Iron Medical Product · 2020

Spoon Pregnancy Test

by MrSmith Studio

A' Design Award 2020 in Medical Product
CLIENT: PRIMA Lab SA
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About Spoon Pregnancy Test

Spoon is a single use pregnancy test designed for home use. The form takes inspiration from a spoon, with small soft shapes and a wider surface for the handle area. All edges are rounded to give a friendly look, as the test is used in a private and emotional moment. The grip area is tilted and enlarged for better ergonomics and intuitive use. Spoon measures 130 x 25 x 10 millimeters and weighs 14 grams. The body is made of injected bioplastic to reduce the carbon footprint, and the thickness of each component is calibrated to save material.

About the A' Design Award

Spoon Pregnancy Test is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Spoon Pregnancy Test is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Spoon Pregnancy Test is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

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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
Image Credits: MrSmith Studio