Tag: Design

Good design, for products or processes, should be intuitive, if not obvious. In this post, I struggle with refueling my car, opening a trash can, and finding an auditorium seat writing surface. Hilarity ensues.

One of the more trivial things I saw on my recent vacation to Scotland and England was a badly designed toilet on a Virgin...

I've been to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan before -- in February. It was a very cold, snowy place, to say the least! But, there are many...

Episode #148 is a conversation with a returning guest, Naida Grunden (previous episode) and her co-author Charles Hagood (of Healthcare Performance Partners), talking about...

Oh geez, that's an awful pun in the post title. Sorry. As an increasing number of health systems are using "Lean design" approaches for...

Let's go with a light thought and topic for a Sunday, considering there are sad examples of medical malfeasance and poor management oversight in...

Hamilton Beach HDC100B Pourover Pod Brewer Sorry for the blog downtime the past few days. I had a great weekend back in my old hometown,...

Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine - New York TimesGood article here about Donald Norman and his views on some of the poorly designed...

Verizon's new phones set off alarm when you dial 911This sort of smells like a "urban legend" or a tall tale, but this...

Complexity Creep: BMW's Electronic "Dipstick" Causes Oil Grief - JalopnikThanks to blog reader Marc for sending this along. Technology for the sake of...

Intelligent Design: Cellphones Are Kryptonite To Nissan's I-Key - ConsumeristI previously had trouble with my Prius key flying out at me (which I've gotten...