Combinate podcast

I met Subhi Saadeh, Combinate’s host, at the Injectables Summit conference last September in Boston. He later invited me to be a guest on the podcast. We recorded it on January 23. We spoke about many things, including usability of medical product such as injection devices. And baseball. Here’s a link.

Baseball Field Guide, 4th Edition is out!

The 4th edition of Baseball Field Guide is now available. Major League Baseball implemented a lot of changes to the rules this year. Their goal is to speed up the game while adding more on-field action (a.k.a.more base hits.) Co-written and co-illustrated with Paul Hamburger, we use the best principles of information design to explain...Continue reading

ChipChat interview

ChipChat is streamed live from Washington DC every Thursday night (or is it almost every Thursday night?) from 9:30 to 11:00 Eastern time at rippedradionetwork.com. Hosts Chip and Tez talk about many things going on in the world, free-form. Topics tend to focus on politics and sports, but the topics are by no means limited....Continue reading

How to Design Products for Disability Inclusion

Journalist Catherine Tse featured me in her article on inclusive design, How to Design Products for Disability Inclusion, which was posted on the Natural Habitat website (May 2022). The article discusses a bit of my background, and mainly the overall importance of considering everybody when designing. There’s also a huge financial opportunity: “People with disabilities...Continue reading

MD&M Talk at the Javits Center in NYC

On December 9 I spoke about design at the Medical Design & Manufacturing convention at the Javits Center in Manhattan. I participated in a panel discussion hosted by Michael Wiklund, with co-panelists John Gatzemeyer and Tor Alden. It was mid-Covid, with NYC seeing another spike in cases, and while the convention itself wasn’t packed we...Continue reading

Six more episodes of Well Equipped

We’ve been shooting new episodes of Condé Nast / Epicurious Well Equipped series every two months, one each on two consecutive days. In the six newest episodes not mentioned previously, I test gadgets for sandwiches, cutting, brunch, nut cracking, “As Seen On TV,” and vintage. This vintage Ice Pet ice shaver worked pretty well. It...Continue reading

Premier Guitar: Tube-Amp Basics

Here’s the cover article I wrote for the August 2021 issue of Premier Guitar magazine, discussing basic principles of tube amplifier operation. The tubes, transformers, speakers and other components consume the large majority of power, converting it into heat, not sound. Less than 1% of the power going into a tube amplifier exits as sound....Continue reading

BBC’s The Food Chain

This episode of the BBC’s The Food Chain features Scott Jarvie, Gavin Reay and me. Host Emily Thomas discusses various aspects of the design of kitchen gadgets. Talk centers on what goes into a design, considerations of design for a wide audience, and what we should or should not be designing. The online version of...Continue reading

Embracing Complexity: GovComms podcast, Canberra Australia

GovComms, a podcast for government communicators produced by contentgroup in Canberra, Australia, explores the future of government communications. Host David Pembroke holds conversations with innovators around the world. I was invited to be the guest on Episode 73: Embracing Complexity, posted August 17 2020. In it we discuss creative approaches to innovation and the importance of understanding the full width...Continue reading

How to wear a mask without fogging up your glasses

As a follow-up to my Fast Company article on masks a few days earlier, I discussed masks and eyewear fogging with Elizabeth Segran for her April 7 2020 article. Surgical masks are intended to be worn in hospitals. Even in that environment eyewear will fog, caused by exhaled breath leaking around the bridge of the...

Epicurious: 5 Avocado Kitchen Gadgets Improved By Design

Another video shot for Epicurious’ Well Equipped series. This one on avocado gadgets. As before, and as obvious, no script or rehearsal. The Epicurious team finds the gadgets and springs them on me to evaluate. Epicurious: 5 Avocado Kitchen Gadgets Improved By Design This is Episode 8 of Season 1, and the most recent video...

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