App/UX Projects in Development
Below are the beginnings of two projects which excite me. They are both developed well beyond what you’ll find below, and thus will be updated shortly.
My goal is to take on two big issues in society - older adult quality of life (through increased fitness), and the planned obsolescence of consumer goods that’s become all too standard. While the design work is mine, UI is not my strength. My priority is to to solve problems through insights, research, focussed ideation, and effective information architecture. Stay tuned…
Older Adult Fitness Project: Get Stronger. Live Better.
The Challenge
As we age it gets harder and harder to regain our strength, flexibility, and balance if they have been lost. This leads an ever more diminished quality of life as we lose our ability to do activities we once took for granted.
The Goal
To create the most efficient, motivating, research-driven fitness program focussed on helping older adults overcome the barriers to getting active again.
Indisposable - A Critical Tool for Fighting Waste
The Challenge
Our planet’s resources - not to mention its inhabitants - can no longer afford planned obsolescence. I want to start a user-up technology-based approach to applying pressure on manufacturers to change their ways. First up: large appliances.
Every year an incredible amount of waste is created by the disposal of fixable appliances. Why? In part because manufacturers make parts prohibitively expensive and difficult to repair. With some goods - such as automobiles - there is an incredible complexity which makes repairs costly and difficult. This isn’t the same with all categories, however.
If you’ve read the rest of this site, you may not be surprised to know that I fix my own appliances. I thus have intimate knowledge of how simple parts cheaply made lead to massive machines being thrown away rather than repaired. That fridge or stove from 40 years ago that’s still chugging along? Back when large appliances were classified as “durable goods”? It contains many of the same basic parts that now fail after 5-8 years, plus of course an often poorly-built control panel.
The Goal
Through a combination of consumer-provided data, and legislation for parts sales to be made public, I want to put pressure on manufacturers to change their ways. We’re at a point with our planet where failing to spend an extra 63 cents on bearings to prevent 120 lbs of waste is no longer acceptable.
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