Jack Strachan
Industrial Design and Technology
Final year project
Reimagining the First Year of Parent-Hood: Sleep Tracking & Home Automation
NHS smarts.
NHS smarts is a mobile based app that provides bite sized packs of information to guide young patients through transition. This project was completed as part of the IBM Extreme Blue program.
U. is an integrated service for large organisations, designed to empower autistic employees with accessible and engaging information that increases self-awareness, identification and facilitation of their unique skill sets. This project was completed in response to the 2018/19 RSA Student Design Award brief 'Hidden Figures' and shortlisted for the award.
Jack Strachan
I believe that design can be used as a tool to solve complex problems and enable meaningful experiences through brands, products and services.
Great design is much more than just good aesthetics, it's the way we interact with objects and the way they impact our life. A great design solution showcases a multidisciplinary collaboration where every aspect of design has been taken into account and stripped down to its essentials, wether they are physical, digital or intertwined. I have had the opportunity to explore how user-centric design approaches like these are used to influence the creation of experiences delivered to real people through my time at Loughborough and internships at companies such as Bosch Power Tools and IBM.
Awards
'18 Diploma in Professional Practice '19 RSA Student Awards, Design School Nominee
Experience
https://jackstrachan.co/
Placements
June 2017 - September 2018
'17 Academic Research Internship, Loughborough Design School (3 Months) '18 User Experience Designer, Bosch Power Tools (10 months) '18 User Experience Designer, IBM Extreme Blue (3 Months)