May 2010
14 posts
WatchTHE GREAT GULF OIL CATASTROPHE: it’s time to go back to school
Problem 1 – Using a metric ruler, calculate the scale of this image in kilometers/cm. Answer: The ‘25km’ legend mark on the Terra image is 1.7 cm long, so the scale is 25km/1.7cm= 15km/cm.
Problem 2 – What is the approximate area of this oil leak in A) square meters? B) square meters?
Answer: The oil...
WatchKAISER INNOVATION: their 1950s hospital of the future
Henry Kaiser and Sidney Garfield imagined dream hospitals; in dream locations. Future baby boomer’s were seen by mother through a drawer in the wall, while father caught a final smoke. There were no problems with unwanted vistors either, as everyone was locked in by remote control.
PROBLEM: transfer baby from nursey to mother’s...
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THE ONE TOOL FOR SUPPORT HEALTHCARE DESIGN TRANSFORMATION: hyperbole is no vice
Rapid Prototyping supports the co-creation of safe and improved care experience through the engagment of patients, physicians, care providers and stakeholders in the designing and testing of care delivery solutions before they are realized.
TOOL: Rapid Prototyping
SOLUTION: The alignment...
WatchSIXTHSENSE : align man and machine
MIT’s Pranav Mistry presents several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a review of his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.”
Why? Humanizing technology
How? Technology for the masses
What? Augmented Reality
WatchWHY? HOW? WHAT? : the leadership pattern
Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle explains the relationship of leadership & meaning. It’s not what you do, it’s what you believe.
Example: Flying
Samuel Pierpont Langley - Had: $50k, Harvard, NY Times
Wright Brothers – Had: $0, No higher Education & A dream to change the course of the world
WatchIT’S HUGE: design thinking made visual project
A visual document on the shift in what it means to DESIGN. Well done Humantific!