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August 5, 2020

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We represent a team of Product, Service and systems designers creating change through human-centered design.

Highlights from the Health Innovation Conference o

Highlights from the Health Innovation Conference organized by @idimakerere last year where we got to share some of our #designforhealth projects with health innovators in the country✨

Get in touch with us to collaborate and leverage Human-centred design to develop health solutions that respond to contextual challenges 💡

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#designforhealth #humancentereddesign #dwbafrica #dwbprojects #healthinnovation #productdesign #servicedesign

The SASA College of Industrial design is nothing b

The SASA College of Industrial design is nothing but a milestone for Uganda, in line with the country’s NDPIII strategy to increase production of locally manufactured exports.

Licensed by the National Council of Higher Education, SASA design academy is set to disrupt Uganda’s education system by equipping the next workforce generation with practical skills essential for industrial design.
The facility is equipped with a design studio, prototyping workshop, and accommodation for its students.
We’re proud of this accomplishment, and continue to collaborate with the institution in a bid to build design capacity in the country.

Cheers!

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#industrialdesign #productdesign #manufacturing #buyugandabuilduganda🇺🇬

With a wealth of designers in the country limited

With a wealth of designers in the country limited by standardization of their skills, so many talented youth remain underutilized in emerging opportunities🛠️

What exactly is the role of industrial design in the development of Uganda’s manufacturing industry….

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#industrialdesign #productdesign #manufacturing #buyugandabuilduganda🇺🇬

As we wrap up the year, a special shout out to our

As we wrap up the year, a special shout out to our amazing cohort of fellows that successfully completed the design fellowship with honors, and now represent DwB as Design associates😊

And to @adimaoz26 for co-ordinating key activities throughout the program.
Cheers!✨

A word from our designers and end users in Jinja t

A word from our designers and end users in Jinja that worked together to develop products and environmental modifications to address unintentional injuries among children under 5 in informal settlements.

Here’s to #humancentreddesign ✨

In the spirit of #design4health, @dwb_africa is ex

In the spirit of #design4health, @dwb_africa is exhibiting some recent projects that had the team leveraging design to address a spectrum of challenges within the health sector in developing countries.

A huge thank you to the organizers of the Health Innovation Conference led by the Academy for Health Innovation under @idimakerere ✨

We’re developing both product and service design

We’re developing both product and service design interventions, including this KMC chair we prototyped, built and tested together with our @tudelft interns and artisans in Kampala.

For more information about this and more of our work, feel free to reach out to us!
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#productdesign #humancentereddesign #dwbprojects #prototype #designforhealth

DwB has been exploring existing barriers to increa

DwB has been exploring existing barriers to increased KMC practice by directly engaging with mothers of preterm babies, previous KMC practitioners, and healthcare workers in order to design contextually relevant interventions to increase KMC adoption by mothers.
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#dwbprojects #humancentereddesign #designforhealth #maternalhealth

The @who defines Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) as ear

The @who defines Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) as early, continuous and prolonged skin-to-skin contact between a mother and preterm babies. The KMC practice has been shown to reduce the mortality risk of preterm and low birth weight infants by up to 40%. However, KMC is still not widely practiced in LMICs due to a number of limitations…
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#designforhealth #maternalhealth #dwbprojects #humancentereddesign

2022 interns Part 1 of Part 2😬: Sensei @merlijn

2022 interns Part 1 of Part 2😬: Sensei @merlijnn__ …. We really had a great time collaborating with the @tudelft students over the summer! These folks take rapid prototyping to a whole new level. What was the project?
💡Two clues…product design & maternal health.

Stay tuned for more project updates!
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#dwbafrica #dwbprojects #productdesign

2022 interns Part 1 of Part 2😬: Introducing @em

2022 interns Part 1 of Part 2😬: Introducing @emilewaterkeyn , one of the 2 Product Design Masters students from @tudelft that we had the pleasure of working with on an in-house project, and now one of our favorite product design Senseis!
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#dwbafrica #productdesign

2022 interns Part 1: We have the pleasure of worki

2022 interns Part 1: We have the pleasure of working with @adimaoz26 , a product designer and International development Masters student from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel with a passion for creating value using sustainable materials and experience working in various international contexts.

She just jumped right in has been actively working on a couple of projects!
Here’s to collaborative learning 🥂

Collaborative activities done involving several fi

Collaborative activities done involving several fisheries stakeholders with @rnli and @emedo_tanzania_255, all to provide a deeper understanding of the prevalent drowning risks.

#dwbprojects #humancentereddesign #userjourney #visualization

Let’s talk about boats… #dwbprojects

Let’s talk about boats…

#dwbprojects

Trust the process… . . . . #dwbafrica #dwbfello

Trust the process…

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#dwbafrica #dwbfellowship

Field work going down in Rhino camp, Terego distri

Field work going down in Rhino camp, Terego district.
3 hints: food security, nutrition & refugees.

The DwB Africa fellowship program leverages real life projects to provide hands-on product & service design training. It’s intense, it’s fast, but most of all….it’s fun!🤗
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#dwbafrica #dwbfellowship #productdesign #servicedesign #humancentereddesign #designthinking

Practicing sketching & communication using some fu

Practicing sketching & communication using some fun tools with the design fellows!
Also a really cool ice-breaker!🤗

#dwbafrica #dwbfellowship

And Patricia 👷🏿‍♀️an architect and int

And Patricia 👷🏿‍♀️an architect and interior designer with a love for art and all things expression.
WARNING!⚠️
If you meet her, prepare to be immersed into a wormhole of abstract awesomeness.

#dwbfellowship

A one Marcus Maxwell 👨🏿‍🏭(yes, you have

A one Marcus Maxwell 👨🏿‍🏭(yes, you have to say them both) is a talented visual artist and product designer from Nigeria. Skilled in turning scrap into treasure, he’ll make you see potential and beauty in things you’d never have imagined!

#dwbfellowship

An experienced sociologist and researcher, Karol 👩🏾‍🏫 is passionate about using design to address social issues with vulnerable communities. If you need to understand context specific needs of women and children, Karol is definitely your guy!

#dwbfellowship

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