Master Healthcare User Experience Design

Learn how to create clear, trusted, and impactful healthcare tools with real-world UX skills. Build your portfolio and improve care through design.

Taught by experienced designers and educators from Mayo Clinic, Epic Systems, and the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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Who We Designed This For

Healthcare needs more human-centered design and UX professionals to transform patient and provider experiences. As digital health grows, those with healthcare UX skills are uniquely positioned to make real impact and lead the change.

  • Designers, students, recent grads, or cross-disciplinary professionals exploring healthcare UX

  • UX professionals seeking meaningful, portfolio-worthy projects

  • Clinicians curious about transitioning into digital health

  • Technologists eager to build user-centered health solutions

  • Anyone ready to make a real impact in healthcare through the design thinking process

Course Outline

This is how the course is organized and what each phase will teach you.

  1. Overview of Healthcare User Experience Design: 1-2 Hours

  2. Phase 1: RETHINK – Understand the Care Context: 2-4 Hours

  3. Phase 2: REDEFINE – Patient-Centered Frameworks & Methods: 2-4 Hours

  4. Phase 3: REDESIGN – Design and Prototype Care Systems: 6-8 Hours

  5. Phase 4: REVISION – Pilot and Measure Your Prototype: 2-4 Hours

  6. Phase 5: REFINE – Iterate Based on Testing: 2-3 Hours

About this course

  • 4-6 weeks (self-driven)
    Total time required to complete the course 30-40 Hours.
  • Includes a portfolio-ready project
  • Co-Developed by experienced healthcare professionals and academic faculty from Mayo Clinic, Epic Systems, and University of Wisconsin–Stout.

What Students Are Saying

“I loved the course, it's an important one for the UI/UX community. The user-centered focus is just what the healthcare industry needs right now, more than ever. This course is a great introduction to the domain!”

Aishwarya C, PhD — Mental Health Tech Researcher & Designer

“I really appreciated the clear, step-by-step structure of the course. The sections on healthcare regulations and context were especially valuable, and the focus on presentation skills was directly useful for engaging stakeholders in my work!”

Yue You, PhD — Recent Graduate From Penn State University

What You'll Learn

A self-paced, project-based course built to help you break into healthcare UX—with real-world skills that sets you apart.

  • Real-World UX Skills

    Learn methods used by designers at Epic, Mayo Clinic, and health tech startups—adapted to real clinical constraints.

  • Self-Paced, Portfolio-Ready

    Work at your own pace as you build a realistic healthcare UX case study you can actually show to employers.

  • Specialize. Stand Out. Shape Healthcare.

    Break out of generic bootcamp projects with a course that helps you specialize, stand out, and speak the language of healthcare.

Meet Your Instructors

You’ll learn from designers and educators with deep experience in healthcare, UX, and AI.

Michael Cawcutt

Primary Instructor

Michael Cawcutt is a Senior Product Director with over 20 years of experience transforming complex healthcare and enterprise systems into intuitive, human-centered experiences. He holds a Master’s degree in User Experience and has led design and product strategy for leading healthcare organizations including Mayo Clinic, Nebraska Medicine, and Optum. As the co-founder of FosterHealth Institute, Michael brings his expertise in UX design, research, and digital strategy to empower professionals and teams to create healthcare solutions that improve patient outcomes and streamline clinical workflows. His work bridges clinical insight and design innovation, helping organizations move from theory to real-world impact.

Nagesh Shinde

Primary Instructor

Nagesh is a design leader and educator with deep roots in brand and experience design. He’s worked with global agencies like Wunderman Thompson and Leo Burnett, and brand design manager at Cardean Learning Group, collaborating with pioneers like Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen. As a professor of Design at UW-Stout, he guides industry-sponsored projects with GNC, 3M, Target, and Adobe, bringing real-world rigor to human-centered design education.

Josh Canale

Primary Instructor

Josh is a UX strategist and designer with deep experience in healthcare, AI, and complex systems. At Epic, he led the design of AI-powered tools used across 80+ clinical applications, helping teams scale intelligent experiences in high-stakes care settings. Now, he works with AI startups and health organizations to design products that are explainable, trustworthy, and actually usable. At Foster Health Institute, he focuses on making advanced UX skills accessible to the next generation of designers breaking into healthcare.

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Start building the skills and portfolio that get you noticed in healthcare UX.

The industry needs designers who understand care.
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