"We already have a mental model, or muscle memory, tripping us up. I have an Xbox, and I always had Nintendo before, so I keep wanting to hit A and B all the time. If I was a five year old, I would have no issues."

Interview: New Trends in Mobile Design / Features / Nothing Major

"An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.”
- Richard Branson"

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Jay Parkinson, The Doctor Is In (Well, Logged In)

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"I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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70 percent of Americans track their health, but most go low-tech — Tech News and Analysis →

MD Anderson plastic surgeons pilot MDconnectME app for patient updates | mobihealthnews →

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Can Hospital Chains Improve the Medical Industry? : The New Yorker →

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I am officially enrolled in USCF’s Clinical Problem Solving class by Catherine R Lucey on Coursera!

Why? Because studying the mental process of making -litterally- life saving decisions could only improve my UxD practice… Stay tuned.

Despite striking advances in information technology, clinical problem solving has not yet been effectively replicated by computers, making it essential that clinicians work to develop expertise in this very important skill set.  While television shows make this seem like a magical process, work done by cognitive psychologists and medical educators has helped us understand the ways in which expert physicians reason through these difficult problems to help their patients.

Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 1974 (by John Eulenberg)

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"Kindness is underrated. We could always use more of it. We tend to worship visionaries and creative people (like Steve Jobs and Pablo Picasso) and elevate them to the status of gods, even though they were often assholes (like Steve Jobs and Pablo Picasso). Stop praising the jerks. It reinforces bad behaviour (all the parents in the house know this)."

Marc Johns: be kind

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Guys, AirBnB is hiring an Interaction Designer with a good sense of humor ;)

"Good design is often invisible, but it can contribute to reshaping the way our society works.”
- John Maeda"

Article: How to design a better world by John Maeda

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