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PDR secures 3 iF Design Awards for 2022!
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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 27. 2022
Exploring the challenges facing Cardiff’s creative industries

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

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

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

Feb 22. 2022
A Year in Research at PDR

Feb 10. 2022
New jobs, events & exciting developments: 6 months later for media.cymru

Jan 25. 2022
How do we know design has impact?

Jan 20. 2022
Why should local governments be using design to create policy?

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 01. 2021
Meet Catriona, our newest User Centred Designer

Nov 09. 2021
Why governments should invest in design support interventions for SMEs

Nov 05. 2021
How can the creative industries adopt sustainable design?
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 15. 2021
How great service design in the NHS develops world-changing services

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

Oct 05. 2021
Lessons from the path to Professor, from Anna Whicher

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

Aug 31. 2021
Circular Design School 2021

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

Aug 02. 2021
The past, present & future of patient-specific design

Jul 09. 2021
How surgical implants and prosthetics have changed our world, 2 decades later

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 03. 2021
Introducing the recently launched Global Academies from Cardiff Met

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

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

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 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

Sep 21. 2019
An Indian Connection

Jul 26. 2019
Ecodesign Reflections on Outdoors by ISPO Part 3: A Design for Life?

Jul 16. 2019
Ecodesign Reflections on Outdoors by ISPO Part 2: Including the User in Life Cycle-based Design

Jul 12. 2019
Ecodesign Reflections on Outdoors by ISPO Part 1: Design Against Ocean Plastics?

Apr 05. 2019
Prof. of Healthcare Applications of Design

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

Mar 19. 2019
Istanbul Design Summit 2019

Mar 04. 2019
How complex design can be used to shorten surgery time

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

Nov 05. 2018
Ireland's got the User-Factor

Oct 01. 2018
Shapes and Gates

Sep 28. 2018
Diseno Para La Vida

Sep 25. 2018
Modelling... but not on the Catwalk

Sep 14. 2018
Towards a Design Action Plan for NI?

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

Jun 20. 2018
MoJ Showcase: Designing for People in Crisis

Apr 06. 2018
User Research to Inform Strategy

Feb 06. 2018
Layr secures 2018 iF Design Award

Jan 24. 2018