Designing Healthcare Products and Services - Professional Diploma

Would you like to design tangible products, like medical devices, digital tools, like health apps, or services like patient pathways?  

Learn how to apply human-centred design and innovation to healthcare with UL’s one-year, part-time Professional Diploma in Designing Healthcare Products and Services.  

This programme focuses on design thinking, empathy-driven processes, and user-centred methodologies to develop new healthcare products and services that improve patient experiences and outcomes.  

You will explore healthcare service design, prototyping and testing, and UX/UI for medical solutions, while collaborating across disciplines such as design, engineering, business, and clinical practice.  

Ideal for designers, engineers, clinicians, or innovators who want to improve patient experience and outcomes through better design. 

This programme is a pathway to the MSc in Design for Health and Wellbeing and, also qualifies for a Flexible Master's Pathway, allowing students to combine postgraduate awards to achieve a master’s over time. 

The Professional Diploma in Designing Healthcare Products and Services will be particularly desirable for the staff as design is now recognised as a core element in solving challenges and problems faced by healthcare systems. 

The abilities and skills developed by participating in such an educational programme will allow our staff to confidently contribute to the improvement as well as development of healthcare products and services. 

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During this programme, you will

• Gain an understanding of product and service design innovation, process design, manufacturing design and strategic design. 

• Explore real-world challenges linked with industry (health services, medical devices, life sciences) and healthcare providers and work on external partner specified design briefs around specific development requests. 

• Develop expertise in ethics and good clinical practice for medical device design and regulations. 

• Conduct design research in a clinical setting to uncover healthcare needs to create a design guide on service systems solutions. 

• Learn about entrepreneurship and the analytical and conceptual skills required to establish a new innovative venture in healthcare