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The Quiet Strain of Family Caregiving—And How Tech Can Help
Invisible, unpaid, and often unsupported—family caregivers are holding up the healthcare system. It’s time we built tools that hold them up, too. The Silent Crisis Behind the Frontlines of Care “I was doing 24-hour care. Still am.” That’s how one caregiver described supporting her father through a long, difficult battle with cancer, while also managing…
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Parallel diversity as a problem solving method
Dave Snowden talks about trios, a concept similar to pair programming where a small diverse team of three people explore ideas and make prototypes. A trio links roles in inter-threaded patterns to see what is possible. The trio needs to have diversity across specialisms and generations to increase the likelihood of novel ideas. The idea…
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The human hand in the manufacture of high-tech products
I enjoyed Isabel Mager’s talk at the Design Indaba 2017 festival, she investigated the role of human labour in the manufacture of high-tech products. A discussion sorely lacking in the design community. Check out her film, 5000times: 5000times _ manual tasks from Isabel Mager on Vimeo. Our smart high-tech devices are made by human hand.…