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...
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...
What We're Reading
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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...




