Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Healthcare
World Usability Day announces 2007 healthcare focus
Healthcare insurers conduct ethnographic research and test prototypes to provide more personalised experiences
NESTA call for user-focused solutions to mental health problems
The UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling for innovative project proposals from front-line workers, carers and people with direct experience of mental distress, to tackle some of the key challenges surrounding mental health in…
More and less: Designing for high-stakes decisions
The Collaborative State
Intel Technology Journal on “designing technology with people in mind”
The current issue of Intel Technology Journal, the company’s R&D webzine, is entirely devoted to people-centred design: Foreword Foreword By Herman D’Hooge Senior Principal Engineer Channel Platforms Group, Intel Corporation Ethnographic techniques Sideways glances: thinking laterally and holistically about technology…
Living Labs conference in Belgium
How to improve it? Ask those who use it [The New York Times]
UK Government pledge for ‘personalised’ public services
NESTA launches £20m initiative to stimulate social innovation
People searching for online health advice favour sites with a human touch, research suggests [BBC]
Venture philanthropy fund uses design thinking and ethnography to help solve real-world problems [Business Week]
Billing itself as a nonprofit venture capital firm, the Acumen Fund uses the principles of design to solve the problems of the poor. Just as the Procter & Gambles and Motorolas of the corporate world conduct extensive ethnographic research on…
GE’s user-friendly healthcare concepts for Africa [Business Week]
GE Healthcare sells $15 billion a year worth of big X-ray machines, CAT scans, and ultrasound testing equipment. The healthcare division of General Electric (GE ) usually differentiates its products by getting better and faster readings from its instruments—”feeds and…