The Journal of mHealth Vol 2 Issue 1 (February 2015) | Page 22

Industry News

UK Design Council Recognises
Healthcare Design Among its 70
Ones to Watch

Showcased as part of the Design Council’s 70th anniversary
celebrations, the designers — each chosen for an individual
product or project of outstanding design ingenuity and vision
— have been selected from hundreds of entrants.
The huge range of submissions covered design disciplines from
furniture design, architecture and jewellery design, to material
experimentation and app development. Bound together by the
common theme of designing for the future, and many of them
designing to improve people’s lives, they reflect the values that
Design Council has stood by throughout its 70-year history.
Health experts increasingly recognise the need to design for
health and wellbeing, and the following inspirational designs
have all been developed to help members of society lead their
lives with more ease and efficiency.
Hyn Kyung Lee has designed Future Active Wear Collection for Older
Adults, a collection of fashion garments designed to encourage
the wearer to lead a healthy and active lifestyle by improving
muscle strength and flexibility by incorporating gentle exercise
functions directly into these garments.
Another design helping the elderly is Hand-Healthy by Simon Kinneir, a behavioral and product invention for people with osteoarthritis, designed to help the user engage better with their jointhealth and exercise through cooking.
My Med by Matthew Cardell-Williams is a system providing a
solution to medication management straight from the pharmacy,
aimed at elderly people with limited dexterity, sensory perception
and suffering from degenerative mental illnesses.
Emily Tulloh’s Summerbug Trike provides back support for disabled
children, allowing them the mobility and freedom of riding a
bike that will adjust as they grow.
Filling a clear gap in the market, Matthew Thompson has created
prototypes for an amazing low-cost, low-noise, lightweight prosthetic hand with improved battery life.

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Also in the realm of technology, Claire Jeffries has designed

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an app called Fred, which helps young children learn the basics
of first aid.
Musical Memory Box by Chloe Meineck gives much needed familiarity
and comfort to people with dementia, at an unsettling time in their
lives. The design makes use of the profound effect music can have
on people with this type of illness. The box contains objects chosen by the owner to represent friends, family and key memories.
The Iungo Kettle by James Molkenthin gives blind and partially sighted
people assurance, control and normality in their home. The Iungo
Kettle communicates via Bluetooth with a smartphone app, which
measures the temperature and volume of water in the kettle, and
sends push-notifications to the user when it has boiled.
CONTACT by Felix Faire is an audio interface where any physical interaction with a table or hard surface generates vibrations
that are then transformed into an acoustic and optical performance. In CONTACT, the technology remains hidden so that
the user can focus purely on sensations.
John Mathers, Design Council Chief Executive, comments: “We
are proud to be marking 70 years of the Design Council in 2015
with the exemplary ‘Ones to Watch’ line up of new designers.
Ones to Watch offers an exciting vision of our future, with fresh
ideas from emerging designers that address important contemporary living challenges from sustainability to health, education
to city living and simple but effective ways to improve everyday
life. The variety of the designs illustrates the diverse nature of
ideas coming out of the UK, and we hope to see these designers
producing more exciting work over the coming years.”
To view the full line up on the Design Council website please
visit: www.designcouncil.org.uk/projects/ones-watch n