Pathway #5: Best practice mobile healthcare UX
CategoryDesign Talk 48. Sofia Svanteson, co-founder & CEO, Elsa Science; founder & chairman, Ocean; Health by design
Sofia Svanteson shares how founding and growing her own design agency has helped to shape Elsa, her new life sciences venture which aims to support rheumatoid patients in achieving meaningful self-care. She talks to MEX founder Marek Pawlowski abo…
Parakeets, problem analysis and the beauty of inconvenience
In his 2014 book Being Mortal, Atul Gawande tells the story of how Dr. Bill Thomas, a medical director at a nursing home in upstate New York, improved the experience of residents by challenging conventional elder care practices. Thomas believed th…
Design Talk 32. Death in VR; Paula Ceballos, experience designer
Design Talk 30. Ruby Steel, Smart Design
Ruby Steel’s path in design has been characterised by her interest in multi-sensory experiences and finding ways to help people overcome impairments. Recently, she appeared in the BBC television series ‘The Big Life Fix‘ as part of a team of desig…
Designing conversations about trust in medicine
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Using design language to establish trust is notoriously difficult. It is also a fast growing ne…
Iteration improves experience of sleep app
In a previous MEX podcast, I mentioned the sleep app Pzizz. It uses ‘psychoacoustics’ to put you to sleep: in simple, layman terms, soothing music that knocks you out.
Part of the 2016 Wayra UK cohort, back when I mentioned them, they had a fre…
The day Google invited me to learn papier mâché
It started like any average Thursday: I responded to a few messages and checked on project progress in our MEX Basecamp. It was when I opened my Google calendar to review the rest of the day that things got a little weird.
“News Year’s res…
Design Talk 26. Wearable experience design
Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest take up Patrizia Bertini’s challenge from the last episode and go in search of wearable technology beyond the smartwatch and fitness tracker. After questioning the term ‘wearable’ itself, Marek and Alex cite examples…