Prototyping Built for Healthcare Complexity
Prototyping Built for Healthcare Complexity
"Move fast and break things" doesn’t apply when lives are on the line and regulators are ready to make an example of any team playing fast and loose with compliance.
At Koru, our award-winning UX designers specialize in helping you to prototype quickly without compromising safety, clarity or trust. From early sketches to high-fidelity simulations, we enable rapid iteration that meets clinical, operational and regulatory demands.
The Fastest Way to
Find Out If It Works
This is where your idea becomes real enough for teams to test, react to and rally behind.
Prototyping turns abstract concepts into interactive experiences that help answer the question: Does this idea have merit?
We build prototypes that:
- Simulate real workflows across patient, clinician and admin roles
- Help teams align across clinical, compliance, and product perspectives
- Surface usability gaps before you commit to build
- Win internal support with something stakeholders can see and understand
- Reduce rework by making decisions visible, testable and shared
Whether it’s a quick sketch or a detailed simulation, this is where ideas start
gaining traction… and the right ones move forward, faster.
Our Rapid Prototyping Methodology
Prototyping isn’t just about speed, it’s about making better decisions, earlier.
Just as an architect crafts a blueprint before breaking ground, we use prototyping to explore structure, flow and usability before writing a single line of code. It removes guesswork, reduces friction and turns ideas into usable, testable experiences with minimal delay.
How We Use AI
(And Where We Don’t)
You might be wondering: how is this any different from feeding an idea into one of the many AI design tools on the market today?
Fair question. We’ve tested dozens of AI tools, deeply. We’ve seen where they help and where they fall short. And we’ve built a process that uses them with intention, not overreach.
Here’s how we use AI and where we draw the line…
Where AI helps:
- Applying established heuristics for usability and layout
- Speeding up low-stakes UI decisions (labels, spacing, flows)
- Generating layout or flow variants quickly for early exploration
- Turning abstract ideas into tangible starting points
- Spotting UI inconsistencies and missing states
- Structuring basic design systems or token sets
- Summarizing research findings or drafting baseline copy
- Synthesizing edge cases from documented user flows
- Automating repetitive tasks in prototyping or documentation
- Helping teams pressure-test ideas before committing to build
Where AI falls short:
- Understanding the nuance of your product, users and environment
- Making design trade-offs in regulated or high-stakes settings
- Creating clarity from complexity, without guidance
- Replacing the creative and critical thinking that great design demands
- Truly understanding user centricity, not just mirroring personas
- Developing unique mechanisms or differentiated workflows
- Deciding what to leave out, what not to build, what to strip back
- Applying ethical or emotional judgment in sensitive contexts
- Prioritizing under pressure, across conflicting stakeholder needs
- Aligning design decisions with long-term business strategy
We use AI to support thoughtful design, not replace it.
It helps us move faster, but never at the cost of depth or direction.
And no one is more obsessed with getting that balance right than we are.
Because in healthcare, trust isn't something you can automate.
Rapid Prototyping,
Done Right
We’ve collaborated on over 1,500 complex technology projects, helping healthcare teams around the world make digital interactions more intuitive, efficient and human.
With every prototype, our goal is the same: to bring clarity to complexity, to test ideas before they become expensive mistakes, and to move faster without compromising safety, trust, or usability.
Whether you’re redesigning legacy workflows, launching something new, or exploring how AI fits into your product strategy, we can help you make it real, fast.
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Why Teams Trust Koru
Proven healthcare UX experience across payer, provider and enterprise platforms
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Seamless collaboration with your product, engineering, and compliance teams
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Partner to the world’s largest cloud-based EHR
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AI-accelerated workflows that reduce design time without lowering quality
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Prototyping processes tailored for regulated, legacy-rich environments
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Modular design systems with governance baked in, not bolted on.
What’s Next?
If you're working on a legacy redesign, a new product concept or an AI-powered experience, rapid prototyping can give you a fast track to clarity and confidence.
Let’s explore how we can help you turn complex ideas into validated, high-trust digital experiences.
