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Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
3

We're Hiring!

Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
3

Join our summer student design team!  In a ten-week design sprint, we will challenge you to develop a functional prototype of a medical device for newborns in developing countries, based on work already in progress...

Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
3

New Micro-Documentary

Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
3

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...

Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
Book Review, 3

DtM Book Review: The Other Side of Innovation

Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
Book Review, 3

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...

Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
3

What We're Reading

Timothy Prestero
February 11, 2016
3
What We're Reading

Scholarly articles, prototyping tips, gee-whiz technologies and bad jokes from DtM's internal mailing list: the February 2016 edition.

Timothy Prestero
January 25, 2016
3, FabLab

Hack Your Studio: Build a Z-Rack Whiteboard

Timothy Prestero
January 25, 2016
3, FabLab

Every design studio goes through mountains of post-it notes while brainstorming and charting ideas.  We love the portability of flip-chart posters, but even after moving to a big studio in Salem we never had...

Tagged: Design, How To

Timothy Prestero
January 25, 2016
3

What We're Reading

Timothy Prestero
January 25, 2016
3
What We're Reading

Scholarly articles, prototyping tips, gee-whiz technologies and bad jokes from DtM's internal mailing list: the January 2016 edition.

Design that Matters
January 20, 2016
Firefly News, 3

Myanmar study finds that high-intensity phototherapy can reduce exchange transfusion rates among newborns

Design that Matters
January 20, 2016
Firefly News, 3

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...

Tagged: Firefly, Myanmar

Design that Matters
January 13, 2016
Book Review, 3

DtM Book Review: The Back of the Napkin

Design that Matters
January 13, 2016
Book Review, 3

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...

Tagged: Book Review, Design, How To

Timothy Prestero
November 20, 2015
3

DtM Open Studio and T-Shirt Printing Factory!

Timothy Prestero
November 20, 2015
3
DtM Open Studio and T-Shirt Printing Factory!

Big thanks to everyone who came out for our Open Studio event on Tuesday! The crowd was a fantastic cross-section of the DtM community, including global health experts...

Tagged: Design

Timothy Prestero
November 19, 2015
Firefly News, 3

You Asked, We Listened: New Firefly Case Study Highlights DtM’s Design Process

Timothy Prestero
November 19, 2015
Firefly News, 3
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...

Timothy Prestero
November 12, 2015
Pelican News, 3

Tim Prestero Presents Pelican at Pneumonia Innovations Summit in New York

Timothy Prestero
November 12, 2015
Pelican News, 3
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...

Tagged: Pelican

Timothy Prestero
October 28, 2015
Firefly News, 3

Myanmar Jaundice Study Reveals Different, More Severe Disease in Developing Countries

Timothy Prestero
October 28, 2015
Firefly News, 3
Myanmar Jaundice Study Reveals Different, More Severe Disease in Developing Countries

Jaundice is the most common neonatal ailment requiring treatment. Untreated, it can lead to acute bilirubin encephalopathy (ABE), chronic bilirubin encephalopathy...

Timothy Prestero
October 27, 2015
3

Remembering Carolyn Lynch

Timothy Prestero
October 27, 2015
3

Carolyn Lynch, a tireless advocate for education and health care in New England and around the world, died of complications from a recent diagnosis of leukemia, on October...

Design that Matters
September 16, 2015
Firefly News, 3

Firefly, Now in 18 Countries Worldwide

Design that Matters
September 16, 2015
Firefly News, 3

Firefly’s impact continues to grow, and fast! With new units in Uganda, Nigeria, Somaliland, and Tanzania, as of September 2015, DtM partners Thrive Health and Vietnamese manufacturing partner...

Tagged: Firefly, Africa, Asia

Design that Matters
September 8, 2015
Otter News, 3

DtM Tests New Otter Warmer Concepts in Haiti

Design that Matters
September 8, 2015
Otter News, 3

This August, Design that Matters returned to Haiti to visit our partners at St Boniface Hospital.  It was a busy trip, dodging between Tropical Storms Danny and Erika.  We were able to check in on the two Firefly units that have...

Tagged: Haiti, St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, Otter, Firefly

Design that Matters
September 1, 2015
3

Meet DtM’s New Team Members, Mengyuan He and Malory Johnson

Design that Matters
September 1, 2015
3

DtM is excited to announce two new team members!

Design that Matters
February 10, 2015
Firefly News, 3

A Great Year for Firefly: 2014 Stats

Design that Matters
February 10, 2015
Firefly News, 3

Firefly is now in ten countries in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Caribbean treating thousands of newborns. The phototherapy device has been out in the field long enough for us to start collecting some...

Tagged: Firefly, Africa, Asia

Design that Matters
February 2, 2015
3

Bon Voyage, Elizabeth!

Design that Matters
February 2, 2015
3

Bon Voyage to DtM Director of Product Development Elizabeth Johansen after five awesome years, which included the launch of the world's most effective newborn phototherapy device.  We're sad that she...

Tagged: Elizabeth Johansen

Design that Matters
February 2, 2015
2

DtM in USAID Idea to Impact Report

Design that Matters
February 2, 2015
2

Design that Matters was featured in a case study for USAID’s Idea to Impact Report. The case study of DtM’s Firefly project emphasized that good design must consider the needs of a large number of stakeholders...

Tagged: Firefly

Design that Matters
January 31, 2015
Firefly News, 2

DtM Firefly on CCTV America’s Full Frame

Design that Matters
January 31, 2015
Firefly News, 2

"Two of our guests this week are determined to achieve one of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals: reducing child mortality. Tim Prestero, founder and CEO of Design that Matters, and Dr. Kate Rogers...

Tagged: Firefly

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