by Dr. Martha Hall | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog, Featured
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,...
by Dr. Martha Hall | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog, Featured
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...
by Dr. Martha Hall | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog, Featured
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...
by Dr. Martha Hall | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog, Featured
If you’re going to build something, you have to make sure it works. At this point in my Design Process series, we have empathized with our stakeholders, defined our problem, brainstormed, and prototyped. Now we’ve got a solid design that, we think, meets the...
by Dr. Martha Hall | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog, Featured
In part 4 of our series, I’ll discuss one of my favorite phases of the whole process, the Prototyping stage. My team and I utilize a system called Rapid Prototyping, which is a lot like what it sounds like: creating prototypes very quickly after coming up...
by Dr. Martha Hall | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog, Featured
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...
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