitve concepts. When your building a project, you natural think about the cost of building it and whether people you are targe...More

The focus of lecture this week was determining what makes an idea or innovation take root in society easily while other ideas struggle to be accepted. I found it interesting that the main determinant of whether or not an innovation is accepted is no...More

            On the 31st of December each year, I along with millions of other individuals make resolutions for the upcoming year. These can be as simple as exercising everyday or as complicated as to stop drinking alcohol. However, most of these res...More

The lessons of this week came at a time where the substance of the lectures resonated with me. I am currently interning at a start up and I was discussing with a fellow employee about a meeting with a potential customer. He was explaining to me that...More

    The focus of lecture this week was “pretotyping.” Pretotyping is a unique way to externalize internal thinking and quickly evaluate the conceivability and success of a potential device. I really enjoyed the TED talk about rapid prototyping. I th...More

            This week’s lecture and assignments really got me thinking about the entire design process. Last semester, I took a course in UI/UX design and this semester, I am interning at a startup where I see the entire design process in action. I...More

This week I got to go through the process of designing a pretotype and a process of testing it. I found it very enlightening. Usually when you think about creating a prototype, you try to get the a really good mockup of the product and let people ev...More

The focus of lecture this week was using an empathetic approach to identify and solve problems in healthcare. By thinking of the individual feelings and experiences of people in the public health system, engineers and public health officials can bet...More

            This week really showed me how to assess individual and situational needs. My understanding of needs coming into the lecture was that needs should be assessed based on observations. However, one thing that I learned from this lecture was...More

This week was super interesting to me. I gained useful insight into how to identify and describe a need. However, coming into the week, I had a notion that I know how to describe a need. I had a belief that all you have to do is just observe and y...More

    The focus of lecture this week was the human-centered design approach to identifying needs in a situation and eventually developing solutions to those needs. I think the HCD approach is a very practical and efficient way to accurately assess a s...More

            This was not the first time I had heard about Human Centered Design. However, this was the first time I heard about it described as Hear-Create-Deliver. In my opinion, the latter definition of HCD better fits how the design process shoul...More

This week was a reminder to me on far we still have to come in this world.  Seeing the clinic in Sierra Leone was not a surprise to me. I knew that clinics in developing world weren't very technological advanced. However, there was something about s...More