Designing for the age-enhanced: cognitive changes
If you’ve read the previous posts in this series, you understand the changes that happen to our vision and hearing as we age and, more importantly, how those changes affect …
How to avoid the #1 mistake in user research
“So, you really think we need to talk to them [users]?” – Anonymous client As a product design firm, Daedalus advocates understanding the users of the products we design and …
“Free” electricity?
I’ve always been an ICE (internal combustion engine) guy. I grew up riding motorcycles, tubing behind jet skis, and getting muddy on four wheelers. But it wasn’t until I bought …
A better way to wake up
Summer is officially over and the days have become noticeably shorter here at the 40th latitude. This is the time of year when I become increasingly reliant on my alarm …
The 7 deadly sins of user interface design
In the 1967 Peter Cook/Dudley Moore comedy “Bedazzled,” the embodiments of the legendary 7 deadly sins played minor (and sometimes not so minor) roles in the ongoing temptations that the …
The thirty day networking intensive, Spring 2013
I am a constant face-to-face networker and also an avid user of social media. In May I started an experiment to better help me understand: 1. The comparative strengths and …
Medical devices, the TSA, and Chewbacca’s lightsaber
I’ve been working on this post for a while, but yesterday a news story caught my eye that drove me to finish it. Apparently, the Transportation Security Administration recently and …
Designing for the age-enhanced: hearing
Recently we posted the first in a series of articles discussing the changes we undergo as we age and how those changes affect our interactions with products and interfaces. The …
Daedalus published in AAMI Horizons
This April, Daedalus will feature an article in Horizons the award-winning publication from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). Our article, Avoiding Conflicting Requirements in the Development …
Daedalus advocates for design research at the 2013 HFES International Symposium on Health Care
Carolynn Johnson, Daedalus Research Manager, recently presented Management System for a Pediatric Heart Pump: A Design Research Case Study at the 2013 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in …