Tag: Human Centred Design
Healthy Home, Healthy Self: A New Frontier for Wellbeing
Our homes are becoming the epicentre of health and wellbeing, reshaping how we live, rest, and recover. This article explores how indoor environments, restful living, and personalised care at home are transforming everyday life, uncovering opportunities for innovative design to redefine the home as a catalyst for healthier living.
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Automation and Robotics: Transforming the Healthcare Journey
Robotics and automation are transforming healthcare, offering greater precision and efficiency. Beyond technical innovation, how do these advancements improve patient care and outcomes? And what steps can stakeholders take to overcome barriers and integrate these technologies for meaningful change?
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CleanTech Innovation: Building Landscapes for Change
CleanTech products, services, and processes are decidedly making their way into consumer markets. But beyond environmental benefits, what lifestyle advantages does CleanTech offer? And how can governments and companies encourage consumers to embrace these alternatives for lasting change?
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Understanding Moments of Change to Drive Sustainable Behaviours
Across the consumer sector, leading brands are now implementing sustainable goals into their product lines, but the big question remains – how do you get consumers to engage with them?
At PDD, we are currently examining the barriers that prevent consumers from embracing lasting, sustainable behaviour change and the way consumer brands can overcome the forces at play.
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Design for Repair: Driving more sustainable behaviours
Electrical waste (e-waste) continues to be a growing problem globally and is estimated to increase by at least 2 million tonnes per year, to reach 120 million tonnes by 2050 if both manufactures and consumers fail to take action. In July 2021, the UK Government put into force a new ecodesign requirement for electrical products sold in […]
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The Voltcraft VC 891 wins a Red Dot award 2023
We are very proud to announce that the Voltcraft VC 891, designed in collaboration with Conrad Electronic, has won the prestigious Red Dot award 2023 in the category of Product Design.
Recognised by the jury for its high standards of functionality and quality, the design delivers precision, reliability and ruggedness in a high-voltage environment and a seamless user experience in a context where safety always comes first.
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Infant Nutrition… Best for baby, best for planet
We are seeing a rise in baby formulas and foods with some serious eco credentials, expanding the market offering of plant-based and free-from alternatives within this sector. This new range that follows stage-based nutritional standards, is aligning with the values of parents on both nutrition and climate change. So, what’s driving this new subcategory? As is often the case, several forces are at play when new product variants start to emerge, here’s some of the key drivers we have observed.
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Refills and Dispensing – Designing a more Sustainable Future.
Today, consumer enthusiasm for packaging-free and refillable options continues to grow. Yet, despite the reassuring signs that the current pandemic has not hindered consumers’ appetite for sustainable practices, the wide adoption of refills and dispensing models continues to present significant challenges.
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Grounded in reality – the true value of Human-Centred Research
When was the last time you pulled when it said ‘push’?
Every day, we are surrounded by products and services that somehow, don’t work as we expect them to. Whether it is an ‘impossible-to-follow’ set of instructions or the ‘push’ sign on a handle that clearly invites you to pull, people are constantly forced to develop workarounds to compensate for poor design.
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The Philips Water Dispenser wins a Red Dot Award 2021
We were delighted to see the Philips Water Dispenser win at this year’s Red Dot Design Award 2021 in the category of Product Design, one of the world’s most recognised and sought-after seals of quality for good design.
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The OLAV Chefmesser wins a Red Dot Award
We are delighted to announce that Olav’s Chefmesser has won the prestigious Red Dot Design Award as an outstanding example of Product Design. Das Chefmesser, an innovative Chef Knife, is the latest in a series of collaborations between PDD and Olav – a visionary German startup that is transforming the market for cookware in Europe and beyond.
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Understanding The Healthcare Consumer
Over the past year, health has become the focal point of our lives in a way that few of us could have predicted, nor ignored. Just like consumer culture transformed our societies two centuries ago, health and health-related issues now shape our identity, our lifestyle, our perspectives and importantly our aspirations for the future.
In this article, Emma Dickinson – Consultant, Research Recruitment at PDD, explores people’s evolving attitudes in healthcare and how healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers can make the most of that opportunity to deliver a compelling, engaging experience for all.
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The Beauty of Responsibility.
Design can be a powerful driver for change – it can inspire new behaviours and drive us to think and act more responsibly. But to innovate ourselves to a better future, a puritanical focus on reducing impact will not do.
In this article, Marko Plevnik, Principal – Industrial Design at PDD, reflects on the importance of character in good design and the need to create meaningful experiences that are emotionally rewarding and encourage people to do the right thing.
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OLAV wins German Design Award 2021
OLAV wins German Design Award We are delighted to announce that our work with OLAV, the German-Austrian cookware startup, has been recognized by the German Design Award committee for outstanding design. The German Design Award honours innovative, pioneering products in international design. OLAV, with a vision to rethink cooking by putting people first and their […]
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E-learning programme powered by Skillsoft and PDD
The online learning programme enables organisations to access various video-based courses and effective tools needed to discover and define opportunities, brainstorm, prototype and test solutions.
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Mash up: Human-Centred Design & Business Model Canvas
A few weeks ago I posted a mash-of Larry Keeley’s Ten Types of Innovation and Alexander Osterwalder’s and Yves Pigneur’s Business Model Canvas (BMC).
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A Doctor’s perspective on learning Human-Centred Design
During my internship with PDD, I participated in the LUMA Institute + PDD’s Human-Centred Design (HCD) for Innovation workshop that the PDD HCD team runs several times a year in London.
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Health, well-being and HUMIIN™ interactions at the International Home+ Housewares Show
Our friends at Intersection-inc. attended the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago, IL, and provided some insights into the hot topics and products from the show.
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