Healthredesigned

Welcome to the Health Redesigned podcast by Hanno. We invite changemakers in health and wellness to share their stories about how they're using design and technology to build life-changing digital products. My name is Laila and my guest today is Pieter Doevendans. He is the co-founder of Ava, a startup based in San Francisco with a mission to empower deaf and hard of hearing people with total accessibility. Ava has created an app that transcribes what people say into text messages, making it easier for deaf and hard of hearing people understand conversations and communicate with others. In this episode, Pieter shares his co-founders story of growing up in a deaf family, the difference between deaf and hard of hearing people, some of the early attempts and challenges of designing their app, and much more. Episode Highlights: Pieter shares the mission of Ava and how there was a gap in solving the communication issues of group conversations. The story of Thibault and his deaf family, and how he is culturally de