Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service in Healthcare
The Amazon Echo and Alexa voice service have been a hit in the consumer market with skills that help you order a pizza or call an Uber. Now with the introduction of the "KidsMD" skill,...
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Integrated Solution Providers: The Team Approach to Healthy IoT Projects
Firms with one specialization will sometimes subcontract skills they don’t have in-house, but that’s a different thing from a truly collaborative partnership among professionals with the autonomy to make the best decisions based on their...
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Five Criteria for Selecting a Healthcare IoT Solutions Provider
Success with IoT can be tricky. It is a constellation of complex technologies from which you need to pick, choose and customize to craft a product that can succeed. Many companies fail in their IoT...
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How the Internet of Things Changes Business Models
If you’re considering creating a connected product or service, the Internet of Things will have a profound impact on how your business creates and captures value.
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Project Management in the Healthcare Industry: A Risk Based Approach
One innovative approach to governance and project management is to tailor the type and level of management to the risk assessed for each project, avoiding the costs of treating all projects as though they carried...
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Four Enhancements We Want for the Amazon Echo
Our annual MacHack happened a few weekends ago and as always the teams at Macadamian put in 24 straight hours of hard work to bring some amazing ideas to life. This year many of the...
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Conducting Comparative Usability Tests
Additional variables must be controlled for in comparative testing that generally make it more challenging than traditional usability testing. These variables span planning, execution, and test analysis.
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Applying User Experience Principles to Alexa Skills
Crafting a voice controlled interface for our text message skill posed some interesting design hurdles. To have a truly successful skill, expect to commit some time to the wordsmithing that likely kept William Shakespeare up...
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Using Contextual Data in Connected Device Design
With more physical things being connected to the internet, the amount of data collected by these devices continues to grow. When designing an experience for an IoT device, considering context becomes increasingly important to avoid...
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Sending Error Logs using Docker, Vagrant and SumoLogic
The main goal was to stay as close to the production environment as possible to avoid “It works on my dev machine!” when it just crashes in production.
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The Power of Voice Interaction in Connected Products
The longer the fridge door is open, the more the animal speaks. I can only assume that my penguin is encouraging me to shut the fridge door, but since I don’t speak Japanese, this is...
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Structuring Multidisciplinary Software Teams
5 strategies we've learned from working with the biggest names in software for structuring multidisciplinary software teams to get amazing software out the door fast.
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Creating a New Alexa Skill
Over the last several weeks, we went through the entire process of designing and developing a new Alexa Skill for Amazon’s Echo and then submitting it for approval by Amazon. The skill in question? One...
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Achieving Interoperability in your Healthcare Organization
The challenge with integrating healthcare organizations is that they are just that – separate organizations. Each organization provides a healthcare service, but they provide that service using their own process.
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5 UX Research Blockades and How to Break Through
During the course of conducting your UX research, you will likely encounter one or more of these obstacles. Knowing that obstacles might provide additional insights and combined with keeping your eyes on the light at...
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