Q & A with Robert Fabricant, frog’s VP of creative

Project Mwana is a mobile service that delivers HIV lab results in real time to rural clinics. It is also a messaging platform between clinics and community health workers to ensure that results are communicated directly to mothers. Project Mwana is currently serving as a demonstration project for a new approach to collaborative design to enhance the use of real-time data within UNICEF.

What was the spark that led UNICEF to engage with frog?

The Storz Medical Modulith SLK Inline Lithotripter crushes kidney stones inside the patient’s body by using acoustic pressure pulses. The Modulith SLK Inline was developed with particular attention to the demands of modern hospitals and their need for great mobility and versatile deployment.

Credits: frog
Contact: Jaleen Francois: jaleen.francois@frogdesign.com

Despite an executive mandate to build the user-experience capability, it is impossible to build momentum within GE without creating value directly with the individual businesses. This strategy developed in parallel with executing a series of pilot projects that apply user-experience thinking to high-profile software applications.

Project Mwana is a mobile service that delivers HIV lab results in real time to rural clinics. It is also a messaging platform between clinics and community health workers to ensure that results are communicated directly to mothers. Project Mwana is currently serving as a demonstration project for a new approach to collaborative design to enhance the use of real-time data within UNICEF.

The Virtuo SmartJuke is an in-venue entertainment platform for interactive social, music and game play. The classic jukebox experience has been updated with current technology, enabling access to millions of songs and becoming part of an ecosystem of other connected devices and services.

Credits: frog
Contact: Jaleen Francois: jaleen.francois@frogdesign.com

Revolver is a small, portable consumer-grade wind turbine for charging mobile devices and other personal electronics when off the grid. Transported in a discreet, slender tube, Revolver is quickly and easily set up. It can generate up to 35 watts of power, enough to keep a laptop charged or to recharge a phone, camera and other mobile devices simultaneously.

Credits: frog
Contact: Jaleen Francois: jaleen.francois@frogdesign.com

EverGEN™ solar lights are a complete off-grid lighting system in a single, compact package. They provide a flexible, cost-efficient alternative to traditional public lighting systems that require trenching and have large carbon footprints. It combines a solar panel, batteries and powerful LED illumination that can be installed in under 30 minutes.

Credits: frog
Contact: Jaleen Francois: jaleen.francois@frogdesign.com

Project Mwana is a mobile service that delivers HIV lab results in real time to rural clinics. It is also a messaging platform between clinics and community health workers to ensure that results are communicated directly to mothers. Project Mwana is currently serving as a demonstration project for a new approach to collaborative design to enhance the use of real-time data within UNICEF.

Credits: frog and UNICEF Tech4Dev Group
Corporate Sponsor: UNICEF
Contact: Jaleen Francois:  jaleen.francois@frogdesign.com

Ecomagination.com is a daily briefing on the global sustainable infrastructure landscape. It is a digital magazine featuring original editorial content highlighting the stories of the entrepreneurs, businesses and game-changers in this space. It is also home to a digital portfolio of GE’s ecomagination-certified products.

Credits: frog
Contact: Jaleen Francois: jaleen.francois@frogdesign.com

Bloomberg’s first-ever one-page global corporate website is built on the idea that nothing communicates data like data itself. The site visualizes every quantifiable aspect of the company to the press, new recruits and general business users. Data from all Bloomberg businesses have equal footing on this live-streaming tapestry of data.

Credits: frog
Contact: Jaleen Francois: jaleen.francois@frogdesign.com