Healthredesigned

Today’s guest is Ali Namdari. He is the co-founder and product designer at MedPics. This is an app that allows healthcare professionals to share clinical cases and get advice from their peers. It is being used by over 30,000 users including doctors, nurses, medical assistants, and students in France. MedPics was inspired by a doctor that Ali knew who worked in an emergency room. She would take pictures of interesting cases and share them with her peers. This resulted in a long and unruly email feed. They also experimented with creating a LinkedIn format for chat and photo sharing. Ali and his co-founder eventually created a simple Instagram-like version that evolved into MedPics. Episode Highlights: It took about 5 or 6 months after Ali and his co-founder partnered with a student to get the first iteration of their app created. They now have a full-fledged branded app. Design challenges they have faced included working and testing remotely. Designing for medical users was also a design challenge. Ali also us