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Charmr Project: Diabetes Management

Interaction Designer, Adaptive Path, Summer 2007

Charmr

Charmr was an internal R&D project at Adaptive Path inspired by an Open Letter to Steve Jobs by a prominent diabetes blogger, Amy Tenderich. The goal was to generate enthusiasm for human-centered thinking and inspire broader change throughout the medical device and design industry.

Brainstorming I

In eight weeks, we went from user research with diabetics to final concept of what the experience could be. My role included conducting interviews, background research, research synthesis, concept generation, and communication of the envisioned experience.

Charmr screens

Charmr system

More information can be found on Adaptive Path’s website.

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Instructor

Carnegie Mellon University
Aug. 2007 – present
Currently teaching Basic Interaction (Spring 2008) to HCI undergraduates. Taught Intro to Design Computing (Fall 2007), a required course for IxD graduate students.

Conference Director 2007

Emergence is a CMU student-run design conference on emerging topics and issues in design.

Topics of Interest

ambient devices, design research, design theory, design thinking, emotion, identity, organizational change, service design, ubiquitous computing, wearables

Design Methods

conceptual models, evaluative research, generative research, personas, scenarios, prototypes, visualization

Tools

Mind and hand

Also: Arduino, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Processing

Technical Skills

XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, MySQL, XML