NPR aired a story this morning in the business news on Morning Edition: Solving Health Care Problems By Design, an interview with Tim Brown of IDEO. I asked my partner to pay special attention because it introduced concepts of User Centered Design in a way that was understandable and easily accessible by regular people (non-designers). I thought it might be a good way to explain what it is that I do for a living and how important and useful “design thinking” can be.

I’ve had my toe in the social media pool for a while and the water feels fine. However, I’m always looking for shortcuts. Facebook is my primary arena right now and I feed my status updates to twitter via twitterfeed. I have been experiencing a bug in this process which double-posts to Twitter and is a little annoying. I’ve attempted to address this today by clearing out my twitterfeeds and starting over. In the process I’ve also added a feed from this blog to twitter. I’m still considering doing twitter for the chocolate business, but I’m not ready to commit yet…