design

The Future of Medical Technology

What if medical devices were developed based on the needs and desires of the patient?

Mom’s insulin pen

An engineer’s first hand experience with motherhood, apple pie, and diabetes With friends, family, and at dinner parties, the question is inevitable: Of all the products you’ve worked on, what is your favorite? The...

Playing with Fire

Designing a product so that it can’t cause harm is hard to do. It's even harder when you consider the the consequences of mis-use. Add kids to the mix, and the matrix of possible mis-use can be overwhelming.

Prototype Early, Prototype Often

in the development of an idea into a commercial product - prototypes are critical

Seeing Things Differently

The next time you’re engaged in a design problem, try on a different pair of glasses, and see what happens.

Feathers and Rocks

What weighs more, a pound of feathers, or a pound of rocks?

Clean Water

Sometimes, a great design solution comes from re-thinking the problem. Some musings on the delivery of fresh drinking water to people around world.

F5 Tornado

I spent the last few days helping my step-sister recover from the effects of an F5 tornado. It gave new meaning to the phrase, “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”