Karan BainsDesigning with EconomicsDesigning healthcare apps is challenging for a plethora of reasons, but low user retention has been on our team’s mind constantly…Apr 15, 2020Apr 15, 2020
Karan BainsUX: More Important than Ever in the Time of COVID-19In the past month, COVID-19 has upended all of our lives. Social distancing, PPE, ventilators, and other terms new to the public have…Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020
Karan BainsExpert Advice: A Nudge Towards IterationAs we continue to develop our pediatric type 1 diabetes gamification platform at Odyssey, we have been wrestling with the difficult…Mar 12, 2020Mar 12, 2020
Karan BainsMoney Talks — To All AgesKids are motivated by rewards. While most parents already know this, our team at Odyssey began our most recent round of interviews less…Mar 5, 2020Mar 5, 2020
Karan BainsA Retrospective on SprintAfter completing our first Sprint as a team, we sat down together to conduct a ‘retro’, Cornell Tech’s equivalent of a team performance…Feb 27, 2020Feb 27, 2020
Karan BainsMeeting People Where They AreGetting people to do something they don’t want to do is usually a difficult task, but as any parent can attest, the challenge level rises…Feb 19, 2020Feb 19, 2020
Karan BainsContext is EverythingIn healthcare, we often think about interventions in purely medical terms. If a medication or procedure is appropriate for a given…Feb 6, 2020Feb 6, 2020
Karan BainsOur Gamification OdysseyBefore I became a medical student, I thought working in healthcare would teach me how to best control my own health and that of my future…Jan 28, 2020Jan 28, 2020
