Innovative breast shapers for diverse breast form wearers- how might we utilise our revolutionary approach to breast form design to support the transgender community to access comfortable and affordable breast form products?

适合不同胸型佩戴者的创新型胸型塑造器——我们如何利用革命性的胸型设计方法来支持跨性别群体获得舒适且价格实惠的胸型产品？

• 批准号: 10059952
• 金额: $ 6.33万
• 依托单位: BOOST INNOVATIONS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10059952
• 关键词: Innovative; breast; shapers; diverse; form

Boost has a reputation for inclusive, human-centred design for health and wellbeing. We hate making design assumptions about what people need, or what they think and feel. Instead, we wish to co-design with the communities we work with, and for our first breast shapers, we have done this successfully, working to include women who've had breast cancer all the way through our product development process. We have considered for some time that our light, airy and comfortable breast forms might be of interest within the transgender community. Indeed, we have had enquiries and made some sales. However, we don't like to make assumptions. So we have designed a project to help us actively and meaningfully engage in co-design, discovery and market insight activity with the transgender community. This funding will allow Boost to engage directly with transgender breastform wearers for the first time, listening to their breast shaper needs. We will undertake product discovery activities to identify potential ways that Boost's unique shaper concepts could be tailored, adapted or reimagined to suit the needs of transgender customers. We will deliver make, test and learn cycles which will focus on the shaper products themselves and the user-experience, purchasing journey and messaging that might be used to support trans breastform wearers to access our products. Usually, breastforms for the trans community are created to represent realism and are often made from heavy silicone gel in polyurethane film. They are not-recyclable or comfortable, particularly when you might be in the early stages of exploring new body shapes and identities. They are also expensive and would have limitations for swimming and exercise.We aim to consider whether we have design and user-experience barriers for trans customers and deliver a project that overcomes these, making our products more accessible to even wider groups of people. Our patented products have shown us that we can re-imagine what a breastform can be. Now we want to work with more diverse breastform wearers across new communities to see if we can also support them with our innovative take on breastform design.

Boost以健康和福祉的包容性，以人为中心的设计而闻名。我们讨厌对人们的需求或他们的想法和感觉进行设计假设。取而代之的是，我们希望与我们合作的社区共同设计，对于我们的第一个乳房塑造者，我们成功地做到了这一点，努力包括在我们的产品开发过程中一直患有乳腺癌的女性。我们已经考虑了一段时间，我们的轻便，通风和舒适的乳房形式可能会在变性社区中引起人们的关注。确实，我们进行了查询并进行了一些销售。但是，我们不喜欢做出假设。因此，我们设计了一个项目，以帮助我们积极而有意义地与跨性别社区一起进行共同设计，发现和市场洞察活动。这笔资金将使Boost首次直接与跨性别乳房佩戴者互动，从而聆听他们的乳房塑造者的需求。我们将开展产品发现活动，以确定可以量身定制，适应或重新构想的潜在方式，以适应跨性别客户的需求。我们将提供制造，测试和学习周期，这些周期将专注于自身和用户体验，购买的旅程和消息传递，这些旅程和消息传递可能用于支持Trans Bressform佩戴者访问我们的产品。通常，创建了跨性别群落的乳房形式来代表现实主义，并且通常是由聚氨酯膜中的重硅凝胶制成的。它们不可回收或舒适，尤其是当您处于探索新身体形状和身份的早期阶段时。它们也很昂贵，游泳和锻炼的局限性。我们的目标是考虑我们是否有针对跨性别客户的设计和用户体验障碍，并提供了一个克服这些的项目，使我们的产品更容易被更广泛的人提供。我们的专利产品向我们表明，我们可以重新想象胸部可能是什么。现在，我们想与新社区中更多样化的乳腺佩戴者合作，看看我们是否还可以通过创新的乳腺设计来支持它们。