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C L O S I NG KEY N O T E: UNM I S TA KAB LY C R EAT IV E -
E L E M E NT S T HAT F O ST ER
IN S P I R ING AN D ENG AG IN G E X P ERIENC ES,
2 : 3 0 P. M. , T U E SD AY, N O V. 1 4
Srinivas Rao, author
of "Unmistakable:
Why Only is Better
than Best" and host
and founder of The
Unmistakable Podcast
even have to put your signature on it. This is
taste, hear, and touch is an environment.
meaningful because we live in an incredibly
And those environments are either add-
noisy world, and you have to be distinctive if
ing energy or draining energy. They're
you're going to cut through the noise.
either inspiring you or expiring you." If
What was your original goal when
launching your podcast The
Unmistakable Creative, and what
have you learned after more
than 600 interviews since then?
you look at the overall environment of
something like a hospital, it says loud
and clear: "You're here because you're
sick." The lighting is sterile and it seems
like a place that you're trapped in more
than a place you go to heal. I think
It honestly started by accident. Ironi-
there's a huge opportunity to design an
cally, I started a blog to help me land
environment that actually inspires heal-
a job, and as part of the blog I started
a podcast. In 600 interviews, I've gotten
ing and health as opposed to one that
reinforces sickness.
a world-class education on what causes
Healthcare Design: From business
school graduate to surfer, your
personal experiences have shaped
your perspective. What would you
want our audience to know about
your story and how you got to be
where you are today?
people to achieve personal excellence in
nearly every area of their lives.
Srinivas Rao: I would say it's largely the
When considering branding, storytelling,
and marketing, what are common
mistakes you see made, and what are
some of the most successful/creative
ways you've seen to avoid them?
result of a life that hasn't gone according
The most common mistake that I see over and
to plan. When I started college in 1996,
over is the tendency to look at what someone
I was convinced that I was destined to
else has done successfully and attempt to
be some sort of business executive with
copy that thing or create your own version
a corner office. But I graduated into two
of that thing. One way to avoid this is to trust
recessions, the first in 2000 right after the
your own instinct and intuition. Another is to
dot-com bubble burst and the second in
look outside of your industry for ideas and
2009 after the financial crisis. To add to
inspiration.
this, I'd been fired from most of the jobs
Where do you think there's room for
improvement in healthcare overall?
In my personal experience, the treatment
I've received often feels cold and like I'm
a number on a list. Rather than treating
patients like patients, they should be
treated as customers who are buying a
product or service.
In your presentation, you promise
to teach attendees how to design
engaging experiences that aren't
only distinctive but will make the
notion of competition irrelevant. Can
you give us a hint of one approach to
achieving this?
A few years ago, our team at Unmistak-
a life based on other people's expectations
Patient experience is becoming
increasingly important in healthcare.
Why do you think experience holds so
much weight today, and where do you
see opportunities for design to play a
role in improving it?
but had rarely thought about my own. After
For decades, we've had somewhat of a pas-
posters of our speakers, and we opened
about nine years of work, that resulted in a
sive consumption model in just about every
the event with a theatrical trailer. It made
career as an author and speaker.
area of our lives-from education to com-
the experience much more engaging.
I'd ever had. With nothing but time on
my hands, I became a surfer. And surfing
turned out be a really powerful way to do
some soul searching about what I wanted
to do with my life. I realized I'd been living
able Creative planned a conference. The
one thing we didn't do was look at how
conferences were planned. Instead we
looked at our favorite art forms like movies, music, and theater and borrowed elements from each of those. We made movie
merce. But now you've got a world in which
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How do you define "unmistakable,"
a word that appears in much of your
professional work product? Why is it
so meaningful?
our attention spans are getting shorter, and
terior designers, architects, and engineers, I
What would you hope this audience
will take away from your talk
to share with design peers and
healthcare organizations?
I define unmistakable as something that
see an opportunity to deliberately contribute
I hope that they won't see best practices
nobody else could have done but you,
to shape an environment.
and tradition as a reason to keep doing
what we remember, what we value, tends to
be emotionally engaging experiences. For in-
something so distinctive that it's immedi-
One of our guests on The Unmistakable
ately recognized as your work. You don't
Creative said, "Everything you see, smell,
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Healthcare Design - November 2017
Healthcare Design - November 2017
Contents
Editorial
From the Publisher
Show Talk
Photo Tour
Photo Tour
Maine Stage
Preserving an Icon
Magic Moment
Time to Shine
All Together Now
Operations Delivering a New Experience
Engineering Lessons From Rwanda
Product Spotlight Outdoor Furniture
The Center
Aia-Aah
Project Watch
Product Gallery
Face Time
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Healthcare Design - November 2017 - From the Publisher
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Healthcare Design - November 2017 - Product Spotlight Outdoor Furniture
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