[change] Global health tech company Medic Mobile is hiring an interaction designer
Hi Everyone, I work with a non-profit tech company called Medic Mobile and wanted to let you know that we're looking to hire an interaction designer to be based at one of our offices (San Francisco, Nairobi, Katmandu) or work remotely. See the full posting below and feel free to contact me if you have any questions! cheers, Isaac Full posting: https://www.medicmobile.org/join/interaction-designer *Interaction Designer* Medic Mobile is a nonprofit technology company that was founded in 2010 to improve health in underserved communities. Our organization builds mobile and web applications for community health workers (CHWs), health system managers, and decision-makers. We see healthcare service delivery gaps through the eyes of our users and their patients, and co-design improved workflows and systems with local implementing partners. Medic Mobile has worked with over 60 partners across 23 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the US. Based in San Francisco with regional offices in Africa and Asia, our technology supports over 14,000 frontline health workers and is helping improve healthcare delivery for over 8 million people. *Job Description* Position: Interaction designer Type of employment: Full-time Location: Flexible. Medic has offices in San Francisco, Nairobi, and Kathmandu, and 30% of our teammates work remotely. As Medic’s primary interaction designer, you will help bring the insights from our human-centered design field work into an intuitive mobile web interface. You will work in a collaborative environment to create visual interactive prototypes for usability testing and for our developers to implement. You will help conduct and process user feedback into features and interfaces that empower community health workers through mobile technology. At Medic, creative solutions to complex problems are the norm. We work in environments with extreme constraints and are inspired by how technology can bridge gaps and reinvent workflows. We’re also a team of realists and shape our tools based on what is most useful and sustainable for our users and partners. Some of our users have never used a touchscreen before; others have several of their own devices. Many of our users work in low-connectivity environments. As an interaction designer, you’ll be inspired to create intuitive interfaces to help health workers feel supported, informed, and connected to their peers, managers, and patients. You’ll be joining a distributed product team and should be comfortable working independently and collaborating in virtual space. We have service designers in Nairobi and Kathmandu to be close to our partners and users, product managers in San Francisco and Toronto, and developers in many time zones to provide round-the-clock support. As interaction designer, you will report to Medic’s Chief Design Officer based in San Francisco. -- www.isaacholeman.org Twitter @isaacholeman My TEDx talk: http://bit.ly/1mzlh3z ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
[change] Co-Design Across Borders: Join our discussion group at CHI in Denver!
Hi Change list, I'll be co-hosting a discussion of co-designing across borders at CHI this year, on Monday May 8th at 11:30 am. We'd be thrilled to have you join us, more info about the conversation below: In recent years the evolving practice of co-design has continued to shift the roles of designers, researchers and the collection of partners formerly known as users. Most co-design studies have taken place in European and North American workplaces, but a growing community of researchers is pursuing this work "across borders." The greatly varied contexts of such work present distinctive challenges related to culture, power, language, etc. This SIG will convene co-design practitioners and researchers to discuss these challenges. Through attention to methods, tools and values in co-design, we will consider how co-design is traveling to new scenes around the world. We aim to form new relationships, develop themes of common interest, foster collaborations and build research infrastructure for this rapidly growing community. Organizers: Isaac Holeman, Edwin Blake, Melissa Densmore, ‘Maletšabisa Molapo, Fiona Ssozi, Elizabeth Goodman, Indrani Medhi Thies and Susan Wyche See our entry in the CHI program: http://bit.ly/2q87yG2 We'll also be at the HCIxBorders Symposium <http://www.hcixb.org/> on May 6th-7th, see our extended abstract here: http://bit.ly/2q8fM0V -- Isaac Holeman www.isaacholeman.org Twitter @isaacholeman My TEDx talk: http://bit.ly/1mzlh3z ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
[change] Medic Mobile is hiring a Senior Researcher! Open source, human-centered design & global health
Hi Change List, Medic Mobile is looking to hire a Senior Researcher! If you know someone who might be interested, I’d appreciate it if you would forward this message. Details below. Cheers,Isaac Senior Researcher Job PostingMedic Mobile (MM) designs, delivers, and supports software for health workers providing care in the hardest-to-reach communities. We envision a world where community health workers (CHWs) are supported as they provide care for their neighbors. MM and our partners have proven that high-quality care can be provided through integrated, community-based health systems. Our software is free, open-source, and deployed at scale in the last mile of healthcare. At the end of 2017, Medic Mobile was supporting a network of more than 20,000 frontline health workers; we aim to support health workers serving 100 million people between 2017 and 2021. We are seeking a Senior Researcher to lead key in-house studies and coordinate strategic research partnerships with University-based labs and other institutions. This role calls for demonstrated research skills, a high technical aptitude and the ability to conceptualize and execute studies of strategic significance for Medic Mobile and for our mission of global health equity. Our research archive includes more than 50 publications, including 32 peer-reviewed articles and a range of technical reports and white papers. The Senior Researcher will report to Medic Mobile co-founder and Research Lead Isaac Holeman. This role is location-flexible and may entail up to 30% travel to research sites; preference may be given to candidates co-located with Medic Mobile staff in Seattle, San Francisco, Nairobi or Kathmandu. We are already reviewing applications and the position will remain open until it is filled. More about research at Medic Mobile: http://medicmobile.org/research-impact-reportsThe full job posting: http://medicmobile.org/careers Isaac Holeman, PhDMedic Mobile co-founder & research leadTwitter @Medic @isaacholeman ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
