Students designers and engineers from MIT, RISD and Harvard tackle the design of a pulse oximeter and a remote-monitoring tool for medical device donations.
Global health research group finds an unmet need for cost-effective diagnosis and treatment of neonatal jaundice
Zika Hackathon
Hack your Studio: 3D Printed Gadgets for your Tripod
Boston Design Week and NewCo Boston Open Studios
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How To Create a Killer Design Portfolio
DtM Book Review: Good to Great and the Social Sector
We love Jim Collins' Good to Great and the Social Sectors. At just 35 pages, it's the best kind of business book: all content and no filler. In analyzing the factors that create great social enterprises, Collins discovered...
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New Micro-Documentary
Check out a new video about DtM’s work on newborn health with our partner St Boniface Hospital in rural Haiti! The idea and the support for the piece came from our friends at the...
DtM Book Review: The Other Side of Innovation
We love Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble's Other Side of Innovation, specifically the second half of the book. For anyone who has ever resented being asked to...
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Hack Your Studio: Build a Z-Rack Whiteboard
What We're Reading
Myanmar study finds that high-intensity phototherapy can reduce exchange transfusion rates among newborns
A recently published study (Arnolda et al., BMC Pediatrics, 2015) demonstrates the impact of high-intensity phototherapy in averting the need for costly and dangerous exchange transfusions among...
DtM Book Review: The Back of the Napkin
Cartoons! They carpet the walls of our studio, and they make frequent appearances in DtM presentations and TED talks. In his 2009 book The Back of the Napkin, design thinker and professional doodler...
DtM Open Studio and T-Shirt Printing Factory!
You Asked, We Listened: New Firefly Case Study Highlights DtM’s Design Process
In the past, we’ve offered summaries of our product design process, for example in a TED talk (960K views) and our “Better by Design” paper in the Innovations Journal...
Tim Prestero Presents Pelican at Pneumonia Innovations Summit in New York
Established in 2009, World Pneumonia Day takes place every year on November 12th to raise awareness about pneumonia, the world’s leading killer of children under the age of five; promote interventions...