Jason Fried over at 37signals
mentioned
today that he gets a lot of questions about “growing the business”: why aren’t they, when will they, etc.
They don’t plan to. Not in the traditional sense, by hiring. What’s important here is that they have oriented their business, and especially their products, to succeed without requiring additional head […]
Seth’s Blog: It (almost) always happens this way
Sometimes I feel like I work at the place Seth is describing. Unlikely, but sometimes it feels that way.
(tags:
inspiration
business
failure
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The Boring Old Broiler Turns Out to Be a Superstar - New York Times
I don’t usually cover cooking stories, but this one satisfies a need (I have struggled needlessly with broiling for some time) and tickles my sense of simplicity. Broiling in a cast-iron skillet (preheated) sounds like a tasty time-saver.
(tags:
cooking
food
homeideas
)
Research, definition, and design of reports detailing insulin pump and glucose sensor-derived data to enhance the care of patients with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes.
Why it works
While visiting endocrinology practices and talking with endocrinologists, nurses, diabetes educators, and clinic staff, we learned that there is very little standard about diabetes care save three facts:
Practitioners have very […]
Research, definition, and design of software collecting and reporting on insulin pump and glucose sensor-derived data to enhance the care of patients with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes.
Why it works
The typical endocrinologist has a very short visit with each patient, often fifteen minutes or less. Acquiring patient data from an insulin pump can take eight minutes, […]
Definition and design of software demonstrating the usefulness of a continuous glucose sensor (to endocrinologists and their patients) by simulating the body’s response to food, exercise, and insulin via a mathematical model.
Why it works
The complexities of diabetes care are deliberately minimized to put the focus on three variables: food, exercise, and insulin, and their effect […]
(pdf) Review of a problematic segment of an on-device interface for a major medical device manufacturer.
Why it works
This presentation was to embedded software engineers, so they needed a small amount of stage-setting: what should we attempt to accomplish in improving the interface? WHat changes will help, and how?
What I’d change
I could have focused more on […]
Simulation of a medical-device for design-phase usability testing. (The ACT, ESC, up, and down buttons are active.)
Why it works
This HTML prototype allowed us to test terminology, information architecture, process flow, scrolling behavior, and other aspects of a medical device’s overall usability with actual patients in the target market. We overturned many myths about the usability […]
Extranet definition, design, and implementation for a Mac-centric IT consulting firm.
Why it works
An information-first design that contrasts with the Mann Consulting website to give the feeling that it is separate and private, and that carries pertinent, prioritized information about their current and coming projects.
What I’d change
It would have been nice to link the projects to […]
Site design and implementation for a Mac-centric IT consulting firm serving advertising and other creative firms in the San Francisco region.
Why it works
Minimal, “single sell” design grabs attention with a strong image and headline, with red accents supporting the brand colors. A random sell graphic and text are chosen from a stable of favorites on […]
Flyer inviting business school students to participate in a competition aimed at recruiting.
Why it works
Clean and spare design uses a small amount of ornament and typographic variation to ease the stodginess.
What I’d change
The vertical axis established by “E-business case study challenge” isn’t taken advantage of by any of the type below it. The useful design […]
Javascript Progress / Percentage Bar with CSS by WebAppers
A simple progress bar implemented in CSS. Unfortunately it does not degrade nicely; the data does not come from the HTML. This could easily be remedied by altering the javacript to seek and update data in the page.
(tags:
javascript
css
design
html
apps
)
What is it?
This blog showcases pictures of unusual objects and asks: What is it? Each week there are new objects to puzzle over. Examining the rarer ones presents a fun mechanical-thinking challenge, and sometimes I gain insight into other problems I’m working on.
(tags:
blog
fun
gadgets
weekly
design
technology
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Scrollovers - A New Way of Linking
Do not do this. While the effect is nice, this implementation adds a lot more markup than necessary to the page, duplicates content, misuses the fieldset tag, and interrupts reading.
(tags:
javascript
css
webdesign
design
animation
antipattern
)
The Soft Underbelly of Hardware (Subtraction)
New hardware is commonly bundled with VERY BAD software. This is as true in the medical device industry as it is for consumer electronics companies such as Canon and HP. It doesn’t have to be this way.
(tags:
design
software
research
usability
user
customer
)
BDM01 - The Emotion of Customer Experience - […]