Lab of the future
Improving lab efficiency through technology
Virtual and augmented reality is revolutionising the learning experience. Immersive experiences have the potential to contribute to faster learning, better retention and improved decision making. We've been exploring how these digital technologies could improve the modern laboratory workflow, improving the way lab technicians and test engineers work. Ensuring...
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The future of instructions for use
Tailoring content around user learning styles
As individuals we all approach, interact and retain information in unique ways. Despite an almost infinite number of individual preferences over how we receive information, there are three distinct groups that can generally help categorise and identify how someone naturally processes information. Visual learners prefer to observe and look over information...
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Big Data
Closing the Loop
‘Bad Medicine’ Freakonomics Radio podcast episode, Dr Vinay Prasad, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Sciences University, exposes the unsettling reality that ‘evidence-based medicine’ is still not as pervasive as we would all hope. Dr Vinay Prasad comments: “… one of the things...
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Meet the team - Olly
A day in the life of a designer
Name: Olly Needham Job Title: Product Designer Degree Background & University: I studied Product Design at the University of Leeds, with an Industrial Placement year as a packaging designer at Unilever. My course was very multi-disciplinary, with a focus on human-centred design and modules which spanned the entire process from creating...
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Prototyping Human-Machine Interfaces
Applying UX methods to product design
Prototyping is crucial to the way that we approach projects at Crux; we fail fast, learn quickly and incrementally improve a design until it looks and works beautifully. We'll prototype surface models to understand how an object looks in it's intended environment, while at the same time design rigs that allow us to understand, test and...
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It's Awards Season!
Crux shortlisted for Design Week Award
Crux are delighted to be shortlisted for a prestigious Design Week Award, in its 26th year of recognising and celebrating the best of design across numerous disciplines. Our Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic track cycling helmet has been nominated in the Industrial Product design category – recognising the impact design and engineering...
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