Dennis Boyle, MSc

Dennis Boyle is a partner and a founding team member of IDEO. Dennis helps guide the Design for Health Studio at IDEO as part of its San Francisco office. Design for Health is the part of IDEO’s business that works with clients in medical and health-related industries to develop innovative physical and digital products, software, services, and strategies.

Over the course of his IDEO career, Boyle has helped build and nurture many key long-term client relationships, including Silicon Valley tech firms, Fortune 100 consumer businesses, and healthcare companies. He has been named on fifty-five patents.

Boyle is also an adjunct professor at Stanford’s d.school and in the Design Division of the engineering school, where he has taught courses for over forty years. He established and co-teaches “Design for Healthy Behaviors” at the d.school. The course draws students from each of the university’s graduate schools. Students in this class learn and use the design thinking process to help patient volunteers with chronic conditions build healthy behaviors and thrive in their daily lives.

Boyle earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, with an emphasis on Industrial Design, from the University of Notre Dame and an MSc in Product Design from Stanford.

He enjoys running, road and mountain biking, and other outdoor sports and can often be seen on the track, on the road, and on the trail trying to keep up with younger friends.