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Fantastic piece on the reintroduction of wolves and how they changed the landscape, the rivers, and the behaviour of surrounding animals in Yellowstone National Park. This provides further evidence that all life forms play a significant role in shaping the world we live in and as humans we need to be conscious of our footprint. Read more here.

Thank you Rob for sharing!

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. ~ Francis Bacon
Have a great Friday 🙂

A few recent pieces related to design thinking and health care:
Design thinking is key to preparing doctors and improving health care, Medicine X speakers say…read more.
Learning how to use design thinking to improve the patient experience…read more.
Making design thinking a part of medical education…read more.
How we apply design thinking…read more.

Sweet. Social. Impact. Community. Check out the HiVE.

Tim Brown (IDEO) talks on the role of design thinking in health care.
Download the Human-Centered Design Toolkit.
Key points for me:
The ability to hold opposing constraints in our heads to create new ideas.
The point of convergence between desirability, economic viability, and technological feasibility.
Questions:
How do we do more with less?
How do we make health a life skill?
How do we create a society actively engaged in their own welfare?
How might we make design thinking a tool for everyone in health care?
How can we improve the quality of the patient experience?
How might we improve access to safe drinking water for the world’s poorest people and at the same time stimulate innovation amongst local water providers?
Start with Humans. Understanding motivations and aspirations.
Evaluate the Design.
Nudging towards new behaviours.
Designing new Systems as opposed to the magic bullet.
From consumption to participation.
Moving from thinking about what to build…to building in order to think…using prototyping to move our ideas forward quickly.
Change by design. 🙂

Pulse (4K) from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

I run towards the cloudburst
and throw myself to the wind
To hear, to feel
The pure pulse.

Coding! The language that should be mandatory for all children to learn! Finland is taking the lead on this movement. What I appreciate most is that you can program the robot to fart and dance. Does it get any better?! Need one!

It shouldn’t even be a question.
You wake up.
You put on your cape.
And you rock on with your bad self!
That easy.