How designers can help consumers look after their health

In this article, Fjord founder Mark Curtis looks at the opportunities and challenges of wearable health-monitoring technology and reaches the conclusion that the simple availability of data, in reality, massive amount of data about on single individual is not enough.The way that data is presented and integrated, in other words, the design of it, is extremely important to the user, for he has very little knowledge when it comes to reading and understanding the raw data – it needs to be explained and integrated, so the user can make the best use of it. And that task will fall on Service Designer.
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http://www.designweek.co.uk/industry-voice/how-designers-can-help-consumers-look-after-their-health/3037622.article