Category: 2018

  For many people, taking a blood pressure reading can be baffling. It’s a design problem. Here’s an article I wrote about it on Medium. Five Ways That Checking Your Blood Pressure Can Raise Your Blood Pressure

  It was fun to open the BluetoothWorld conference last Tuesday morning in Santa Clara, California. In a two-day conference that was apt to be filled with presentations discussing tech, I opted to talk about humans. More specifically, our 50,000 year behavioral history, and the limited impact we have as designers on the way people...Continue reading

  Following up on the “humans” theme from my recent Bluetooth World presentation, in my keynote talk at Denver Design Week last week I spoke about design and humans. Questions I posed during the talk included: Why is design so difficult?, Why are females so difficult?, Why are we so bad at math?, and Why...Continue reading

Rethinking Time, a commentary I wrote on our attitudes toward time, has been published in Ergonomics in Design Volume 26 Issue 2, April 2018. Discussing things such as why I set my microwave to 33 seconds instead of 30, the consequences of applying an education-instilled factory-based mindset to virtually everything we do, and why we downplay the fact...

Improving health through design: The podcast recorded last week with Moyez Jiwa, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Health Design in Melbourne, Australia, is now online. At just over 5 minutes, topics include design and behavior, and the need for better design in healthcare for both patients and healthcare providers. Thanks to Moyez for...Continue reading

Here’s a link to Episode 70 of the RoboPsych – a podcast on robots, AI and the future – hosted by Dr. Tom Guarriello and Carla Diana. The topic we discussed centers on technology, design and gender. The opportunities for companies and organizations to better address females are vast. This includes not just producing products and services...Continue reading