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 [...]
Design for Health
Your Daily Dose of Color
By Molly | April 26, 2011Universal Precautions: Prescription Label Changes
By Amy | January 21, 2011Prescription labels can be a major source of confusion for the 48% of Americans taking prescription medications every month. That’s why we would like to applaud the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) for proposing new standards for all prescription labels in the U.S. The standards draw heavily from best practices in health literacy and user-centered design. Currently, [...]
A Teaspoon or Tablespoon of Prevention?
By Sarah | December 7, 2010A new study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) calls attention to the difficulties parents have giving the proper dose of medication to their child. The study looked at over-the-counter medications that came packaged with a measuring device. Out of 148 medications included in the study, 146 of them had inconsistencies [...]
Push blue button, get medical records.
By Sarah | November 11, 2010Many Americans have experienced the hassle of getting their own medical records. The process is complex—calling different phone numbers, signing forms, sending faxes, making photocopies, paying fees—and often deters people from accessing their records at all. That is until now. Thanks to some creative developers and support from the Federal government, users will be able [...]
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