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 …
Avoiding Conflicting Requirements in the Development of Home Healthcare Devices
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 …
Management System for a Pediatric Heart Pump: A Design Research Case Study
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 …
So Many Choices: Navigating a Changing Discipline
Matt Beale will be presenting at the 2013 IDSA Central District Design Conference later this month. Check back for an article delineating his ideas after the conference, but in the meantime, the …
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 dozens …
Apples and Oranges
As of Friday, Apple’s market cap is down over 35% from its September 12, 2012 peak. However, since this article was first published on September 23, 2011, Apple’s market cap …
Grounds of Mystery: A Design Research Experience
Every office has them — the people who can’t function without a morning cup o’ joe — and Daedalus is no exception. Recently, this crucial morning ritual mysteriously turned bitter …
Enlisting Engineers and Designers for Informative Research in a Short Amount of Time
The beauty and the curse of product development lie in the initial hurdle of design — the existence of a multitude of unknowns. Wading through this large pool of uncertainty …
B2B Social Media
We recently hosted an interesting lunch & learn at our office on the topic of Social Media as a B2B tool. Presented by The Culture of Innovation Collaborative and moderated …
The Monday Morning Movie
At Daedalus we recently started a new tradition — we call it the Monday Morning Movie, or MMM for short. But before telling you about our new tradition, let me …