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Archive for June, 2011

Preparing a Healthcare Organization for Change

As any CIO knows, any organizational change, badly managed, can lead to whining and revolt. However, as shown in our earlier post, “How the Healthcare CIO Saves Lives” the benefits of successfully implementing IT initiatives like Business Process Management can be profound. In many cases we are talking about the difference between life and death. […]

Pimp Your Logo with JQuery

Dennis Bland has an interesting post on our Spark blog on using JQuery to change your logo.  They have a great example of allowing your logo to change without using Flash.

Upgraded Adobe Flash and Flex Builders Aimed at Mobile Development

eWeek has a short article out about the Adobe’s updated Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 aimed at mobile development.   Adobe continues to follow their model for using Flash as a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).  While still relatively young, small vendors like Pyxis and even larger vendors like IBM are pushing a strategy of […]

Why the Emergence of Mobile Will Improve Your Digital Strategy

Smaller screens, fat-finger errors, dropped connections, myriad platforms – why would anyone whose focus is designing immersive digital experiences be excited about the emergence of mobile as a dominant channel for accessing the Web? The “Year of Mobile” has been declared each year for the last eight years, and with it predictions of how mobile […]

Flex Your Risk Muscle

Do you hit the bull’s-eye every time? If so, you are standing too close to the target. As Woody Allen puts it: If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything innovative. Everyone has a “risk muscle.” You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, […]

High-cost Patients, High-Tech Solutions: Why Taxpayers Deserve ICD-10 Compliance

When the sickest 1-percent of patients are responsible for nearly 30-percent of healthcare costs (over $690 billion annually) everyone loses. Since millions of people will be joining Medicaid under the new healthcare reform, states must either be prepared to pay the price tag associated with high-cost patients or determine a better way to manage the […]

The need for a broader perspective in user experience design

Last week, I attended UPA 2011. The theme this year was Designing for Social Change. The opening keynote speaker Paul Adams, Global Brand Experience Manager at Facebook, shared his research (an earlier version of his presentation available on Slideshare) into social networks. Among the many insights of the presentation, his research showed that the change […]

Give Yourself a Whack on the Side of the Head

A followup to my graphic standards and style guide post: The more often you do something in the same way, the more difficult it is to think about doing it in any other way. Break out of this “prison of familiarity” by disrupting your habitual thought patterns. Eat ice cream for breakfast. Wear red sox. […]

20 reasons NOT to collaborate – #3 You don't want to be heard

Wait, this isn’t true.  I saw you at the holiday party – you like to be heard.  At the heart of every company is an idea that was given a vision, some elbow grease, maybe some seed capital.  You have a small businesses like Hanson Silo or large multi-national businesses like Union Pacific that have […]

20 reasons NOT to collaborate – #3 You don’t want to be heard

Wait, this isn’t true.  I saw you at the holiday party – you like to be heard.  At the heart of every company is an idea that was given a vision, some elbow grease, maybe some seed capital.  You have a small businesses like Hanson Silo or large multi-national businesses like Union Pacific that have […]

Tablets Need UX Love Too

Now that the newest Android tablets (Motorola XOOM and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) have come close to matching Apple’s iPad in terms of fit and functionality, I expect the demand for Android tablets to show a marked increase in sales.  There has been a considerable amount of material written around Android smartphone  User Experience (UX) […]

Photoshop: Make a photo a sketch in 3 easy steps.

In working with architects and the St. Louis Landmarks Association, I have often ran across a need to render a building or represent a landmark as an architect’s conceptual sketch. Trying out some technics in Photoshop one day, I discovered a wonderful filter called “Find Edges.” With this filter, you can make almost any photo […]

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