Tag: Health

Designing Innovation: Stakeholder Mapping, Interviews & Project Planning

Identify Stakeholders Our team started to map out our initial list stakeholders and came up with an initial brainstorm or “map” of people we believe would have a vested interest in any solution that addressing food security. Since that meeting, we met via Google Hangouts to identify more people to interview and determine what questions…… Continue reading Designing Innovation: Stakeholder Mapping, Interviews & Project Planning

Designing Innovation: Affinity Clustering and Teams

Identify and focus on a problem This week, we spent some time in class mapping the multitude of problems and pain points within healthcare and the health and wellness of people/communities. This process is known as affinity clustering; a way of sorting items based on similarity. It minimizes the overwhelm of big ideas, problems or…… Continue reading Designing Innovation: Affinity Clustering and Teams

Designing Innovation: Designing the Anti “Social” Network”

Today was my first class in the IMFA (Interactive Master of Fine Arts) program. Designing Innovation is being taught by Professor Lien Tran and we were presented with a design brief titled, Designing the Anti “Social” Network. This will be our first project. Project Objective We currently live in an era in which we spend…… Continue reading Designing Innovation: Designing the Anti “Social” Network”

Why I Chose Maryland University of Integrative Health

There are many places to learn and get training to become a nutritionist or health coach; loads of places in fact. I know because I spent hours and months of research to find the right place for me. A major factor in why I chose Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) to pursue an M.S.…… Continue reading Why I Chose Maryland University of Integrative Health