Last week, Sandy, Ana and I joined hundreds of other designers, user experience experts, and patient advocates at the Healthcare Experience Design Conference. We heard from speakers on a range of topics, from behavior-changing games to the healthy workplace of the future. Sandy and I presented on reader-centered design, focusing on involving individuals with limited [...]
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Designing Tools for Citizenship at the Good Hackathon
March 8, 2012 – 4:46 pm
Last weekend, a creative contingent from CommunicateHealth headed to New York City for the GOOD Design Hackathon, a weekend challenge for interaction designers that was hosted at the Parsons New School. Our challenge: in 24 hours, design the ideal tool that empowers the average New Yorker every hour of every day to practice and maximize [...]
Rethinking the Food Label
August 2, 2011 – 9:26 am
All natural! Good source of calcium! Low fat! Messages on the front of food packages shout at us in the grocery store, convincing us we need not stare at the stark statistics on the back of the package to determine if it’s healthy. When it comes to making food choices, the current nutrition label is [...]
Your Daily Dose of Color
April 26, 2011 – 10:14 am
Nutrition experts recommend eating a variety of colorful foods as part of a healthy diet. But the natural colors of the produce section often compete with the artificial colors of the junk food aisle. Artist Tattfoo designed a public art project to highlight the beautiful colors found in foods we should be eating regularly. After [...]
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