Reframing health to embrace design of our own well-being

Editor's Note: Improving healthcare is a wicked problem [1]. Healthcare's many stakeholders can't agree on a solution, because they don't agree on the problem. They come to the discussion from different points of view, with different frames. Wicked problems can be "solved" only by reframing, by providing a new way of understanding the problem that stakeholders can share [1]. This article describes a growing trend: framing health in terms of well-being and broadening healthcare to include self-management. Self-management reframes patients as designers, an example of a shift also occurring in design practice---reframing users as designers. The article concludes with thoughts on what these changes may mean when designing for health.---Hugh Dubberly