We recently bought a product that came with this remote control.

Design Quiz #1:

Which button would you choose to turn on the device for this remote?

#Design #Quiz — How often should you take this medication?

Here is the medication label.

There are a zillion tools and wearables in the marketplace to support a new approach to supporting health. Tools like the Apple Watch, the Fitbit and the Samsung Galaxy Watch help you track your steps, track your activity, or track your sleep! It was inevitable that Amazon would come out with its own health monitoring tool instead of just selling other companies’ tools in its marketplace. But this is the biggest #design #fail for health tech I have seen thus far.

The Amazon Halo Band is a new health tracking bracelet that is coming out from Amazon. Read the article…

Here are two important examples of #innovation in the face of a global pandemic:

A new form of human greeting:

Click to see video

The drive-through #coronavirus testing station in South Korea

Click to see video.

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Disclosures: T1D Exchange, Grant funding from Lenovo.

David Chang is a culinary innovator and wildly successful chef and restaurateur who is famous for his ramen noodles and his pork buns. His culinary activities started with the Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York City and have expanded to his larger enterprise which has included opening more restaurants across the globe, and producing and starring in a number of Netflix television shows like Ugly Delicious and Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

In 2004 he opened his first restaurant Momofuku, the concept of which was a simple ramen shop. His motivations for opening the restaurant were simple:

“I’m not an awesome…

As you know, I am totally fascinated by ketchup and sign design.

The design of this ketchup bottle created because of:

A. A careless labeling job at the Heinz factory!
B. It needed a sign to fix a major design flaw!
C. A really brilliant marketing campaign!

The answer is here.

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Disclosures: T1D Exchange, Grant funding from Lenovo.

I saw this tweet by Christina Farr.

I wholeheartedly agree! This tweet reminds me of a post that I wrote back in 2014 focused on design to support medication adherence. I compared two very different products, Pillpack vs. Proteus.

Proteus Digital Health

Here is the current description of the Proteus product from their website:

In 2015, citizens in the state of Michigan seeking public benefits had to fill out this application form (DHS-1171), administered by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).

How successful do you think you would be at filling the above form out? The absurdity of the form is overwhelming.

We literally would have people who had a Ph.D. and say, ‘I can read this, but I actually don’t understand this’

-Michael Brennan, Civilla

Civilla, a non-profit design firm in Detroit, decided to take on the challenge of this form, on behalf of the millions of citizens in Michigan and the caseworkers forced to use it on a daily basis. …