What Behavior Change for Sustainability and Pandemic Survival Have In Common
Last week I was the inaugural guest on Sustainable UX‘s live podcast series, run by my friend and colleague James Christie. Initially the discussion was …
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When You Don’t Speak the Language, Literally: My Experience with the Japanese Health Care System and Radical Empathy
A common thing in my world of behavior change and design is a focus on building empathy by talking to people, sharing their perspectives, and …
What’s in a Nudge? Our SXSW Submission
I am super excited about the panel I submitted for SXSW 2018. It’s called “What’s in a Nudge? Behavior Change in Health” and it will …
How Can Voice Tech Help Health Behavior Change? The Alexa Diabetes Challenge
I’ve gotten to do some cool work things lately. One big one is getting involved in the Alexa Diabetes Challenge, sponsored by Merck & Co., …
Digital Health Is Not a Hammer: Why Your Interventions May Be Set Up for Failure
As more data has become available on the success of digital health and wellness platforms, it’s become clear that many health plans and self-insured employers …
What’s Different About Designing For Health?
A question I’ve been thinking about more recently is, what makes health behavior change so special? And surprisingly enough for someone who’s spent over a …
When The Medical Is Personal
At the 2014 TEDxJNJ event I attended, Bennett Levitan of Janssen R&D talked about work he was doing to incorporate patient preference and risk tolerance …
How Is a Good Insight Like a Patent?
I got interested in genetic testing for fitness a while back, but haven’t pulled the trigger on anything yet (besides 23 and Me, a few …
Personalization: Good for Health Interventions, Maybe Not for Mattresses
I believe in personalization. Evidence has firmly established that more personalized behavior change programs are more effective. People perceive personalized information as more relevant, are …
Imagining Your Future Self Can Help You Be Healthier Now
Did you know that visualizing yourself differently can help you make health changes now? Depending on what you’re trying to change, either imagining a better …