Category Healthcare
Human-centred design at GE’s health-care unit [Business Week]
Business Week writes about how GE’s health-care unit went to design students at the Art Center College of Design for out-of-the-box ideas that are focused on people rather than technology, take a systems approach to problem solving, and are culturally…
Steelcase on user-centred research and its impact upon the healing environment
Paul Gardien of Philips Design on the importance of meaning in technological innovation
Living old
France Telecom on disability and innovation
Design Council presentation on designing new public services
Knowledge@Wharton on getting to the heart of the customer
Philips reveals new design innovations at the 2006 Simplicity Event
Healthcare facilities that invite
ThinkCycle: open collaborative design
ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative, developed and operated by a group of doctoral students at the MIT Media Laboratory, engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture…
The EU’s eUSER project
Strategic planning for the future at Siemens
The Serious Games Initiativew
The Journey to the Interface: how public service design can connect users to reform
Aging in the 21st century [The New York Times]
Going online for health [International Herald Tribune]
The costs of health care have gradually been passed along to the end user; more and more, the information needed to manage our health is within easy reach as well, on the Internet. The European Union, for instance, last month…
More information on Dott, the UK regional design initiative
Dott is a ten year programme of design innovation, initiated by the Design Council, that will take place every two years in a different region or nation across the UK. The programme encourages the innovative use of design as contribution…