We speculate where there are innovation opportunities, exploring and envisaging new areas of potential.
Snacks can be a saviour
Food can help a child settle their nervous system.
Some need more help with self-regulation than others, where food and drinks can offer instant relief.
We set about exploring this insight from lived experience, defining key attributes and sensorials that could support emotional dysregulation and help a child remain within the ‘window of tolerance’. In these moments, children can find themselves in the red zone of regulation, where certain action can help bring them into another zone to feel more balanced.
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The idea:
Snacks can be a saviour, where the act of chewing or sucking can reduce cortisol levels to help regulate a child’s emotions. Yet, many parents don’t know about it.
How can we better help parents to help their children? By creating simple ways to self-regulate, to aid everybody’s well-being.
Whilst we drew on human insight and experience to define a space for a new brand story, we deliberately set out to depict our ideas exclusively using AI. We defined the attributes and qualities for each product format to convey our design intention.
Chew: A chewy bar, textured to create more resistance and activate the jaw, stimulates the vagus nerve reducing anxiety and sensory overload.Crunch: Substantial, crunchy bites, to enhance neural responses in the brain, to reduce stress.
Gloop: A thick drink, intended to be heavily sucked through a straw which promotes one of the earliest forms of self-regulation, like sucking on a dummy, a thumb, or breastfeeding.
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We C You
Imagine if we could re-address how we care for women approaching and recovering from a C-section.
What if it was more considered, or even more wonderful? Rather than expecting them to have a normal post-partum pattern, why not acknowledge the extraordinary, and at times, unwanted circumstances they’ve been through?
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We explored this in more detail by sitting down with four women who gave birth via c-section, between 4 months and 8 years ago.
Their experiences covered emergency intervention and planned surgery.
The idea:
A kit with physical and digital elements that are revealed over time - right thing, right time.
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Postcards from the Future
The year 2030.
Food has become healthcare.
The gut and oral microbiome have emerged as the leading protagonists striking the balance for physical and mental health.
Healthcare systems need to relieve the pressure more than ever before: could food be the key to unlock it?
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The idea:
1. Changing things low & slow: Are there ways we can nudge people to slowly introduce more variety into their everyday food?
2. Cultivating diverse gut jungles: Can we combine the power of technology and potency of nature, to regulated our physical and mental wellbeing?
3. The mouth is the gut’s sidekick: Could we bolster the defences of the oral microbiome, in a joyful and convenient way?
These explorations have been inspired by a number of sources that we’ve been soaking up here at Studio Every: Podcasts, articles, documentaries by ZOE, The Food Doctor Tim Spector, Will Bulsiewicz MD MSCI and Dr. Rangan Chatterjee have given us food for thought to speculate the future of everyday health and our evolving relationship with food.
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By Your Side
As more and more services digitise, people who are less tech-savvy are getting left behind. We explored the idea of ‘overcoming the hurdle’ to online banking.
To be clear, we’re not challenging the efforts of digital design to deliver an easy-to-use banking app. We’re considering the step before that in the journey and how to alleviate the fear of the new.
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The idea:
‘By Your Side’, step-by-step support to getting familiar with app banking.We brought together guidance in a printed format, alongside the real-time digital experience - with the aim to demystify digital money management and make getting started a less fearful experience.
The depiction:
Our depiction is a demonstration of how By Your Side could manifest.Something simple to orientate people around the idea and thinking, rather than detailed design execution. This of course could be explored in depth and detail. This creates the ‘space to play’ -boundaries in which to flex creativity
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Regenerating Fast Food
Imagine if making sustainable food choices became easier, rather than a compromise. Where options available enable families to enjoy affordable, guilt-free meals that shifts the needle in sustainability, helping us all to do our bit, one step at a time.
We explored this idea with the fast-food industry, speculating a future for both healthier and more sustainable meals together.
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We explored three opportunity territories that could all lead to a big change in the sector.
A three horizon approach creates stepping stones to reach a greater vision – without them, the change will feel too big and out of reach.
The idea:
1. Making informed choices: Clarity and guidance, enabling people to make informed choices for personal or planet health.
2. Creating incremental gains: Making incremental shifts without taking the joy out of family mealtimes in fast-food outlets.
3. Future food & farming: Rethinking the food system to grow more ingredients locally, and closer to built up areas.
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