This fall, a graduate of Michigan State University successfully begins a career as a user experience analyst for a large company. She has already interned there, so she knows the people and the work, ...

When trying to solve a business problem, many corporate teams rely on one type of logic. The result: instead of collaborating, the members end up in a power struggle over whose idea will win. It’s ...

Imagine it’s 7:00 a.m. Your phone, lying quietly on your bedside table, suddenly lights up, and your alarm rings. You sit up, turn off the alarm, and pick up your phone. Before you fully awaken or ...

Figure 1. How do you get business ideas when those who are successful are too busy to help? Many digital health innovators struggle to get access to doctors to validate their business ideas because ...

Recently, I worked with a health insurance company to build a custom solution for care managers. Our key stakeholder (product owner) at the company had a nursing background and was excited to work ...

Text readability is often an accessibility obstacle in both real and digital worlds. I once got an invitation to an event that looked like Figure 1. Figure 1. Low-contrast text: Hard to see, hard to ...

Curiosity is powerful. Psychologists tell us that curiosity enhances intelligence and increases perseverance. Being curious propels us to deeper engagement, superior performance, and more meaningful ...

In a broad sense, artificial intelligence (AI) uses computers and machines to simulate human decision-making and thinking. More modern definitions of AI describe it as the ability of a machine to ...

We invite you to visualize the story in the above graphic (Figure 1). You answer your house door to find your friend sopping wet from a surprise rainstorm. Would you act as if the situation were ...

Augmented reality, or AR, is becoming mainstream. Sources from TechCrunch and ABI Research to Business Insider state that the industry of AR and VR (virtual reality) combined will reach more than $100 ...

Figure 1. Memoir monopoly is a highly flexible rehabilitation game platform for elderly people living with dementia. (Credit: Graywhale Design) According to a report by Alzheimer’s Disease ...

Machine learning (ML) practitioners face a growing problem: Products and services increasingly generate and rely on larger, more complex datasets. As datasets grow in breadth and volume, the ML models ...