Kintsugi Design

Day 2 of featured Nordic Women's Health Hub take the stage on a ship where my two of my co-founders Malene and Sara introduced how our work in women's health addresses systemic change.

It's exciting and exhausting to be at - exciting because we're ( ) here to speak about women's health and exhausting because this is not a place to be on crutches! Lots of cobblestone and hills! 😅 But luckily I have the best co founders ever, and who are walking very, very slowly with me and stopping often to have important discussions about the future of women's health.

By the time a product enters someone’s body, bedroom, bathroom, clinic, or daily routine, the design challenge is no longer just technical. It becomes emotional, ethical, and relational, because the product is asking someone to trust it with information, sensations, patterns, fears, habits, and decisions that may feel deeply personal.

That is what interests me most in femtech hardware: not only whether a device works, but what kind of relationship it creates with the person using it. What does it ask them to notice? What does it ask them to reveal? What does it ask them to track, interpret, trust, or change about their life?

I’m exploring these questions while writing Designing Femtech, my upcoming book on femtech hardware, meaningful technology, and the future of women’s health.

Follow along on Substack: designingfemtech.com

One thing I'm pondering while writing my book is how we relate to technology, especially when it comes to our health. A tracker, device, diagnostic tool, or app can change how we notice our bodies, how we interpret symptoms, how much control we feel, and when reassurance becomes anxiety.

That emotional layer is easy to overlook, but it is central to whether technology feels supportive, invasive, empowering, or exhausting.

This is one of the questions shaping my work in meaningful women’s health technology. While I'm writing, I'm reading, getting inspiration and education about women's health.

DM me READING and I’ll send you the Designing Femtech Reading List.

The emotional experience of technology matters more than we admit.

Especially in women's health.

We tend to evaluate technologies based on efficiency, accuracy, outcomes, or compliance rates. But people also develop emotional relationships with the systems and devices they live with every day.

Some technologies feel calming, or demanding and others reshape how people relate to their bodies, time, identity, or sense of control.

I think this is one of the most overlooked design questions in women’s health and future care.

Currently researching and writing about meaningful technology for my upcoming book Designing Femtech.

More thoughts through my Substack linked in bio.

Healthcare is also a design problem.

Breaking my leg has made that impossible to ignore.

You suddenly notice everything:
🫴🏼 the distance to sit down, and stand up!
🫴🏼 the weight of a door which swings shut as you're trying to open it,
🫴🏼 the timing of toilet trips,
🫴🏼 the emotional exhaustion of navigating systems when your body is struggling.

And I'm grateful for things like beach side parking and a bench so I can wobble a few steps and sit down to enjoy a view and get some fresh air.

Accessibility isn’t just about ramps or regulations.
It’s also about dignity, energy, emotion, and whether systems feel supportive when life becomes harder.

I think we underestimate how much design shapes the experience of being human.

Currently thinking and writing about meaningful technology, women’s health, and the future of care while working on my book, Designing Femtech.

You can follow along through my Substack linked in bio.

While I’m healing, I’m building.

Menopause is having a tech revolution and most people haven’t seen the landscape yet.

Wearables. Cooling tech. Pelvic floor devices. Hormone tracking. AI. Sleep tech. Vaginal health. Digital therapeutics. There is so much happening in women’s health right now.

So I’m building a new webinar exploring:
• what’s out there
• what actually works
• what’s emerging
• and where the biggest opportunities still are

For healthcare providers, founders, innovators, investors, and anyone navigating menopause themselves.

Because women deserve better tools for this stage of life.

Interested in the webinar or bringing it to your organization/event? Send me a message.

Still wrapping my head around the fact that I’m heading to Shanghai this June to speak at the Global Women’s Health Innovation China Programme 2026.

I’ll be speaking about women’s health innovation, meaningful technology, ecosystem building, and designing beyond functionality to consider lived experience, identity, and human behaviour.

What excites me most is the international exchange. China and the Nordics bring very different strengths to healthcare innovation, and I’m looking forward to the conversations that emerge when those perspectives meet.

Also, I’ve wanted to visit Shanghai for years.
Very grateful for the invitation from and proud to represent both my own work and