Product Design student Jake Finnigan talks about designing a Suture Learning Aid.

For my major project I worked alongside artistic anatomist Louisa Baillie to design a set of three learning resources to help medical students learn to suture.

Suturing is the act of sewing up flesh or a wound. After consulting with Dr Celia Devenish, the Obstetrics and Gynaecology specialist at the University of Otago, we were able to highlight several issues with the way suture is currently taught. The three products I designed were an affordable physical suture kit, a companion app and video lesson concepts.

The focus of the physical suture kit was to give the students variation in the form of the skin, whereas the app and video focused primarily on a good user interface, while also resolving issues such as learning for left-handed users.

I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of working on my first client project and medical learning device.

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