UX Healthcare

21/07/2026

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06/07/2026

*Speaker Announcement | UX Healthcare 2026 Rotterdam*

The lineup keeps getting stronger — and we couldn't be more proud to introduce our next wave of speakers for UX Healthcare 2026.
Meet the three voices joining us on stage this September:
Dr. Michaela Kauer-Franz — Founder & CEO, Custom Interactions GmbH
A pioneer at the intersection of design science and healthcare innovation. Michaela brings the rare combination of doctoral rigour and entrepreneurial ex*****on — exactly what this industry needs more of.
Atike Pekel — Lead Designer, Philips Experience Design
Designing healthcare experiences at one of the world's most recognized medtech brands. Atike brings frontline insight into what it actually takes to ship design at scale in complex health systems.
So Heum Hwang — Senior Product Designer, Scarlet
Bringing a sharp, human-centred perspective from the startup world — where constraints force creativity and every design decision has to count.

Why should you be in the room?
Because healthcare UX is no longer a niche — it's a discipline that directly affects patient outcomes, clinical efficiency, and system sustainability. This conference is where researchers, practitioners, and leaders come together to move the needle.
Whether you're designing your first patient-facing product or leading a design team inside a health system, UX Healthcare 2026 gives you the frameworks, connections, and inspiration to do your best work.
📅 17–18 September 2026
📍 Kadans Science Tower, Rotterdam, Netherlands
🎟️ Early bird pricing closes in 7 days — register now at uxhealthcare.co
Because better user experience can save lives. 💙

02/07/2026

UX Healthcare Rotterdam is shaping up nicely.
We're building a programme around people doing genuinely meaningful work in healthcare design — and these three are a great example of exactly that.

Joining us on 17–18 September:
Dian Wessels — Director of Design, myTomorrows
Giorgia Sassi — Designer, buildo
Sara Bianchini — Designer, buildo

Two days. Real conversations. A room full of people who care about making healthcare work better for the humans inside it.

Tickets at uxhealthcare.co — see you in Rotterdam.

23/06/2026

*UX Healthcare 2026 Rotterdam Conference*— Speakers Announced!
Two impactful days dedicated to exploring how design can improve healthcare for patients, clinicians, and systems. We're thrilled to welcome three brilliant minds to the stage:

🔹 Karin Bogdanova — PhD Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction
🔹 Natalie Fitak — Head of Product Design & Research
🔹 Joanna Żaboklicka — Principal Product Designer
Together, they bring a powerful mix of academic research and real-world product leadership to the conversation on healthcare UX — exactly the kind of cross-disciplinary insight this industry needs.

📅 17–18 September 2026
📍 Kadans Science Tower, Marconistraat 16, 3029 AK Rotterdam, Netherlands
⏰ Early bird pricing closes in 7 days — don't miss your chance to save on tickets.

Because better user experience can save lives. 💙
👉 Secure your spot at www.uxhealthcare.co

15/06/2026

This September, UX Healthcare returns to Rotterdam for two days dedicated to the future of healthcare through design, innovation, and human-centred thinking.

Since launching our first conference in London, UK in 2018, UX Healthcare has grown into a global platform connecting the people shaping tomorrow’s healthcare experiences — from UX leaders and clinicians to digital health innovators, researchers, product teams, and decision-makers.

Join us in Rotterdam to explore the ideas, technologies, and design practices transforming patient and clinician experiences across the world.

Expect:

✓ Inspiring keynote talks from industry leaders
✓ Real-world healthcare UX case studies
✓ Conversations on AI, digital health & patient experience
✓ Interactive workshops and panels
✓ High-value networking with healthcare and product leaders

For attendees, this is an opportunity to gain practical insight, build meaningful connections, and stay ahead in one of healthcare’s fastest-growing disciplines.

For sponsors, UX Healthcare offers direct access to a highly engaged audience of professionals influencing healthcare products, services, and patient outcomes. Position your brand alongside the conversations shaping the future of healthcare and connect with decision-makers across healthcare, MedTech, and digital innovation.

Sponsorship opportunities are limited.

🎟️ Secure your ticket
🤝 Explore sponsorship opportunities
🌐 www.uxhealthcare.co

📍 Rotterdam
📅 17–18 September 2026

05/06/2026

*Early Bird Registration Limited* UX Healthcare Berlin 2026 is unlike anything we've done before. 7-8th October

Here's what's new 👇
DAY 1 — Workshop Day: Two hands-on workshops. 3–4 hours each. Small teams. Real problems. Tangible outputs.
→ Workshop A: Proposal to be determined.
→ Workshop B: Built to Last: The Human Work Behind a Living Journey in Healthcare. A four-condition framework, home, trigger, owner, job, for making sure the research you’ve already done keeps mattering: where it lives, who owns it, what keeps it current, and which real decision it feeds.
No spectating. No passive listening. Just doing.

DAY 2 — Keynote Day. World-class speakers. Big, provocative ideas. Full community energy. Each talk 30-40 minutes.
Full day keynotes from clinicians, designers, and innovators who are actively reshaping the healthcare experience. Afternoon lightning talks and open networking — followed by the UX Healthcare after-party.

Since 2018, UX Healthcare has brought together healthcare professionals, UX designers, and researchers from Amsterdam to Sydney, San Francisco to Berlin. We've always believed one thing:
"Better User experience can save lives."
Berlin 2026 is where we prove it — together.
📍 Berlin, Germany www.uxhealthcare.co
🎟 Early Bird registration closing soon.

13/05/2026

We're back. And so is the conversation. It's been a while since we landed in your inbox. A lot has been happening in the world of healthcare UX — and we're heading into the second half of the year with two events we're genuinely excited about.

