For the past five years as a consultant at HealthDataViz, I have worked with Connecticut-based organization The Donaghue Foundation to design and develop infographics for their annual reports. The organization funds research that promotes knowledge of practical benefits to improve health. Each year, my job was to review curated information pulled from awarded grantees’ research proposals, including Read more…
Constraints: Kryptonite or Door to Creative Innovation? In my work creating data visualizations, I often hear designers complain that constraints are their kryptonite or, perhaps worse, a barbed wire prison fence around their creative freedom. But if we change our thinking, constraints can be the inspiration to break out of Read more…
The story of modern medicine is the story of our human struggle with complexity. Technology will, without question, continually increase our ability to make diagnoses, to peer more deeply inside the body and the brain, to offer more treatments. It will help us document it all—but not necessarily to make Read more…