Writing

Writing helps me distill my thoughts and make sense of my work, my life, and the intersection therein.

A few key posts from Medium:

• Back of Design, Front of Design: A new way to think about different designers’ strengths

• Draw your problem: Your hand, a pen and some paper are your greatest problem-solving tools

• Draw your goals

• How designers make hospitals awesome

• Blood and Barbed Wire: Visualizing a friend’s complex health history

• Show, don’t tell: how visuals improve healthcare visits

• Things I tell people who want to become a designer in healthcare

• Visualizing symptoms, sensations and stories: trends in how people visualize their health

• See all of my Pictal Health & health visualization posts on Medium >
  

Older posts from Sensical:

This blog was especially focused on how I could use my design skills to understand, grapple with, and communicate about my own health difficulties.

• How visualizing health problems could help solve medical mysteries

• Medical history timeline: a tool for doctor visit storytelling

• Illustrating symptoms and their contexts

• Picturing my health with a vibrance map

• On speaking up

• How my HCI graduate education prepared me to be an Interaction Designer

• See all Sensical posts >