A QUICK WORD
We've been heads-down. Planning, connecting, and spending time with the design community in ways that don't always make it onto social media. But we've missed this — the newsletter, the conversation, the chance to share what's on our minds.

Healthcare UX sits at a genuinely strange and fascinating crossroads right now. Clinicians are burning out. AI is being dropped into workflows that weren't designed to absorb it. And patients are navigating digital health tools that were built for institutions, not for people. The design decisions being made today are going to shape how care is delivered for the next decade. That's not hyperbole — that's just where we are.
So we keep doing what we do: bringing together the people who are actually working on these problems.

COMING UP
SEP 2025 UX Healthcare Rotterdam. www.uxhealthcare.co
A focused day of talks and working sessions exploring how design is reshaping patient-facing tools, clinical interfaces, and the systems connecting them. Rotterdam's health tech scene makes it the right room for this conversation.
Rotterdam, Netherlands

OCT 2025 UX Healthcare Berlin: Speakers to be announced shortly.
Berlin brings a different energy — a city that takes design seriously and has a growing healthcare innovation ecosystem to match. Expect candid conversations about where the industry is succeeding, and where it's still getting things badly wrong.
Berlin,

NOV 2025 UX Healthcare Singapore: Key areas include telemedicine, AI-driven products, and integrating services with national health records, often requiring multilingual interfaces and strict regulatory compliance

"We keep designing for the ideal user journey — but in healthcare, the ideal user journey is rarely what actually happens."

One of the recurring tensions we hear from healthcare UX practitioners is the gap between designed intent and lived reality. A nurse in a 12-hour shift isn't using your interface the way you prototyped it. An elderly patient navigating a patient portal after a frightening diagnosis isn't a persona — they're a person.
That gap is where the most important design work happens. And it rarely gets enough attention.

We'll be exploring this — and a lot more — across both events this year. Less polished case studies, more honest conversations about what's working and what isn't.

STAY IN THE LOOP
Full programme details for Rotterdam available and Berlin are coming soon. If you want to be first to hear about speakers, themes, and tickets — just make sure you're on the list. Which, if you're reading this, you already are.
And if there's something you'd love to see covered at either event — a topic, a challenge you're facing in your own work — hit reply. We actually read them.

UX Healthcare is a leading global Healthcare User experience Design Consultancy and Events Company that helps UX practitioners, clinicians and stakeholders improve the holistic patient experience.

25/03/2026

We’d like to share an important update regarding UX Healthcare Rotterdam.

Due to the ongoing geopolitical conflict, which has impacted the ability of several of our speakers and community members to travel, we have made the decision to postpone the event to 17–18 September 2026.

This was not an easy decision. Our priority has always been to create an inclusive, globally accessible platform for collaboration, and under the current circumstances, we believe this is the most responsible path forward.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and truly appreciate the understanding and continued support of our community.
We remain committed to delivering an exceptional event in September and look forward to bringing everyone together then.

06/03/2026

*Meet more of our speakers*

We are excited to announce two outstanding new speakers joining us in Rotterdam this April.

🎙️ Atike Pekel
Lead Designer – Experience Design, Philips
Atike’s work focuses on building design systems and experiences that support clinicians and improve patient outcomes at scale. At the conference, Atike will explore how experience design can bridge the gap between technology, clinical workflows, and patient needs, ensuring that innovation in healthcare truly serves the people who rely on it.

🎙️ Natalie Fitak
Product Design Lead
Natalie Fitak brings deep expertise in product design leadership and user-centered innovation. Her work focuses on designing systems that empower clinicians while improving patient journeys across complex healthcare environments.
At UX Healthcare Rotterdam, Natalie will share insights into how design thinking, product strategy, and user research can transform healthcare systems into more intuitive and human-centered experiences.

Why UX Healthcare Matters
Healthcare systems worldwide are becoming more complex. Poorly designed systems increase clinician burnout, create inefficiencies, and ultimately impact patient care. UX Healthcare brings together designers, clinicians, product leaders, and researchers to solve these challenges together.
Because better user experience can save lives.

🎟 Secure Your Seat
Rotterdam will host a limited-capacity audience to ensure meaningful discussions and networking.
Early registration is strongly recommended.
👉 Visit uxhealthcare.co to reserve your place.

03/03/2026

We’re excited to announce two more incredible speakers joining us at UX Healthcare 2026 – Rotterdam Conference on 8–9 April 2026 at the Kadans Science Tower.
And trust us… you’re going to want a seat for this.

🎙️ Soheum Hwang
Senior Product Designer, Scarlet
Soheum Hwang joins us with extensive experience in product design and healthcare innovation. Her work focuses on creating meaningful, user-centered solutions that bridge clinical complexity with human needs.
She’ll share how product thinking, systems design, and empathy intersect to create better healthcare experiences at scale.

🎙️ Dr Lizette Spangenberg, PhD
UX Researcher and Designer
Dr Lizette Spangenberg is a UX Researcher and Designer specialising in digital health and healthcare systems. She holds a PhD in Information Design, with research focused on human-centred design in clinical environments, and currently works on telehealth platforms that support both patients and clinicians.

📍 Rotterdam Is Filling Up Fast
Rotterdam has limited capacity this year to ensure meaningful connections and high-quality interaction. If you’ve been considering joining us, now is the time to secure your spot.
👉 Register early to avoid disappointment.

🌏 International Updates
We’re also thrilled to share that:
🇸🇬 Singapore registration is now open
🇩🇪 Berlin registration is now open
Our global UX Healthcare community continues to grow, and each city offers its own unique perspective on how design can improve care delivery.

UX Healthcare isn’t just another conference. It’s two focused, impactful days dedicated to improving healthcare for patients, clinicians, and systems through design. If you believe better user experience can save lives — you belong in this room.
We can’t wait to welcome you in Rotterdam (and beyond).