Welcome our guest, Alex Mandel from Omada Health, ex-Google.

Alex Mandel is a designer, researcher, and product strategist.

A sneak peek into this episode:

- "With the additional bureaucracy, there are additional resources and you can, in some ways, solve bigger problems or at least have more resources behind aiming at these problems."

- "The tactic that we take is if you're in a lower motivational quality, the first thing that we need to do is raise your motivational quality. Ideally shifting from what we called, like extrinsic motivation, a financial reward, or whatever to the intrinsic motivation "I want to do this, so I can go on that bike ride" for instance.

- "We have managed to distribute ownership over the team processes across the team. There's actually only one design meeting that I lead."

Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-mandel-12a52035/

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Today our guest is Marek Kultys, director of User Experience at BenevolentAI, an AI drug discovery company.

He designed products for clinical decision-making and reporting, for finding, sharing, and visualizing biomedical data, for running clinical trials, and for portable DNA research.

A sneak peek into this episode:

- "In the biomedical context, our users always want to see more. We try not to filter and assume what might be useful, what might not be useful from the user perspective, the default option from a design side would be to list everything that we know."

- "Sometimes we ask our users to just sketch and then build on top of their ideas. Some of them are so wild that we wouldn't be able as designers to even come up with these things. Those ideas come from the understanding deeper understanding of the data."

Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-kultys

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Hi guys, and welcome to Health Tech Matters. Today our guest is Nicole Cassese, Copy Lead, Content & Brand at BetterUp, ex-Headspace Standards Editor.

A sneak peek into this episode:

- "Vulnerability is a strength and you're not being weak by taking care of yourself. If you're in a better state of mind and a better state of being, you're going to be able to be there for everything else."

- "At the beginning of every single week, I make sure that any free time that hasn't been built into a meeting is then thrown into a writing block so that people don't overbook it. If I don't keep the writing time, then I won't have that time to get in the zone and do the best work that I can."

Our guest, Nicole Cassese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-cassese

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Hi guys, and welcome to Health Tech Matters. Today our guest is Dan Kenger, VP of Design at hims & hers.

In this episode we are discussing:

- creative processes in the team

- decision making

- routines to track team progress

- feedback sharing and many more!

Our guest, Dan Kenger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-kenger-5ba23b12/

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Hi guys, and welcome to Health Tech Matters. Today our guest is Liam Carter-Hawkins, Ex Lead Product Designer at Babylon Health.

Listen to the first part of our conversation in the previous episode.

Our guest, Liam Carter-Hawkins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamcarterhawkins/

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Hi guys, and welcome to Health Tech Matters. Today our guest is Liam Carter-Hawkins, Ex Lead Product Designer at Babylon Health.

In this episode we are discussing:

- offline user testing, pros and cons

- international expansion and its challenges

- measuring the success of a new product

- design sprints and many more!

Our guest, Liam Carter-Hawkins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamcarterhawkins/

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Hi guys, and welcome to Health Tech Matters. Today our guest is Annie Liu, senior UX researcher at Ada health, applied anthropologist.

Listen to the first part of our conversation in the previous episode.

Our guest, Annie Liu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liuannies/

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Hi guys, and welcome to Health Tech Matters. Today our guest is Annie Liu, senior UX researcher at Ada health, applied anthropologist.

In this episode we are discussing:

- frameworks to prioritize user research findings

- reflections about the past experience and how to make it work

- stakeholder engagement

- measuring UX research

- implementation of the research findings and many more!

Our guest, Annie Liu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liuannies/

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

Hi! My name is Mary and I am a healthcare product designer.

In this season of Health Tech Matters, I will be talking to product designers, researchers, and branding experts in healthcare startups such as Ada Health, Babylon Health, and many more. We will be discussing the frameworks design teams use, their processes, and measuring success. 

Subscribe and Stay tuned!

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My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/

In this episode, we are discussing glucose monitoring, wearable injectors, and product testing.

Our guest: David Flinner, Co-Founder of Levels.

Levels provide users with a constant glucose monitor (CGM) patch that attaches painlessly to the arm and can do real-time metabolism tracking via an app.

Levels website: https://www.levelshealth.com/

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- We tend to launch things that are very early and get feedback. For instance, on Monday we launched a new sharing feature. I emailed all of our members to ask what they thought and I got a lot of feedback and we're launching a new version with a much improved different sharing functionality today.

- A big strategy of ours has been content and the content strategy is that we want to be true thought leaders in the space of metabolism for the general populace. There really isn't a lot of research on metabolism outside of diabetes management out there.

- One of the things that really drives our remote culture is this idea of asynchronicity. So whether it's an email or a Slack or anything the expectation is always that the person won't respond right away.

You have to plan ahead making sure that you supply all the details that you might need when that person finally gets to it. And I think that's been a really big key to our remote culture is not relying on people to be there in real-time. And then coming up with tools that fit into that new framework.

So we'll do video chats as well, but oftentimes they're video recording. So we'll trade back and forth video recordings with loom. Of course, we do have some synchronous meetings, but it's usually the exception rather than the rule. 

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How to find me? Maria Borysova, healthcare product designer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/