“But We Only Use 10% of Our Brains!”
“It is estimated most human beings only use 10% of their brain’s capacity.” That’s a line from Morgan Freeman’s character in the new Sci-Fi movie Lucy, coming out this summer. It’s …
“It is estimated most human beings only use 10% of their brain’s capacity.” That’s a line from Morgan Freeman’s character in the new Sci-Fi movie Lucy, coming out this summer. It’s …
My posts always argue that as designers (and engineers, manufacturers, etc), we have a responsibility to create smart, beautiful, and useful products for our users. But lately, I’ve realized that …
The other night I was peacefully asleep, enjoying a pleasant dream, when suddenly…. After a few confusing seconds, I realized it wasn’t my alarm clock. It was my Personal Diabetes Manager (PDM) …
If you’ve read the previous posts in this series, you understand the changes that happen to our vision and the changes that happen to our hearing as we age, and, …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
When Daedalus was sponsoring the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s event The Creative Technology Network’s Innovator Series Presents Roger Martin: Gaining Competitive Advantage with Design Thinking (5/22/2012), I decided to read Martin’s The Opposable …