Highly recommend to anyone interested in learning more about health and design. Thank you to all the people who help produce the show.

My favorite podcast. I learn a lot! Excellent job.

It’s the one podcast I always come back for, because of the refreshing topics and the excellent choice of guests

Subscribe to Design Lab, your time is precious and this one deserves the spot in your “up next” list.

This podcast is like finding an oasis in the dessert. Bringing together areas that have some work and are ripe for innovation! I love hearing these conversations. I am inspired by the ideas and the work being done. I am encouraged as a designer, and am now looking for opportunities to grow and connect into healthcare design.

“Design Lab” is a weekly listen for me. The wide variety of guests and topics always leaves me with new ideas and a number of “I never thought of that before” moments during the podcast. The length of the podcast is a great for a walk around the neighborhood or a bike ride on the trails. Keep up the great work!

For a while now, I have been searching for platforms which discuss design thinking and it’s potential/actual role in healthcare. And I love what this podcast is doing, it’s opening ways to discuss and learn about the importance of change that is happening and needs to happen in healthcare!!

What an insightful show!

I really enjoy listening to this light-hearted and idea provoking podcast. The guests on the show are some of the most interesting people doing some of the most interesting things out there in this wonderful healthcare and design intersection. Dr. Bon Ku also makes the conversation personal and warm.

I stumbled on this podcast and I LOVE it. Great host and great guests. What I love about this podcast is they look at healthcare from many different lenses. As someone who works in healthcare, it is refreshing to listen to.

I met Dr. Ku at Stanford’s Med X Conference several years ago. At the time, I was a lecturer at Stanford’s d. School teaching healthcare design classes to interdisciplinary students. At the conference I learned about his “Health Design Lab,” at Thomas Jefferson University Medical School where he works with students to develop new design concepts for the healthcare sector. I LOVE these podcasts. I appreciate how they all connect issues regarding our environment, systemic racism, cultural norms and a complex healthcare system while exposing the elephants in the room such as current US birth outcomes in black and brown communities, the difference between universal vs. inclusive design, and the history of intentionally designed inequity in our country (ie. redlining communities). As I tell my students, design can be a form of activism. I loved today’s episode with Pinar Guvenc from SOUR. She coined a term that resonated for me, “Diagnostic Ideation”. I thought that was a very accurate description of what we do when we want to get to the “why” behind problems. The idea is to expose an insight through asking “why?” “The 5 whys” is an iterative interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem by repeating the question "Why?". Each answer forms the basis of the next question. The "five" in the name derives from an anecdotal observation on the number of iterations needed to resolve the problem. This technique can be traced to Sakichi Toyoda, a Japanese inventor and industrialist. Not to be trivialized: Dr. Ku’s extremely soothing voice. Something we all can benefit from.

As an architect designing healthcare spaces, I’m always curious to hear about the various perspectives in healthcare delivery. Each weeks’ guest gives me more insight to the complex landscape of healthcare, nationally and globally. This podcast is a must listen for anyone who wants to make an impact on health through design. Kudos to Bon and his production team on a great podcast!

As an experienced UX designer in healthcare, I am always sampling the latest resources for something that relates. This podcast does more than relate, it inspires! Not just information… it feels like a flashlight illuminating one more clear step forward in this unknown out of control system. Kudos to the team and thank you to you and your guests.

Dr. Bon Ku brings a phenomenal range of design perspectives to the listener. While it’s naturally healthcare oriented, I think anyone who seeks design inspiration will enjoy it. Really high quality, interesting conversations.

I have zero background in healthcare, but I love this show. It’s so practical and good at sparking different ways of thinking about things. I often replay the episode as soon as I finish listening to it, just to help concepts percolate more. Love the bias towards hands-on real-life experience to understand why people do things - like getting pharma execs to eat (gross-flavored) jelly beans 3x a day to mimic a patient experience and realize that “medication adherence” requires much more than just handing people instructions..

Love this podcast. Bon’s curiosity and enthusiasm and the great diversity of guests result in a wonderful mind-expansion. I am a seasoned healthcare designer and have still have learned a lot / been reminded of even more. Thanks Bon for your (and your team’s) hard work on this!

As a current resident, this podcast has inspired me to reimagine the practice and design of impactful quality care. Thank you!

Design Lab does the phenomenal work of showing how everyone has proximity to design in our lives and demonstrating the power of design to make change. Bon is accessible and authentic and a rock star all at once!!

This show brings such a refreshing, much-needed perspective to healthcare discussions. It's gripping, inspiring, and, to top it off, Bon Ku's voice is like butter!

As a former architectural designer and current med school applicant this podcast is my bread and butter. Love what you’re doing!! The content is original, approachable, and engaging. Thank you for the ongoing inspiration: a great reminder of the innovation borne of intersecting perspectives!!

Dr Ku’s passion for human centered design comes through crystal clear through this great podcast. Physicians and designers are humans and he shows the best side of how to design healthcare to make human lives better. Keep these episodes coming!

I wasn’t sure what to expect bc I wasn’t sure how design and health related. But it’s really chill and like having a conversation with a good, wise friend. Bon is really good-natured and seems down to earth while obviously being knowledgeable. I love that each episode has a takeaway that can be practically applied to your life, and I find myself thinking about for hours afterwards. Highly recommend!

I love this podcast so much! I really appreciate that Dr. Ku provides an actionable takeaway in every episode that anyone can apply to their own life. I also love that the conversations are open, vulnerable. and relatable and really seek to understand the guest as a person outside of their work. I recommend this podcast to everyone!

Love the diverse perspectives on this podcast, and the introduction to design concepts and how they are relevant to all of us. Please add transcripts if you can. And it might be nice to have an “abstract” for each to sum up what it about and key take homes.

It’s great to have a weekly dose of inspiration from Bon and the amazing guests he brings onto the show. I love the careful attention to highlighting a key take home each week around the issue of leveraging design (in all its forms) to make our daily lives a bit happier and healthier. Definitely needed these days!

Hiya! I saw Dr. Natter posted this on his story and decided to check it out. I’m personally not a huge fan of the intro/interlude music but that’s just me. I liked the questions asked and I thought it was well done. It felt like just listening to you two talk. I think I’ll subscribe and listen to more it was pretty soothing while I made breakfast. Thanks so much and take care xx

Love this podcast so much! Great for long car rides.