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PDR secures 3 iF Design Awards for 2022!
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May 11. 2022
How PDR is supporting the museum to embed design

May 05. 2022
Meet our new Human Centred Design Assistant Researcher, Dr Sally Cloke

Apr 29. 2022
Embrace our Differences: Design for Healthcare and Adaptation - Professor Dominic Eggbeer

Apr 06. 2022
Travels with PDR: To San Francisco and beyond

Mar 10. 2022
Meet our new Senior User Centred Designer, Hefin Jones

Mar 08. 2022
How to successfully bring design thinking into an organisation

Mar 03. 2022
The purpose and benefits of consumer insight studies

Mar 01. 2022
Exploring the 3 revolutionary products featured in newdesign Yearbook 2022

Feb 24. 2022
PDR’s Jarred Evans on becoming an iF Design Award juror

Feb 14. 2022
Designing innovation in the housewares sector

Feb 08. 2022
Why is sketching still important in the 21st century?

Feb 01. 2022
Introducing the Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler, the innovative Afro hair comb

Jan 17. 2022
Why is UCD important to develop social impact?

Jan 10. 2022
Triple Win for PDR at the 2021 Good Design® Awards

Dec 17. 2021
PDR in 2021: Year in Review

Dec 13. 2021
Exploring our new Colour, Materials, Finish (CMF) lab

Dec 01. 2021
Meet Catriona, our newest User Centred Designer

Nov 16. 2021
Medica and Medical Device Design at PDR

Nov 11. 2021
What is UCD?

Oct 28. 2021
Introducing PDR’s new Digital Prototyping Lab
Oct 26. 2021
How we develop innovation in the Life Science Industry

Oct 21. 2021
PDR wins Red Dot Concept Award in the Sustainability category for Shield

Oct 12. 2021
Meet Katie, our Colour, Materials, Finish (CMF) Designer

Oct 05. 2021
Lessons from the path to Professor, from Anna Whicher
Sep 28. 2021
Applying design in the creative industries

Sep 21. 2021
PDR takes Bronze in IDEA 2021 for Shield

Sep 08. 2021
Exploring the Product Design Journey at PDR

Sep 03. 2021
How Design Can Help Start-ups

Aug 31. 2021
Circular Design School 2021

Aug 26. 2021
My first year as a User Centred Designer, with Iona Davis

Aug 23. 2021
The story behind the award-winning Brace project

Aug 19. 2021
Exploring the role of design within interdisciplinary research

Aug 17. 2021
Mr Evans, Please Take a Chair - Introducing PDR’s Newest Professor

Aug 10. 2021
Meet Jonas, the newest member of our UCD Team

Aug 06. 2021
PDR and Cardiff Region win £50m funding to develop media innovation

Jul 29. 2021
Discussions on design with Grahame Jones, Senior Design Consultant

Jul 23. 2021
24 Hour Challenge with Cardiff School of Art & Design

Jul 06. 2021
How Design Support Programmes Help Businesses

Jul 01. 2021
Introducing Lucie, our new Marketing Associate Intern

Jun 25. 2021
Healthy Ageing By Design

Jun 23. 2021
Introducing Oli, our new UCD Specialist

Jun 22. 2021
Why Service Design Is Integral To Public Sector Innovation

Jun 11. 2021
Circular Economy Challenges in the Real World

Jun 09. 2021
The Richard Burton Exhibition is now open at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales!

May 12. 2021
Exploring Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and the Strength of Sharing

May 10. 2021
PDR's work published on the Design Museum London Website!

May 06. 2021
PDR is now Ranked Number 1 in the iF World Design Guide Index for 2021

Apr 28. 2021
PDR Wins 4 iF Design Awards, including a Gold!

Apr 23. 2021
How we made CoolSculpting Elite, the next generation in body contouring systems

Apr 21. 2021
Helping S4C Develop its Offering With ‘User Centred Design’

Apr 15. 2021
We’re pleased to share a recently published article from PDR’s own Dr. Anna Whicher

Apr 01. 2021
GUI Design: How To Get It Right First Time

Mar 19. 2021
The Arts and Humanities Research Council award two Fellowships to PDR

Mar 17. 2021
PDR featured in newdesign Yearbook 2021

Mar 12. 2021
We welcome a new Senior Design Consultant to the team!

Mar 04. 2021
Defining Your Next New Product: Why Does It Matter?

Mar 01. 2021
How we made CoolTone, a revolutionary muscle-toning device.

Feb 22. 2021
Say Hello to Cat

Jan 29. 2021
Product Design and the Circular Economy

Jan 21. 2021
Reflections on making policy more citizen-centred with Dr Anna Whicher

Jan 08. 2021
PDR wins an incredible four 2020 GOOD DESIGN® Awards

Oct 23. 2020
Understanding consumers in the time of change

Oct 16. 2020
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About... Design Awards

Sep 24. 2020
Snoozeal® Wins at the 2020 IDEA Awards

Aug 21. 2020
It's Arrived! Unboxing our iF Gold Award 2020

Aug 13. 2020
Exploring the Clwstwr Project with Professor Andrew Walters

Feb 05. 2020
Trends in Design Policy from Taiwan

Dec 05. 2019
German Design Award Winner 2020

May 13. 2019
Building the Cardiff Service Design Community

Apr 25. 2019
How Might We... Prototype Services Better

Apr 18. 2019
Milan Design Week 2019

Mar 19. 2019
Istanbul Design Summit 2019

Feb 18. 2019
PDR Wins German Design Award

Nov 30. 2018
Next Practice In Design Action Plans - Part 2

Nov 30. 2018
Next Practice In Design Action Plans - Part 1

Nov 23. 2018
Layr Lifts 2019 German Design Award

Sep 07. 2018
PDR and Cardiff Met Celebrate Successful Creative Clusters Bid

May 08. 2018
Greenhouse April 2018

Apr 06. 2018
User Research to Inform Strategy

Feb 06. 2018
Layr secures 2018 iF Design Award

Jan 24. 2018
Dual Success for PDR in Good Design Awards

Nov 13. 2017
Service Design Global Conference 2017

Oct 19. 2017