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International Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day, and with the product design industry being heavily male dominated, we wanted to gain a women’s perspective into what it is like working in a design consultancy. With only having one female employee in the company, Louise Murphy our Sales and Marketing Executive, our Managing Director, Gethin Roberts, interviewed Louise and asked her a series of questions about her job role and what it involves , her understanding of product design and engineering, the marketing techniques she uses, and what she believes universities, employers or the industry as a whole could be doing to make product design more attractive for women as a potential career path?

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Bending the Rules of Manufacturing – Space Forge

 

Wales has become known for being a spearhead of innovation; as a result, disruptive companies have arisen within the area. Many of these companies are bending the rules of traditional manufacturing processes, meaning revolutionary progress can be made within their chosen sector. A company at the forefront of this movement is Space Forge.

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Our Top 3 Inventors of the 20th and 21st Century

In light of Inventors Day, we wanted to showcase some influential pioneers whose contribution to the development of design has helped shape our innovative epoch. The regeneration of ideas and perspectives have enabled many revolutionary creations to surface and through the use of these new inventions, capabilities for design have elevated to a completely new level. Innovators of the 20th and 21st centuries have laid down an exciting path, ready for our generation to follow and expand upon. With inventions such as the 3D printer, additive manufacturing processes are redefining the way we work. We have selected three inventors/inventive processes we feel deserve recognition.

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We Have Been Shortlisted!

We are delighted to announce we have been shortlisted in Design Drizzles ‘10 best product designers you should consider in 2022’. Design Drizzle has granted us 4th place in their international listing with the aim to educate and assist subscribers when searching for experienced product designers. Since refocussing our business at the back-end last year, our unique niche has really started to evolve; and, we are being globally recognised for our purpose-driven perspective. By shifting our efforts to the health, medical and consumer sectors, the type of the clients we are attracting enable us to deliver maximum impact through the development of new products.

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Our Top Three Pointless Smart-Devices

With this year drawing to a swift close, and with our refreshed objectives of purpose-driven product design, successfully executed, highlighted through this article are products that slightly contrast this intention. Connecting a device to an application certainly has its perks, however, the question has to be asked when observing some of these devices, is this additional feature completely necessary? Its seems as if many new ‘smart-devices ‘have been created simply for the sake of it and that the addition of an application adds very little value or purpose to product.

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Interactive Guides to Help Tackle Product Development Barriers

A product design journey can be challenging, barriers are present throughout that can be hard to conquer. Approaching a team of experts can also seem daunting when explaining your ideas and transforming your passions into a product. We understand that these passions are personal and exposing them to a group of people can be one of the hardest hurdles to overcome. Our aim is to build our clients’ confidence up to a point where they feel like they understand key considerations at the start of their journey so that they can navigate their project and desired outcome assuredly. To enable this, we have created four interactive guides covering the topics we believe assemble the backbone of a successful design project.

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Sign-up, sign-up!

We have just relaunched our newsletter full of engaging, interactive content for everyone involved in our ITERATE community. The aim of this newsletter is not to bombard our subscribers with promotional content but to create a space where useful information, exciting updates and exclusive worksheets are made available to our users. We want to create a hub for our audience where they can become inspired, build up conversations around their projects, and engage with one another through sharing product design journeys and ideas.

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ITERATE takes on Movember

This month the team at ITERATE are taking part in Movember, an annual event that takes place in the month of November and includes growing a moustache in order to raise funds for men’s health. This year, we have decided to focus on men’s mental health, a topic the team feel really passionate about generating awareness around. With the design engineering sector being heavily male orientated, we feel obliged to use the platform of Movember to show case our support and raise as much funds as possible to help this fantastic organization.

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We are Excited to Welcome Louise Murphy to ITERATE

I am thrilled to be starting a new venture with ITERATE Design + Innovation as their Marketing & Sales Executive. I am really excited to take on this role and make it my own through a new marketing strategy that has an engaging and creative edge. Most of my previous experience has been within sales, so the marketing aspect of this position will be a fantastic challenge for me. However, through meeting the friendly and motivated team, I believe I will be supported and inspired every step of the way!

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New Junior Design Engineer Joins ITERATE

Having followed the work that ITERATE Design + Innovation have produced since starting university in 2017, I am delighted to join such an amazing team as a Junior Product Design Engineer. I feel incredibly lucky and grateful to be given this opportunity straight out of university, having graduated from the MSc Product Design course at Cardiff Metropolitan University this year.  I also completed my undergraduate degree in BSc Product Design (Hons) at Cardiff Met and absolutely loved my time there.

 

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