Category Archives: Design for the Majority | Collab

Design for the Majority | Chronic Disease | Stroke | The Home Kit

Here are a few images of the Home Kit prototype: The kit will include a pamphlet to describe how to make these simple modifications to everyday objects.  These include item that make life easier for stroke survivors and their families.  They are based on products that can be purchased for much more then the average [...]
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Design for the Majority | Chronic Disease | Stroke

Concept Precentation to IDEO Shanghai. This is a very fast video (due to upload limitations) of our presentation.  You can press pause to examine each slide.
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Design For the Majority | Research Results

I’ve compiled the research. Please click the image below to download a copy of the original document. This does not include sketches, diagrams, and illustration. I will post those separately later in the week. I will then link it back to HERE.
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Design for the Majority | Expert Interview 2

Friday, March 5, 2010, 9:00pm This is an interview in my home with Denise Purdie.  She is 3rd Year Medical Student/Resident at Mount Sinai School of Medicine here in New York City and is completed her final rotations this month in Neurology, the specialty that stroke patient’s fall under.  She is a close friend and can [...]
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Design for the Majority | Expert Interview 1

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 8:00pm This interview is about 18 minutes long. It is very dark, but the information is fantastic. Many many thanks to Donna Abell. Donna Abell is a Physical Therapist living in Chesapeake Virginia. She specializes in Geriatric Rehabilitation. She has been working with stroke survivors for many years. She is a [...]
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Design for the Majority | Chronic Disease | Stroke

Primary Research | Expert Interviews ________________________________ Thursday, March 4, 2010 Interview at 8:00pm.  (*personal iChat interview) Donna Abell is a Physical Therapist living in Chesapeake Virginia.  She specializes in Geriatric Rehabilitation.  She has been working with stroke survivors for many years.  She is a close friend’s mother and I knew right away she would be [...]
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Design For the Majority | Five Dollars a Day Reflections

Please click on below to download the complete report.
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Design For the Majority | Chronic Disease | Research Proposal

Topic Prevention and treatment of stroke and it’s effects in seniors living in rural China. Objectives To understand stroke in the elderly. To understand current stroke treatment and prevention methods. To prevent or lessen the impact of a stroke for seniors living on a dollar-a-day in rural China. Questions What are the causes of stroke? [...]
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Design For the Majority | Chronic Disease | Sketches #1

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Design For the Majority | Stroke Information

I downloaded a lot of relevent information from the American Stroke Association. Click the image below to download a zip of all the different articals. I also thought this was an interesting informational card.  Not really a good-looking card, but an interesting and effective approach.  hmmmm …. How would this translate into Chinese?
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