Charmr: Adaptive Path diabetes management design concept
Blogger Amy Tenderich posted her “Open Letter to Steve Jobs” in April, pleading with the Apple CEO to apply some of that company’s design expertise to improving the lives of the 20 million American diabetics who rely on technology to manage their condition every day. Amy asked for better products for diabetics, but we recognized that those products had to add up to an experience that would satisfy their emotional and psychological needs. So we set out to develop an experience design concept that addressed user behavior and psychology as well as current technological trends to project how insulin pumps and glucose meters might work five years from now.
Taste: A Life in Wine (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly
In an era when fine dining meant having coffee with your meal, Terlato was working to get a wine bottle on every table. In this breezy memoir with recipes, Terlato recounts his path, growing up in 1930s Italian-American Brooklyn and working at his father’s liquor store, where he was drawn to the wines-an interest that led led him into distribution. While scouting Europe for wines marketable to Americans, rubbing elbows with top vintners and getting in on key t (more…)
