Designing for the age enhanced: how vision changes
Recently, one of our clients asked us to craft user profiles and design recommendations for a product centered on older populations. If you search the internet for this, you’ll find …
Raccoons, Top Gear, and aging eyes
Over the last decade I have purchased three video games for myself (and a couple of hundred for our kids). All of mine have been racing games. Last week I …
Billboard sized bad design
Recently I saw that a new digital billboard had been installed on my route home. I don’t like these billboards, though I am sure the advertisers love them. These billboards, …
Did my tablet give me carpal tunnel syndrome?
Honestly, no. I’ve been gradually developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) for a number of years. For anyone not familiar with CTS, when it starts you often wake up with your …
NTSB cell phone ban
Another update to this story. This is a text message that was never sent. The young man writing it didn’t see his friend soon. He never saw him again. University …
Driving by touch
The other afternoon it was quite warm out for the drive home, and once again my husband pointed out that I had my car’s air flow directed only on to …
Imminent threat of confusion … or was that elevated?
This week the Department of Homeland Security is replacing the much-lampooned color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) with a new system, the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS). When introducing the …