Celebrating Collaborators: Marjan Ashrafi

Celebrating Collaborators: Marjan Ashrafi

Marjan Ashrafi, designer, and Dr. Martha Hall collaborator, recently did something that no one else has ever been able to achieve, as far as we know: She knitted Kevlar™ Working as part of the team at the University of Delaware Innovation Health & Design Lab,...
Celebrating Collaborators

Celebrating Collaborators

It Takes a Village: The Myth of the Lone Inventor Making a difference through invention and design is not just my calling, it’s the delight of my life and a true privilege. Whether helping to protect first responders or at-risk infants, innovation in wearable...
Part 6 of the Design Process Series: Assessment 

Part 6 of the Design Process Series: Assessment 

  Here we are at the last step of my Design Process series! Thanks for sticking with me the whole way through.   By now, our design has been through its paces: we’ve collected our data, defined our problem, let ourselves imagine all the possible ways of...
Part 6 of the Design Process Series: Assessment 

Part 3 of the Design Process Series: Ideation

  Welcome to part 3 of my Design Process series. If you haven’t already, check out Part 1 and 2 first!  We have engaged with our end-user, caregivers, and other stakeholders at this point in the process and collected the data. We have sorted and sifted through that...