Verse

We are well versed in a hypothesis driven art and design practice with an expertise in working with chronic health conditions.

We offer design consulting services for companies large and small doing strategic design research, product design and storytelling. We are thorough and sensitive to the creative process and love collaborating across disciplines to bring the best product design to fruition.

We work across disciplines and at the intersections of art, science, design and medicine. We love the complexity of designing in healthcare and understand how to bridge the value of data with peoples day to day with technology and medicine.

Notes From the Nerve Bible

Visual and conceptual research in the form of a book filled with a collection of prints, words and drawings exploring the ways we represent and relate to the human body.
Penland

Spine Spring Books

Exploring the dynamic-ness of the spine and looking for ways to visualize the tensegrity of the spine.
Penland

Body Layers

A drawing, printing, binding, sewing and sculpting experiment to connect layers of a bodied experience.
Penland

Table of Danish Rye Bread Elements

What is it made of? How healthy is it? Why is it so heavy? There were so many questions about the dense Danish rugbrød, so it was time to investigate. CIID

Friends With Self

Exploring the relationship between the left and right hand's individual connection the rest of the body and its  content and expression.
Contintent.cc magazine

Digestive Tunnel Book

A tunnel book of a simple watercolor diagram of the digestive system.
Penland

Biohacking Installation

In an exhibition room at the Medical Museum in Copenhagen we installed and facilitated an open biology lab – a space for visitors to participate in experiments and pick up the know how to do it on their own.
Medical Museion / Studio Lab / Labitat

Analogic Bodies Screening

A screening and talk at Husets Biograf Copenhagen exploring analogies we use to describe and know the body
Husets Biograf Copenhagen

Aesthetics of Healthcare Technology

My pancreas, is small and black, rectangular, compact, and outside of my body. Could it be any more foreign? At least we speak a similar language, at least I am technology friendly and it hasn’t been hard to understand what my pumps functions are.
The Flux Factory

MyMe Concept Product

Medical data is oddly impersonal considering its personal origins. How can people engage with, internalize and process medical data (or any data…) if it does not relate to them in a personalized way?
CIID

Data Dance

“Not the ghost in the machine, but the body in the medium is the central dilemma of modern communications…” – John Durham Peters
CIID

Strategic Research and Storytelling for New models of care for type 2 diabetes

We did design research with people using connected devices and pharmacists to understand system design opportunities.

Lilly R&D and Desert Oasis Health Center

System Design for Automated Triggers for Clinic Workflow

We designed an automated system for triaging and responding to connected device data for the division of endocrinology.

UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation

Foundational User Experience for the iLet Bionic Pancreas

We translated clinical research system for automated dual hormone delivery into a consumer product experience for people with type 1 diabetes.

Beta Bionics

User Interface design and Demo for New Machine Learning Tool

We worked to create a simple user interface for business and engineering teams to collaboratively build a machine learning model.

Vinai

UX Design and Testing for Stroke Rehabilitation Experience

We prototyped and tested concepts with participants to create a design direction for the stroke rehabilitation experience using a BCI and robotic arm with a therapist.

Nuerolutions

Foundational Product Design of Diabeteswise.org

We translated academic research into a community and clinical resource to support decision making and prescribing diabetes.

Stanford School of Medicine

Foundational User Experience for Tidepool.org

We worked with the company from the beginning to design a suite of apps and platform for diabetes data.  

Tidepool.org

Strategic Design Research and Product Design for automated insulin delivery

We did hypothesis driven design testing using new adaptive algorithms to design an insulin delivery system that is accessible to non-experts.

Tandem Diabetes

case studies 2023

Clients and Collaborators

Our clients are usually innovators themselves — with a vision they want to validate and bring to life. We work collaboratively and strategically to answer the highest priority questions at the right time.
For Inquiries please contact sara@versedesign.co