In 2019 the music festival industry experienced a sea change in their attitude to single-use plastic, with many large live events making the decision to ban it altogether. As the festival season draws to a close, CDP’s Matt Morris, mechanical engineer, sustainability expert and live music fan, looks at what…
Since being unveiled in 2015 Amazon’s dash buttons have drawn a lot of attention. Their premise is simple: to remove the tedious task of reordering household items and keep customers coming back to shop at Amazon. Consumers stick the brightly coloured buttons around their home and press when products are…
Could this technology enable new wearables and portable devices that offer high levels of adherence and measurement continuity?
Currently agriculture is facing challenges from many directions. Modern hyper-intensive farming (demanding the highest crop yield from monocultured crops with less regard for long-term fertility or ecosystem metrics) is interrelated with the great environmental threats; destabilising climate change, biodiversity, oceanic dead zones and poor global soil health. In turn these…
There is no doubt that User Experience (UX) is a hot topic throughout today’s design world. But how is the personal approach to product development affecting the field of healthcare? Lucy Sheldon, people-centered designer, and Andres Barrera, user experience designer, went along to the first ever User Centred Design (UXD)…
The challenges of bridging the ‘design transfer chasm’ are well known in the medical device industry. If your approach to design and innovation has not fully anticipated the intricacies of volume production in a regulated environment, then difficulties will arise when it is sent to your manufacturing partner to be…
Highlights from Martha's keynote talk centred on the belief that innovation happens where consumer insight, technology enablers and business opportunities coincide.
As you may have seen in the news recently, Unilever have bought the UK snack business Graze, well-known for their healthy-snack subscription service. Subscription is an example of a growing trend in e-commerce and a recent Mckinsey survey found that 15% of US online shoppers have signed up to an…
The Consumer Electronics Show 2019 in Las Vegas is the world’s largest gathering of future-facing technology. Here, CDP’s Tom Lawrie-Fussey, digital services specialist and Alan Cucknell, front end innovation leader, report back on the tech trends that every company needs to know about, now. With 4,500 exhibiting companies and 180,000…
Neil Campbell, CDP’s consumer technology business development leader, is freshly back from the Consumer Electronics Show 2019 in Las Vegas. Here, he reflects on the healthcare innovations there that caught his eye, from malaria-defying lightbulbs to DIY ultrasound scannersThe Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019 is a vast, raucous collection of…
Design Thinking is a popular approach to solving innovation challenges, but is it actually a flawed tool? And is there a better solution?
The Connected World Summit is a two-day festival of the connected technology industry and, with more than 2,500 industry leaders, tech innovators, decision makers and investors in attendance, I went along to see what was on offer this year. It’s a mark of just how important this area of technology has become…