
Healthcare, like many industries, offers considerable opportunities to improve lives directly through the discipline of user-centered design. This online Human-Centered Healthcare certificate at The New School is ideal for practitioners working in healthcare settings who want systems-focused, design-driven tools for improving service delivery and developing entrepreneurial opportunities and for creatives seeking new skills in user-based research, design, and innovation.
Design is contributing to new ways of delivering care at a service level — from digital solutions to product-service systems. In this course, we explore how systems of care are being transformed through design. Whether for organizational change or industry disruption, design is a critical force in the transformation of healthcare as we know it.
Using a project-based approach, students learn to identify opportunities to have an impact in their chosen context, gain an understanding of the human experience of care, and develop strategies to shape a more human-centered experience for patients, staff, clinicians, and/or caregivers. This course is aimed at those with differing levels of design and/or healthcare experience and is appropriate for designers, administrators, clinicians, and entrepreneurs — anyone interested in the unique intersection of design and healthcare.
Courses last five weeks. Most students take two courses per semester. The certificate must be completed in two years.
Courses included:
This programme may require students to demonstrate proficiency in English.
$577 per course, $1731 total
Check the programme website for information about funding options.
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