How Designers Choose Colors
In product design, seemingly small choices have huge impacts on a design’s success in the marketplace and in use. One of the most important choices is color. The colors incorporated …
Multidisciplinary Design Firms: Greater than the Sum of Their Parts
With every product development project, there are certain key specialties involved. Researchers, designers, engineers, project managers, and purchasers all have distinct skill sets and responsibilities when it comes to configuring …
The Current Reality of Low-Cost Sensors: Scientific Data, Actionable Data, and Lies
The rise of low-cost sensors, like MEMS, optical, piezoelectric, chemical, and others, has made it possible to integrate sensing into everyday devices. These sensors, which once required bulky laboratory equipment, …
Lost in Design: The Case of the Missing Power Button
Several weeks ago, the remote for the monitor I use for my home computer died. Just the remote; not the monitor. Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be a story worth telling. It …
Using Synthetic Data to Drive Machine Learning
What is Machine Learning? Over the past few years, data scientists have been making remarkable breakthroughs in the field of machine learning, a process that allows humans to quite literally …
Alarm Fatigue
As a human factors specialist frequently involved with the design of medical equipment, I am very familiar with the concept of alarm fatigue. For those not familiar, it refers to …
Putting Housing Within Reach Through Engineering
Globally, there are nearly 1 billion people, or 1 out of every 8 of us, who do not have access to adequate permanent shelter. It’s a problem that feels overwhelming, …
Daedalus’ Expanded 3D Printing Capabilities
Daedalus recently acquired a new Stratasys J850 Pro 3D printer that dramatically expands our 3D print capabilities. Our new printer is capable of printing up to seven (7) different materials …
Why Technical Writing is Essential
This week, I voted by mail for the first time for the Pennsylvania Primary Election. I’ve always enjoyed voting in person for a variety of reasons, but as a type …
The Road to UX Hell…
Recently, I’ve begun to see articles and blog posts suggesting that UX, as a discipline, should be retired. Code and Theory CEO Dan Gardner, believes that UX has “moved from …