Creating Emotion in Healthcare Design: Stuart Karten Featured in HIT Consultant

Ask any patient: interfacing with the healthcare system is a journey fraught with emotion. Feelings like fear, embarrassment, hope, and happiness all play a role in how people perceive their health experiences. During the course of designing medical and digital health products for the past 30 years, Karten Design has learned the integral role that emotion plays in a product’s functionality, outcome, and success. In a recent HIT article, Stuart Karten explains how K:D utilizes this knowledge, seeking to inspire a conversation often absent from medical product development—positive emotion.