EP 117: Designing Open-Source Medical Software | Maya Friedman & Kelly Watson

On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing open
source medical software.  Maya Friedman is a digital product
design lead and art director who designs solutions for unmet needs
in the health tech and femtech spaces. She currently leads the user
experience, visual and sonic design for Tidepool's FDA-cleared,
automated insulin dosing mobile application, Tidepool Loop. She is
also the founder of The Period Project, which supports the creation
of an ecosystem of software solutions, research initiatives, and
education to address the unmet needs of women+ with diabetes,
through the different phases of a woman’s life cycle including
menstruation and pregnancy. Prior to joining Tidepool, Maya was a
creative lead for Allbodies Health, designing education to improve
sex, mind and body literacy. She also worked as a creative at Made
Music Studios, driving the design and strategy for digital-audio
experiences, most notably leading a partnership with the Cooper
Hewitt Design Museum to develop an audio-first design exhibition
around alarm fatigue in hospital settings. She thrives leading a
team of product designers, illustrators, user researchers and sound
designers to design solutions for topics such as health and body
literacy, menstrual health and alarm fatigue. Maya has her MFA in
Media Design practices with a focus on femtech and sextech design
from ArtCenter College of Design. Kelly Watson is VP, Product &
User Experience for Tidepool, a digital health nonprofit building
solutions for people with diabetes. Kelly has worked to ensure the
patient, the clinician and care partners are at the center of the
product design process, leading Tidepool to achieve rapid market
adoption growing its global ecosystem to over 450,000 people with
diabetes and 12,000 clinicians. At Tidepool, she has led
partnerships with many of the world’s largest diabetes medical
device companies and technology companies. Previously Kelly worked
in bench research at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and
Research, FDA (CBER-OVRR DVP) and the National Institute of Mental
Health prior to building out a product design consultancy. She is
an angel investor and advisor for emerging digital health startups.
Kelly advocates for patient ownership of health data,
interoperability and open healthcare standards. Episode mentions
and links: https://www.tidepool.org Tidepool loop has received FDA
clearance Tidepool loop origin story Tidepool: Ways to give Maya’s
restaurant rec: Saffy’s Kelly’s restaurant rec: Hook Fish Co.
Follow Maya: LinkedIn | Instagram Follow Kelly: LinkedIn | Twitter
Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/117