We designhealthcareinnovationspeople loveto use.

Lizz digital companion and HappyPlant app, connected through listening, co-design and refinement

We turn healthcare research into interactions people love to use. Your hands-on partner for human-centered research, design and development.

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01 / Why we do it

Better technology starts with
the people who needs it most.

We design with people to make everyday care more accessible, personal and connected. Their needs shape what we build, from the first question to real-world use.

RehabilitationDementia careInclusive healthcareHealth in adolescencePatient empowerment

02 / Selected work

Small interactions.
Meaningful change.

From a companion at home to a better conversation in the consulting room. Our work connects research, design and technology to everyday care.

01LIZZ.HEALTHDigital companion / Care transitions

FROM RESEARCH
TO EVERYDAY CARE

Care that
stays close.

Lizz supports daily routines, rehabilitation and check-ins between care moments. We bring user research, conversational design and software development together in one digital companion.

2hospitals in the randomized trial

100+participants in the trial

Research in progress: Lizz-TRANSCARE evaluates care transitions in a randomized trial across two hospitals with 100+ participants. The RCT studies clinical effectiveness of the new Lizz product.

02SMARTCHANGE / HAPPYPLANTBehavior change / Horizon Europe

Healthy habits.
A little more joy.

HappyPlant turns young people’s activity and health goals into a growing virtual plant. Within SmartCHANGE, we combine co-design, behavior-change interaction and mobile development.

Young people with two phones showing the HappyPlant app: adopting a virtual plant and the garden checklist

500+users testing the experience

5countries involved in testing

Learning in real life: Field testing with 500+ users across five countries informs how the experience fits different routines and settings.

03PATIENT-IN-THE-LOOP AIResearch collaboration / Oncology

The right explanation.
At the right moment.

What would an ideal patient journey look like if understandable AI and a person's own priorities were part of every important conversation?

With Radboud University and Radboudumc, we explore new interaction concepts for explainable AI and shared decision-making in oncology. This includes our involvement in the ELSA collaboration and the SIDN-supported Responsible AI for Clinical Decision Support project.

We connect patient-journey research, inclusive service design and new explanation interfaces with patient-facing companions and professional workflows. Quality of life, independence and what matters to the patient guide the questions we explore.

Radboud University + Radboudumc
ELSA / SIDN-supported research

Before the consultation

What matters most in my everyday life?

Elicit priorities, questions and support needs.

Design approachable conversations and check-ins, with low-burden input and support for people with different levels of digital confidence.

LEARN. ADAPT. REVISIT WHAT MATTERS.

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03 / What we do

We love design
explorations.

Research, design, build, learn. One team takes your question from early exploration to a working solution, with feedback shaping every step.

01 / UNDERSTAND

Research

Understand people, routines and barriers in everyday care.

02 / CO-DESIGN

Design

Co-design accessible conversations, interfaces and services.

03 / PROTOTYPE & BUILD

Develop

Build software and prototypes people can actually try.

04 / EVALUATE & LEARN

Evaluate

Test in context and use the findings to improve.

From insight to implementation

Conversational AI & Dialogue.
Designed around people.

We design and develop conversational AI for healthcare: dialogue flows, digital companions and interactions that fit the needs of patients and care professionals. Our work combines conversation design, software development and evaluation with users.

Conversational UXApps & integration

Explainable AI.
Open to questions.

In explainable AI, we focus on human–computer interaction: helping people understand, question and discuss AI-supported information. We work with research partners who develop and validate the underlying models.

Human-centered AIReal-world evaluation

Business development is not a ‘side activity’ at the end of the project. It’s an integral part of innovation. That’s why our business developers are involved from the first project ideas, all the way to implementation and scale up.

We are experienced project coordinators. We successfully coordinated European research consortia and national innovation projects – bringing together academia, research organization, companies and healthcare organizations.

04 / Human-centered technology

A conversational head start.
Not a black box.

Technology should support human connection and keep people in control. We help develop Dialogue Branch, the open-source framework for conversation logic that teams can inspect, adapt and reuse. Our own digital companions are built on it.

Reusable where possible. Accessible by design. Built with privacy and human support in mind.

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