By Craig Townsend, Director of Healthcare at 42T
This month, we wanted to explore the topic of inclusive design and most importantly, how some advances in technology are having a negative impact on aging populations.
Inclusive design should be at the forefront of everything we do and as professionals developing healthcare and life science products, our goal is to improve wellbeing. But are we actually making people more confused, leading to feelings of depression and isolation?
Read on to find out more ...
For International Women's Day this month, 42T's engineers and designers looked into what sports coaches, athletes and product manufacturers need to consider to make sport more equitable.
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Position: Product Designer
Joined the team in: November 2020
Specialism: Rob holds a first-class Masters in Product Design Engineering from Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow
Fun fact: Likes taking things apart and thinking about how they can be improved. Once got thousands of hits on his blog by fixing a classic toaster!
Find out more about Rob
25 years ago, our founders set up 42 Technology in honour of Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We've been solving highly challenging problems for clients ever since. We don't just solve the unsolvable through good engineering practice, we challenge the norms and preconceptions to make sure we find the best answers to the right questions.
Innovative product development can be a risky business. The Innovation Apple encourages innovators to bring the market and technology components of this process into balance, maximising chances of success.
Craig Townsend
Director of Healthcare