Multitasking at its worst. Fortunately, I happen to have excellent resources at my disposal, including Slack, which keeps me in several loops with my co-workers who are, presumably, enjoying lunch together and discussing the recent news of teehanlax.com closing.
Topics: Business of Design
You need a joint replacement. Or your dad had a stroke. Or your six-year-old was just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
Can you expect your care team to provide information that will help you to understand your condition? How will you know if something is wrong and you should seek help? How do you know what to ask your loved one's caregiver? What do other people do in your situation?
It’s well known that patients stay healthier when they are informed. Health literacy is key; if you are not able to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services, you will be ill-equipped to make decisions regarding your own or the health of your loved ones.
Patient education plays an important role in a number of Involution designs. Here are a few resources we’ve found.
Illustration: Leslie Laurien, MSMI
The American Medical Association (AMA) has been a leader in addressing health literacy and patient safety and offer a number of health literacy educational tools.
One feature of this guide that we really like is that the first page, even before the Table of Contents, addresses the questions “When do I call my doctor?” and “When do I call 911?”
drawMD enables clinicians to simplify and explain medical concepts visually, customizing in real time in coversation with a patient.
On Wednesday we concluded the six-week series on UX Maturity with The AI of UX. If you missed any of these or want to read them through again, see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Around the Studio: Continuing Efforts in Open Government provides a look at how the City of Asheville, NC has launched an online visual financial tool based on the work of Arlington Visual Budget.
Topics: Design, digital health, health
You may remember our work with the Town of Arlington to produce the award-winning Arlington Visual Budget, an open source web application that creates an easier way to communicate complex municipal financial information. The app has been well-recieved here in Arlington and is being explored by other communities as far away as Asheville, North Carolina.
Topics: Design, Open Government, infovis, open data
So why waste valuable character space and SEO just to state the obvious? Starting now, we’ll still give you a quick run-down of the week’s articles and share a few of our latest web finds. We just won't tell you that it’s Friday.
Topics: Design, Open Government, health, open data
What sleep deprivation does to your brain, in one stunning infographic put together by GE and Mic for BrainMic.
Topics: health
That time of year when DIY-ers want to d.i.e. because they have set the bar too high again. Gifts in a jar, hand-felted laptop cases—carefully crafted artisanal homespun organic and fair trade objects imbued with positive vibrations.
Topics: creativity, company culture, building
MedTech Boston recently posted an interview with Michael DePalma and Richie Etwaru, founders of The Human API. Their mission is to create a “prevention industry” with a new economic and behavioral model for health. According to the article, The Human API wants to “foster paradigm shift by instilling prevention and early identification health barometers into everyday life.” We should talk.
Business Insider this week featured a story about MIT physicist Jeremy England who has derived a mathematical formula that he asserts underlies the theory of evolution by natural selection. I particularly appreciated the explanation of thermodynamic equilibrium using the example of a room-temperature cup of coffee: it will never spontaneously reheat. That is my kind of physics.
According to John Brownlee on Fast Company’s CoDesign, “the experience of using Nintype is like playing the craziest game of Dance Dance Revolution ever at some futuristic space rave while out of your gourd on LSD-infused cotton candy.”
Topics: Design
Most medium-to-large companies have staff who are responsible for employee learning. Some live in Human Resources and offer training on things like business writing and leadership skills. Others sit in a training organization that develops product and process training. Such groups usually follow a highly structured process of content drafting, reviews, and even testing, all using branded templates and sanctioned development tools before releasing a final deliverable.
Topics: culture of learning, Business of Design
My most recent family gathering included a few of my favorite engineers, so I brought back this gem to share.
Topics: Design, emerging technologies, creativity
It’s a short week with Thanksgiving on Thursday, but for many that means cramming five days of work into three. How to get motivated first thing in the morning?
Topics: community, company culture