Huw Morgan
Hi I’m Huw. These are my designs!
If you want to get in contact My email is huwamorgan@gmail.com
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Huw Morgan
I am a 22 year old London based designer and who recently graduated in 2020 with a first class degree. My style of design is driven to create solutions that help people and I believe that the best design comes from engaging multiple and diverse perspectives.
Experience and live projects redLoop design & innovation centre Junior designer Year long placement 2018-2019
Tocalabs Junior designer consultant Autumn 2019
SMASHFest UK Junior designer Spring 2020 and Spring 2018
Skills During the year I worked on a range of projects where I got to practice my skills with rapid prototyping, body storming, UX & UI of websites, development of tooling and exhibit design. I also got to work on my team working skills by working in small work groups. While at university a company approached us as a studio to help them create a product. During this project I was able to work on my pitching skills, rapid prototyping, DFM and layout. As well as working with client requests and taking criticism and moving forward with a project with that. Twice while at university I helped SMASHFestUk to re design their events. This helped me practice my UX skills, exhibit design, pitching and team work. During these project I took a team leader role in both projects which meant I was able to work on my management skills.
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Adobe CS Solidworks Keyshot Blender Fusion 360 Meshlabs Rapid prototyping Workshop machines 3D printer training and maintenance (Stratasys J750, The form 2, Up box, and up Mini) Screen printing & Vinyl C++ Arduino Python
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Industrial design
Experience and exhibit design
My passions
My passion in industrial design come from the background research and technology ideation used to make innovation.
Skills I have learned while designing experiences and exhibits are very transferable to industrial design, they have taught me the same problem solving and ideation skill set.
Most of my design work is the work I do outside of my jobs or university.
I also use similar prototyping styles are used with in products when making UX and UI.
I really love the endless capabilities of this career and I do use it every day just because it is design that allows life to be made more simple.
SMASHFest UK- Creating a fun learning experience
Homemade plant pots- Creating self watering plant
Alexandra palace S.T.E.M. Exhibit- Recreating
Online Tabletop resources-Making a series of
Taking a problem and thoroughly researching it means that you can then find new ways to solve old problems. This is applicable to any project as having an understanding of a problem can help you see new approaches.
Stasis- A medical product that helps skin cancer remission patients track their recovery at home.
to encourage children and their parents to go into S.T.E.M.
technology to create a sleek office server stack.
Alexandra Palace without plans to help kids get into architecture.
Tocahive- Using elegant design and current
Modern trailblazer- A gear stick that allows a
vintage drag car keep up with modern technologies.
pots for the lazy or forgetful inside plant owner.
assets images and code to facilitate gamers to continue their tabletop gaming during isolation.
Flexible mirror for art instillation - a 504 piece
mirror that created a flexible mirror that was used as a way to recreate the twinkling of water in an exhibit/rave.
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Stasis
A dual sensor cancer tracker Solo university final project Time span- 6 months
Stasis uses proven technology from two existing sources to create a device that is innovative while still easy to use. This product gives patients accurate health data so they know when they should make emergency appointments and during those appointments gives the doctor a larger data set to see if there is evolution between check-ups.
All it takes is a scan a week to build an accurate record of how your moles or skin lesions evolve.
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Patients want to help more in their own treatment journey as this would allow them to feel more in control of their health. Patient Involvement in Health Care Decision Making
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Currently the length of the average doctors consultations for post cancer treatment is 21 minutes on average. BBC.co.uk
Most national health services do not currently recommend “unreliable� cancer tracking apps as they give unreliable data.
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When a cancer is diagnosed at stage I the patient has a 98% rate of survival after one year compared 58% at stage 4.
cancerresearchuk.org
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These are all quotes taken from doctors or skin cancer patients in one to one interviews. After having skin cancer a patient is twice as likely to develop another within 10 years.
cancerresearchuk.org
Currently patients have no way of detecting when they make an emergency appointment as they only can do visual inspections at home.
mpo-mag.com
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Developing the technology Developing a technology suitable for home testing of skin cancer was required. There was a masters project that validated testing for cancers by looking for angiogenesis. The easiest way was to test for irregularities directly after rapidly cooling a suspected mole. Searching for the presence of blood vessels higher to the surface.
I developed this device so that it would have minimal cost and upkeep with maximum sensitivity and selectivity. That’s why I chose thermistors.
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Creating a custom PCB After making a proof of concept the next stage required a higher fidelity of prototyping so I made a custom PCB which would make the results more accurate and reproducible.
This PCB was also made to create restrains for the size and shape of one of the testing heads of the device.
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Variable 1 The height
When you take a photo the distance you take it from will make the size of the mole look larger or smaller.
Lighting levels
If the lighting conditions change between photos the colour of the mole may look like it has changed.
The angle
If you change the angle then the photo might change the shape and size from the last.
