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