Matthew Higham
Partner GLOBALLeverages design as a tool for healthcare transformation, partnering with organizations to build systems that translate needs into excellent products and experiences.
With decades of experience in healthcare innovation, we're pushing boundaries to design solutions that are as compassionate as they are groundbreaking. Find out how design can set you apart, help you grow, and solve your toughest challenges.
Discover how we're partnering with organizations to reimagine patient care, optimize digital health, and build systems that truly prioritize people. Together, we can create a healthcare landscape that's not just better, but profoundly more human.

Teal Health creates a system for at-home cervical cancer screening.
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Collaborating with the startup team at Willow that reimagined the breast pumping experience.
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Hint: It's always prototyping.

Designing a complicated device that's affordable and transportable.
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How a decades-long collaboration with Eli Lilly has transformed patients' lives and health outcomes.
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Launching a nationwide venture that redefines and simplifies how customers engage with their pharmacy.
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Designing for caregivers to create world-class care for patients.
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Somni's personalized sleep program helps workers maintain their health.
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Massachusetts puts families at the heart of mental health.
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Omada Health grows from an IDEO research project to a $1 billion company fighting chronic disease.
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Kooth partners with young people to create Soluna, a mental health resource for California youth.
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Together Senior Health provides digital solutions to combat cognitive decline.
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Enabling doctors to spend less time on paperwork and more on patient care.
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Designing innovative, patient-centered experiences for a healthcare pioneer.
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Moderna defines its Mindsets to preserve its future.
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Improving digital tools to help practitioners deliver critical mental health support to children and young people.
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But it always starts with asking the right questions.
Leverages design as a tool for healthcare transformation, partnering with organizations to build systems that translate needs into excellent products and experiences.
Helps clients develop innovative offerings and explores how emerging technologies reimagine human experiences and relationships.

Leads London's Health Practice with 20+ years in design research and innovation across healthcare, consumer experience, and organizational transformation.

Partners with health organizations to design innovation portfolios and cultivate capabilities across pharma and care systems.

Leads product launches across drug delivery devices, vascular access products, surgical tools, and consumer goods. At IDEO since 2000.

Leads Chicago's health portfolio covering medical devices, patient and provider experiences, adherence, equity, and digital tools.

Leads healthcare portfolio specializing in digital products and emerging technologies, applying human-centered design for wellbeing.
Whether you're rethinking patient care, building the next breakthrough in digital health, or transforming a system from the inside out — we'd love to make it with you.