MUJI Launches Three New Apps for the iPad and iPhone

Who needs iCal when Muji Calendar promises more legibility? Or Adobe Ideas, if MUJI Notebook picks up the slack with handwriting recognition and different paper grids? Or a calculator, clock, weather display, or a currency converter, when you’ve got MUJI to GO? Yes, MUJI, the darling of design lifestyle brands, has just launched three apps for the iPad and iPhone. We haven’t had our hands on them for very long, but if they’re anything like all the other Muji products we own and love, we won’t be disappointed. The launch is timely; we were just wondering how the famously “non-branded”brand’s simple treatment of everyday life would translate to the consumption and production of digital information. These apps may provide a partial answer, though like any new product, there will be kinks. No biggie&mdashlin true MUJI form, the apps are free or very nearly—the Notebook app coming in at $3.99. (more…)

Future Integrated Health Care Ecosystem

Trying to forecast the future of global healthcare is an ambitious undertaking, to say the least. Even trying to discuss the future of health insurance leads to heated debate and disagreement, as we’ve seen over the past few months. Not to be deterred, the team at Ergonomidesign took on this task, and created a short video outlining their vision of an Integrated Health Care Ecosystem . The good news for our readers is that in this future scenario there seems to be plenty of work for product and interaction designers, in addition to actual healthcare professionals. (more…)