Blood and Barbed Wire

Visualizing a friend’s complex health history

Death timeline, life goals

Things I discovered while briefly studying death + design

Draw your problem

Your hand, a pen and some paper are your greatest problem-solving tools

Visualizing symptoms, sensations and stories

Trends in how people picture their health

The Limits of Health Data Aggregation

Why our health records don’t tell our whole stories

Being seen, feeling heard

Reflections from working with patients to visualize their health

Design research findings

Learning from complex patients and the providers who treat them

‘A safe space to draw’

Insights from leading a visual thinking workshop, and how drawing can transform…

From Pile to Smile

Insights from transforming a friend’s big stack of medical records into a visual…

Running doctor appointments like the best-designed meetings

When you go see your doctor, there are multiple people in a cramped, stuffy room; communication happens mostly through talking and gesticulating; there are grave misunderstandings. It’s a meeting!