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Customize. 25 Beautiful Clean Fonts Perfectly Matching a Minimalist Design. Diabetes Burnout. Heena vyas / Pinterest. An introduction to personas and how to create them. Written by Tina Calabria, published March 2nd, 2004 Categorised under: articles, intranets, usability & information architecture, websites.

An introduction to personas and how to create them

Www.usability.gov/templates/wireframes.pdf. The rising risk of electronic medical records. It was a low-tech burglary.

The rising risk of electronic medical records

No one thought that it would blossom into a high-tech security breach. All it took was a rock -- a simple, inanimate, probably centuries-old rock. An enterprising thief picked it up, cocked his arm and tossed it through the window of a Sutter Health office building in Sacramento, Calif. It couldn't have been easier. The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams. Every Web team has its own take on dividing up roles and responsibilities and implementing processes for design and development.

The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams

Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I’ve encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. High blood pressure (hypertension): Causes. Symptoms, Diagnosis & Monitoring of Diabetes. According to the latest American Heart Association's Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics, about 6 million people 18 years and older in the United States have type 2 diabetes and do not know it.

Symptoms, Diagnosis & Monitoring of Diabetes

Often type 1 diabetes remains undiagnosed until symptoms become severe and hospitalization is required. Left untreated, diabetes can cause a number of health complications. That's why it's so important to both know what warning signs to look for and to see a health care provider regularly for routine wellness screenings. Symptoms. Superfoods. Card Sorting: How Many Users to Test. When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods. Patienteducation.stanford.edu/research/diabquest.pdf. 10 mobile health diabetes management companies. Mathew discusses LifeScan's prototype iPhone BGM app in 2009 In early 2009 at an iPhone 3.0 launch event, Apple demonstrated how a LifeScan blood glucose meter could connect to the iPhone.

10 mobile health diabetes management companies

Anita Mathew from LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company, demonstrated the prototype iPhone application that would let users upload glucose readings from their connected blood glucose monitors direclty to their iPhone. Www.nhssurveys.org/Filestore//documents/Diabetes_key_findings_rpt.pdf. Diabetes Software. Advancements in technology will continue to help us improve our monitoring and control of diabetes.

Diabetes Software

Diabetes software continues to get better and better and incorporate these advancements, such as the smartphone market. We have listed a number of diabetes related software programs below, including smartphones, desktop and online software. If you know of any other useful software for people with diabtes, please contact us. Online | Mobile | Mac & Windows | Mac Only | Windows Only Online Resources Diasend is an online data management system for uploading data from various glucose meters, Animas insulin pumps, and Descom CGMs.Lifebringer is a Diabetes management tool made for Diabetics that keeps track of blood sugar/glucose tests, A1C records, and test strips. Mobile Software Multiple Systems. TuDiabetes - a community of people touched by diabetes. Glucose Buddy - Diabetes Logbook Manager w/syncing, Blood Pressure, Weight Tracking. BGluMon - Blood Glucose Monitor.

Diamedic. National Diabetes Education Initiative (NDEI) - Clinical Literature Alerts. Cardiovascular effects of intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes Top The Look AHEAD Research Group.

National Diabetes Education Initiative (NDEI) - Clinical Literature Alerts

Cardiovascular effects of intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(2):145-154. No reduction in the composite CV primary outcome of first occurrence of death from CV causes, nonfatal MI, nonfatal stroke, or hospitalization for angina, was seen with intensive lifestyle intervention in the Look AHEAD study. n-3 fatty acids in patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors The Risk and Prevention Study Collaborative Group. n-3 fatty acids in patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors. Determinants of weight gain in the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes trial Fonseca V McDuffie R, Calles J, et al; for the ACCORD Study Group.

Randomized study comparing basal bolus with basal + correction insulin regimen for hospital management of patients with type 2 diabetes: Basal Plus Trial. Creative UI Design Examples for Great UX. UX (User Experience) is all those elements and factors related to the user's interaction with a particular environment or device which generate a positive or negative perception of the product, brand or device.

Creative UI Design Examples for Great UX

UX is subjective and focused on use. The standard definition of UX is "a person's perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service". These factors are related to design and usability, but also to the emotions and feelings generated in the user, accessibility, brand trust... Rosenfeld Media - Mental Models Book Site. There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds.

Rosenfeld Media - Mental Models Book Site

One of the best ways is to understand users’ reasons for doing things. User Research for Personas and Other Audience Models. By Steve Baty Published: April 27, 2009 “Personas are archetypal representations of audience segments, or user types, which describe user characteristics that lead to different collections of needs and behaviors.”

User Research for Personas and Other Audience Models

This is not going to be an article about personas or even what distinguishes a good persona from a bad one. Instead, this article is about the ingredients we can draw on when creating audience models and some alternative ways of communicating the results of an audience analysis. Agile UCD. Design Is a Process, Not a Methodology. By Pabini Gabriel-Petit Published: July 19, 2010 “In this installment of On Good Behavior, I’ll provide an overview of a product design process, then discuss some indispensable activities that are part of an effective design process….”

My last column, “Specifying Behavior,” focused on the importance of interaction designers’ taking full responsibility for designing and clearly communicating the behavior of product user interfaces. At the conclusion of the Design Phase for a product release, interaction designers’ provide key design deliverables that play a crucial role in ensuring their solutions to design problems actually get built. 8 Things You Should Be Doing in Your UX Practice, but Probably Aren’t. By Paul J. Sherman Published: July 19, 2009 “Here are 8 things you should be doing to improve and grow in your professional practice, but that you’re probably not doing—or not doing enough.” Let me get a bit meta with you right at the top. This month’s column is more than a touch formulaic.