Spoon 妊娠検査薬 by MrSmith Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 医療機器・医療設備デザイン Competition Category.

鉄医療製品· 2020

Spoon 妊娠検査薬

by MrSmith Studio

Client: PRIMA Lab SA

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 医療製品 Category

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The Design

About Spoon 妊娠検査薬

Spoonは、家庭で使用する使い捨てタイプの妊娠検査薬です。フォルムはスプーンから着想を得ており、柔らかな小さな形状と、持ち手部分の広い面が特徴です。プライベートで感情の動く場面で使用される製品であるため、すべてのエッジに丸みを持たせ、親しみやすい印象に仕上げました。グリップ部分は傾斜をつけて大きくすることで、優れた人間工学性と直感的な使いやすさを実現しています。Spoonのサイズは130×25×10ミリメートル、重量は14グラムです。本体はカーボンフットプリントを削減するため射出成形バイオプラスチック製とし、各部品の肉厚を最適に調整することで материалの節約を図っています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Spoon 妊娠検査薬は、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Spoon 妊娠検査薬は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Spoon 妊娠検査薬は、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Design of this product started in the analysis of the moment of use. This is a single use product, meant to be used in a very intimate, precious, emotional moment of a woman's life. Therefore all shapes have been softened and rounded in order to have a friendly look and grip area has been tilted and expanded for a better ergonomics.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130 x 25 x 10mm
Weights only 14 grams.
Tags: Medical, health, pregnancy, woman, design, soft, spoon, maternity, babies, comfort, bioplastic, ecofriendly, ingenious, ergonomics
Production Technology: Spoon is made with injected bioplastic, in order to reduce carbon footprint.
Thicknesses of the components has been calibrated in order to save material.
Design Challenge: The wider and tilted grip area required more complex geometry. Main challenge has been to design those shapes being sure that injected plastic pieces were going to match each other perfectly with very little tolerances
Research: Project started with a detailed market research, supported by a research on materials and production techniques.
User interaction and emotions are key factor in this project, therefore shape had to be friendly and comfortable.
Inspiration: Shapes and name of this project take inspiration by the spoon. Small soft shapes with a wider surface for the handle area.
Friendly, reliable and easy to use, this is how a pregnancy test should look like.
Project Duration: Project started in July 2019 and has been launched on the market in January 2020
Operation Flow: The soft shapes and the wider grip area makes ergonomics very easy and interaction with the product is very intuitive.
Patents: Prima Lab
Team Members: MrSmith Studio
Image Credits: MrSmith Studio