Good Design of Products or Processes Makes Doing the Right Thing Obvious &…
Good design, for products or processes, should be intuitive, if not obvious. In this post, I struggle with…
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If a Toilet Requires Instructions, It’s Probably Badly Designed
One of the more trivial things I saw on my recent vacation to Scotland and England was a badly designed toilet on a…
CBC on Lean in Saskatchewan Hospitals
I've been to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan before -- in February. It was a very cold, snowy place, to say the least!…
Podcast #148 – Naida Grunden & Charles Hagood on “Lean-Led…
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Episode #148 is a conversation with a returning guest, Naida Grunden…
Momentum of Lean Healthcare Design Continues to Build
Oh geez, that's an awful pun in the post title. Sorry. As an increasing number of health systems are using "Lean…
Another Bad Design Example
Let's go with a light thought and topic for a Sunday, considering there are sad examples of medical malfeasance and…
Who Is Making Sure Things Work?
Hamilton Beach HDC100B Pourover Pod Brewer
Sorry for the blog downtime the past few days. I had a great weekend…
Smart or Dumb Machines?
Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine - New York TimesGood article here about Donald Norman and his views on some of the…
Boneheaded Design from Verizon
Verizon's new phones set off alarm when you dial 911This sort of smells like a "urban legend" or a tall tale, but…
When is Complex worse than Simple?
Complexity Creep: BMW's Electronic "Dipstick" Causes Oil Grief - JalopnikThanks to blog reader Marc for sending…
Dumb Design
Intelligent Design: Cellphones Are Kryptonite To Nissan's I-Key - ConsumeristI previously had trouble with my Prius…