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…
Cambridge Design Partnership is working with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on an innovative monitoring system designed to stop wildlife poachers in their tracks.Instant Detect 2.0 is an innovative satellite connected camera and sensor system that can be deployed in the most remote and inaccessible locations to provide sensor…
The Internationale Funkausstellung IFA in Berlin is a showcase for consumer electronics innovation and if you’ve never been before it can be overwhelming, over 1,800 exhibitors from more than 100 countries. So we’ve reflected here on what stood out to us and summarised 5 key themes: Smarter Homes: Who is…
Many still hold the outdated belief that China’s expertise lies solely in manufacturing, and the ability to copy other people’s innovations. On a recent trip to China, I saw how this couldn’t be more wrong. China is poised for success – it has all the pieces in place, the manpower…