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Your company lacks the time and resources to develop product and service solutions for living well across the lifespan.
Your team is too close to the problem, causing them to lose their creative edge.
Your organization owns all intellectual property developed during the course of a studio project.
Your team has a short project timeline and needs fast product and service conceptualization.
University of Cincinnati students are vital to the Live Well Collaborative's success. The Live Well has worked with over a thousand students, each coming from different disciplines and providing different insights. This leads to unique professional experiences that help students further develop their skills.
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User research is just as important, if not more important, than developing products, so take time to clearly define the problems your stakeholders are facing and develop products that they want to use.
Live Well is full of designers from different experiences, backgrounds, and disciplines. Take the time to learn from them, and your work will be better for it!
New co-ops: come ready to learn and take this as an opportunity to really network with the clients on the projects! You may end up somewhere you never thought you would.
The thing I’m most surprised by at Live Well is how interdisciplinary it is. No matter their background or expertise, everyone here is willing to collaborate to solve a problem, even if it’s not for a project they’re on.
The Live Well Collaborative is the ideal environment for cross-collaborative, design-based research and learning. The positive culture elevates everyone who participates, and the innovative programmatic structure affords unprecedented opportunities for faculty, students, and co-ops to work collaboratively with principal investigators and sponsors across the academic, healthcare, and business communities. The unique structure at Live Well offers opportunities to bring scholars and students together from diverse backgrounds to address questions and challenges too complex for a single researcher or discipline.
“I feel extremely fortunate to have discovered the Live Well Collaborative. For the past ten years it has afforded me the opportunity to learn with and from students and colleagues in design, engineering, business, music, and healthcare as we work together to improve the pediatric cancer patient's experience.“
"The Live Well offers something rare: a high-quality and consistently dependable infrastructure for truly exceptional interdisciplinary collaboration to thrive. Working in this capacity over the past 10 years, I can say with confidence that the Live Well is the premier environment for consistently producing transformative, measurable, human-centered outcomes through its innovative academic-industry partnerships."
The framework of the Live Well is a new hybrid that integrates traditional project teams under a studio model, with the structure and titles more commonly found in research labs in engineering and the sciences. This model is part of the new framework that represents the processes evolving in corporations in research and development (R&D), as well as levels 3 and 4 of translational research. Both R&D and translational research models are attempting to integrate design thinking to increase scope and decrease cycle time from concept to solution.
Fellowship cycles run on academic calendars. Applications are ongoing.
The most important thing I’ve learned working at Live Well is to stay curious. Each project provides its own learning experiences, challenges, and possibilities, and we get to uncover each part of the problem presented.
Live Well's studio model and collaborative nature introduced me to the incredible breadth of applications of human-centered design across industries. A strong foundation in empathy is a trait that organizations value, no matter where your career takes you.
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