Fixing apps’ variability The problem with current testing apps is their uncontrolled variables. Almost every health service says that they are unreliable due to these variables and need to be made more reliable before they can be used. 9
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Testing the proof of concept Before moving on to the form I tested the proof of concept I made. Firstly I used a usb microscope to test to see if I had removed the variations from the apps. I then tested my custom PCB by testing the temperature of my skin and seeing if they all had a similar reading both in room temperature and on my skin and changed in a similar time.
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Looking at existing products This was my state of the art in depth analysis looking at other medical products for inferences.
I also believe it’s important to find other peoples’ opinions and insights so when I did this I tried to involve people with those different perspectives.
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Sketch ideation These sketches were to help me explore the form, and ideate around what would suit both the technology and the end user’s requirement. From these I was able to start going into rough prototypes of from with foam and cardboard.
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Developing the form After finding the general size and shape with foam models I started to prototype to find the real sizes and what would fit the hand.
I came to the dipped circle in the end then tested the size and asked one of the target demographic to test the prototype on themselves to take readings.
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Body storming the UX One of the main insights was about making something project was creating a easy to use product. Creating early prototypes helped with the experience prototyping and body storming. This also gave me the information as to how I should train other people to use it.
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Stasis- a revolutionary dual sensor tracking device Stasis removes the variables in current home skin cancer scans, allowing AI to track the visual evolution of a mole in a more reliable way. Spotting micro changes, that would normally go unnoticed, gives patients and doctors accurate health data that can show early signs of cancers. This health data could tell a patient if they’re redeveloping a cancer and allow them to seek early medical help. This has been achieved by using sensors to track thermal recovery after rapid cooling and using reliable photographs.
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Tocahive
Universal office server stack Develop a small computer stack that could be installed at a company’s office that helps automate jobs that contained information that fell under GDPR and wouldn’t be allowed on external servers for safety reasons.
Solo live project Time span- 3 weeks
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Digesting the brief After the initial briefing and questioning we broke down the clients needs and turned them into criteria in our designs. When we broke down these needs we split into groups. This allowed us to get multiple perspectives and have collaborative design.
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The specification
One of their main criteria was developing a way for the device to be cooled separate to the fans. This would mean the stack would be quieter as the fans work less.
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Initial ideation
I began the ideation with thumbnail sketches which I could quickly translate to illustrator sketches.
From these sketches I found simpler forms were easier when trying to fit their space envelope into the form, it also stuck closer to their brief and my criteria.
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The cooling
The space envelope
The build
The product is split into three parts with a divider in between each section. That divider stops the heat flowing to the higher sections and instead dissipates it to the outer body.
This means this device can fit into as many places as possible within an office without taking a lot of space and giving room below it to bring in cool air without dust.
This entire product has been designed so it could be made in a maker space such as (Building Bloqs) for minimal cost batch production
The Cooling comes from the large surface area instead of airflow, the chassis functions as a heat sink.
The internal space fits both of the motherboards and the power supply in the smallest footprint possible.
The build of this product means its easy to open the access panel if you know what you’re doing but other than that is difficult to tamper with.
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The metaphor
The client said that the first idea I had didn’t convey the point I was trying to make. They said it looked more like a cactus rather than something that would actually want to interact with and look friendly so I stayed with the nature metaphor and decided to go with a tree instead.
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Methuselah
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Glanceable interface
The design used lights to show the “health” of the bots inside. Since I was using a tree as my inspiration I used colours to the indicator as if they were leaves. The lights go from green to orange to dark brown. Each show a different level of how much how the computer is getting and how much the CPU is being used.
The space envelope
Using haptic feedback you can put your hand on the case of Methuselah and feel a vibration that varies in size depending on how many cores and percentage of the CPU that is being used.
Heat dispersion
This final form used large “Knots” in the other shell of wood to increase the surface area allowing for that same level of heat distribution.
By using this you could reduce the amount the fans had to cool the machine overall making the whole server stack run quieter.
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Alexandra palace A model without planning Solo live project Time span- 8 weeks
While on my placement year I worked at redLoop innovation centre where I worked on a research-led, innovation and design collaboration centre run by the School of Science and Technology at Middlesex University London.
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The brief One of the exhibits they asked for was to highlight the architecture of the palace.
The issue with that is because of the ever changing nature of Alexandra palace and the fires there are no plans for the building so the entire model was going to be built from Google maps.
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Creating the model
When we started to make the model we had to decide on the materials. At first we realised we had to make the iconic court domes which led us to making the whole thing out of finboard. The whole model was made part by part in illustrator with every part being made separately and then slotted together.
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Editorial Photos
These images are to show how it was going to be used and how a teacher could highlight different parts. The radio tower at the front right and how that area was transformed into a workshop. The facade that covers the modular palace.
The glass roofs and domes which show how revolutionary the architecture and technology was when making the palace.
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Thank you for reading!
Huw Morgan
Find me at@huwsdesign huwamorgan@gmail.com huwamorgan.co.uk
Online tabletop game assets
Re-designing a gear stick
Creating the tooling for medical products
An origami torch for children’s exhibit
Self watering for plants and bonsai trees
500 flexible mirrors for an exhibit
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