Archive for the 'Disruptive design' Category
Redesigning Earth.
June 10th, 2007One of the things we do as engineering psychologists is help predict the consequences of changes to existing systems, for example by creating Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA).
I thought I had pondered this kind of risk management on a very large scale until I heard NASA Administrator Michael Griffin’s comments about Global […]
Clever design = International intrigue
May 8th, 2007The Associated Press reported a story today that reminded me of the challenges one can face when introducing radically new designs to a naive user group.
A few years ago, the Canadian mint used a new technique to create a 25 cent coin featuring a red poppy inlay. The poppy flower is Canada’s symbol of Remembrance […]