Cynthia Kossayan is a design researcher who draws on her background in sociology and architecture to understand relationships between people and products. Her three years at Karten Design have taken her into hospitals, clinical testing sites, bathrooms, living rooms, kitchens, offices and clean room manufacturing facilities, where she’s studied people in the contexts of their everyday lives to drive new product and business solutions for companies like Kohler, CareFusion and Samsung. Kossayan is involved in every phase of research, from developing strategies that meet program objectives to collecting, analyzing and synthesizing data into insights that drive innovation. She holds a degree in sociology from UCLA.
Track:
Medical + Health Design
Session Title:
Making Design Research Actionable for Health-Care Products
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