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Project Overview
Ostomy bags redesigned to look and feel better, boosting confidence and helping wearers to enjoy a full and active life. There are three styles with special features tailored to different moments: regular, sporty and intimate.
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Project Context
The designs now in use do not fit our modern lifestyle and really limit wearers’ freedom. They are uncomfortable, don’t stay in place, leak and irritate the skin. Many users also said that they did not like the standard, clinical design of the bags, which are usually white or pale, the colour of Caucasian skin.
Project Innovation
Teddy interviewed stoma users to assess their needs and wishes, incorporating these in her designs. There is a deflation valve and the flexible material moves noiselessly along with the body. Appealing to look at, they are no longer something to hide away in shame.
She created a two-part design using a variety of skin-safe materials. The first part is a circular hydrocolloid base, or 'skin plate', that fits over the stoma opening and adheres to the skin. This acts as a mount for the bag itself, via a polyethylene click ring. Each bag can also be further secured to the skin using strips of plaster adhesive.
Commercial - Object
Commercial projects recognises that design is the means to create meaningful experiences for users, create value for people and drive profit for businesses.
The object category celebrates creative and innovative design for an object or product. Consideration is given according to the design context and need, design innovation and the application of human centred design principles.
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