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Lean Customer Discovery Needs Design Research

Published: June 10, 2014 (Updated: June 10, 2014) in Entrepreneurship, Health Tech, Lean LaunchPad, NYU ITP, Social Impact, Social Technologies, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Lean UX by Jen van der Meer.

When you are in a startup, under the gun, trying to execute – how do you find time for empathy? Lean launchpad simulates entrepreneurship by requiring founders to get out of the building…and into their customer’s world. Teams succeed when they start talking to people, and find the magic in actually validating their hypotheses with […]

Disrupting the Self : The Mindfulness Continuum

Published: July 11, 2013 (Updated: March 31, 2014) in Health Tech, Open Data, Open Innovation, Mindfulness, Quantified Self by Jen van der Meer.

At Startupfest Montreal at the invitation of curator extraordinaire Alistair Croll and his amazing sister Rebecca Croll. Tomorrow’s discussion: Disrupting the Self: Lifelogging, Wearable Computing and Society. I promise a deep, context setting and likely provocative discussion with Dulcie Madden, one of the founders of Rest Devices – who provide “human centered devices that make […]

NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 9

Published: April 15, 2013 (Updated: March 31, 2014) in Clean Tech, Health Tech, NYU ITP, Systems Thinking by Jen van der Meer.

The power to transcend paradigms: don’t forget to keep yourself unattached in the arena of paradigms. Preparation for concept development: Now that you have identified a problem, how will you solve it? Who will your solution address? What levers do you need to pull?

NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 7

Published: April 8, 2013 (Updated: March 31, 2014) in Clean Tech, Health Tech, NYU ITP, Systems Thinking by Jen van der Meer.

Bodies and Buildings: April 8 The mindset or paradigm out of which the system – its goals, power structure, rules, its culture-arises. Reading for next week: Pick any of these architectural “facsicles” – they are delicious. Assignment for next week to prepare for final concept presentation: Concept source and exploration: What part of the system […]

NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 4

Published: February 25, 2013 (Updated: March 27, 2014) in Clean Tech, Health Tech, NYU ITP, Systems Thinking by Jen van der Meer.

To prepare for next week’s assignment, read: Protecting Patient Privacy: Strategies For Regulating Electronic Health Records Exchange NYCLU, read Part 2 and Conclusion Bodies and buildings nyu itp 2 25 2013 from Jen van der Meer Optional: Rekindling the Patient Privacy Debate. When Patients Tell Their Stories, Their Health May Improve. Wit. By […]

NYU ITP: Bodies and Buildings, Class 3

Published: February 11, 2013 (Updated: March 27, 2014) in Clean Tech, Health Tech, NYU ITP, Systems Thinking, Quantified Self, Todd Park by Jen van der Meer.

Class assignment for 2/25/2013 Read: The quantified self, Counting every moment. The Economist, March 3, 2012. Additional videos from Todd Park Todd Park: Opening Data for Social Change Bodies and buildings nyu itp 2 11 2013 from Jen van der Meer Optional: Social fMRI: Investigating and shaping social mechanisms in the real world. Nadav Aharonya, Wei […]

NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 2

Published: February 4, 2013 (Updated: March 27, 2014) in Clean Tech, Health Tech, NYU ITP, Systems Thinking, Obesity Epidemic by Jen van der Meer.

Systems Thinking and The Obesity Epidemic Bodies and buildings nyu itp 2 4 13 from Jen van der Meer Class assignment for 2/11/2013 Read: Networked Medicine: From Obesity to the “Diseasome”. Editorial by Albert-László Barabási, Ph.D. NEJM. July 26,2007. Optional: Deeper Reading: Original Study by Christakis and Fowler: The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years. NEJM. July 26, […]