February Picks: 🔑 Escaping Drake Mansion, Inbox Productivities and some readings

The second month of the year may be known as the shortest month which can only mean one thing: a more jam packed month! The team at Sixty Two has been hustlin’ at full force, working from the comforts of our own homes, physically distancing from one another. That said, we try our best to include virtual team sessions whenever we can. This month, the team bonded within the walls of ‘The Drake Mansion’.

If you have been following us on our social media, you would know that our team did a virtual escape room adventure. Virtual because it was hosted online from AirBnb Experiences where she set up the stage and narrated the story. It was a good session of unlocking doors with word puzzles, guessing games, and mind bending riddles.

Link to the AirBnb Experience

Could you guess what the team is doing here?

Lots of thinking faces

If you are looking for team activities to spice up your remote team working spirits, we definitely do recommend this escape room activity. Or, if you do have a few recommendations for us, drop us a line. We’d love to hear what activities you have in mind!

12, 13, 14islands

Wanted to take this opportunity to commend the fun and whimsy experiments coming from 14islands. Their recent experiment was on rendering blobs online where you can adjust the texture such as surface material, number of waves, and the roughness of the blob. It’s super fun, and I got extremely mesmerized with the colour selections and how calming it moves and floats in my computer screen. They have different textures that you can get started with, the ‘Discobrain’ which is this psychedelic fusion of colours, the ‘T-1000’ a metallic blob of some heavy silver sulphur content. My personal favourite is the ‘Blackhole’ a minimalistic glossy blob of black that just exudes elegance.

Clean Energy by CFS

Commonwealth Fusion Systems
I don’t know about you, but I always get excited for what MIT brings up to the table. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is one of them. The team was formed out of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center to leverage the decades of fusion research combined with the innovation and speed of the private sector. The initiative in itself is pretty cool, but the website is super dope! If you’re a geek like I am, you’ll love the clean lines, ethereal photographs, and the technical drawings used in this website.

For the productivity ninjas out there!

Here’s one for you. Drag turns your email inbox into your fun kanban board task organizer. Organize away with this chrome extension! You can also set shared spaces to allow for collaborations. Pst, I’m going to try to convince the team in Sixty Two to start using this. Let’s see if that does any good ;)

Image courtesy of Fast Company

Read: Designing and improving the UX of digital products for healthcare

Image courtesy of Editor X

An article for you by EditorX on digital products in the healthcare space. The team at Sixty Two actually have tackled a case study on healthcare before, the article from EditorX actually manages to highlight the insights and findings we’ve encountered when working on the case study.

[TL;DR] Quick takeaways I get from reading the article:

1. Healthcare remains a complex problem because of its nature — technical, scientific, and deals with privacy and ethics.
2. Unlike industries with high adoption rates, the healthcare sector needs rounds and rounds of consideration before a feature could be launched. This goes back to its nature of dealing with privacy and ethics. One wrong move, it could be a person’s life you’re dealing with. Iterations need to be carefully considered.
3. Applies to most cases — simplicity is key. Most times, we get too caught up with technology. In healthcare, tech is the enabler. Doctors and nurses need to continuously focus on the patients with care and love, we shouldn’t be burdening them with more barriers in admin work. In other words, sometimes the solution might not be tech-related; could be systems, processes or framework.
4. The similarities between ‘design research’ and the ‘scientific method’ are not that far. With design research you will find a hypothesis and test it in real life. So in a way, healthcare can leverage on this existing knowledge.
5. The strategic approach is highly required. “We need strategies to help break down obstacles, stay motivated, and have impact in the long run.”

Read it yourself here. Give us a shoutout if you like these type of summary content, we’ll make sure we include more of these in our future picks!

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