Instructor Description

Healthcare is one of the most complex and high-stakes environments for technology design—where time is limited, decisions matter, and poorly designed tools can cause real harm. In this hands-on, interdisciplinary course, you will collaborate with Dell Medical School students and faculty to tackle real healthcare challenges using human-centered design and rapid prototyping. Guided by the Stanford d.school design thinking framework, you will move from empathizing and defining unmet needs to ideating, prototyping, and testing practical solutions that fit within real healthcare needs. Using Lovable vibe coding platform, you will focus on developing a meaningful core feature that addresses a specific problem. Working in teams, you will create product requirements documents (PRDs), design documentation, and functional web-based prototypes using vibe coding, conduct pilot testing, and refine your solution. Projects culminate in presentations at UT-level conferences and portfolio-ready materials to strengthen your resume, with exceptional teams having the opportunity to pursue IRB approval and submit their work to HCI, medical education, or healthcare conferences.