Design School 2007,
Me in 2008, and a Blizzard

Happy new year +3! What follows is my experience in 2007 as a graduate student and the opportunities it afforded me, as well as what I will be doing in 2008. Finally, I mention the blizzard that is about to hit Mammoth Lakes, California, where I currently am. Design...

UX Week Takeaways

Here are all the presentations I went to at UX Week, along with a single takeaway to make it an easy read. If there is no takeaway, I was probably checking email or working on Emergence. Day 1 ClearRx: From Masters Thesis to Medicine Cabinet (Keynote) with Deborah...

Why the Charmr Is Significant

My Adaptive Path colleague, Alexa, has a great post on our vision for the Charmr project. Our primary hope is that device companies will see the enthusiasm that a vision created from this perspective can generate and might embrace a more human-centered approach in...

My Summer Work Unveiled—Charmr

Yesterday at UX Week the R&D project I’ve been working on all summer for Adaptive Path was unveiled during a panel discussion called Wear It During Sex. The project was inspired by an open letter to Steve Jobs by Amy Tenderich, a diabetic. Adaptive Path...
Charmr Project: Diabetes Management

Charmr Project: Diabetes Management

Interaction Designer, Adaptive Path, Summer 2007 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...