Spoon 匙型驗孕棒 by MrSmith Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 醫療產品設計 Competition Category.

鐵醫療產品· 2020

Spoon 匙型驗孕棒

by MrSmith Studio

Client: PRIMA Lab SA

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 醫療產品 Category

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The Design

About Spoon 匙型驗孕棒

Spoon係一款專為家庭使用而設計嘅一次性驗孕棒。造型靈感嚟自湯匙,採用細小柔和嘅線條同較闊嘅握柄表面。所有邊角都經過圓滑處理,營造親和嘅視覺感受,因為呢個測試通常喺私密同情感豐富嘅時刻使用。握持部位設計成傾斜同加大嘅形狀,以提升人體工學同直覺式操作體驗。Spoon尺寸為130 x 25 x 10毫米,重量14克。主體採用注塑生物塑膠製造,以減少碳足跡,而每個部件嘅厚度都經過精確校準,務求節省物料。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Spoon 匙型驗孕棒是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Spoon 匙型驗孕棒將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Spoon 匙型驗孕棒因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

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