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 the changes that happen to our hearing as we age, and, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Meaning of Experience
My mom is barely old enough to remember a world without color television. As far as I remember, we’ve always had a computer in the house, and my younger brother …