Paul Magee

As a designer my background includes automotive styling, large scale structures, exhibition design, domestic furniture and hi technology products – leading to increasingly user focussed objects and experiences – including my MA major project; a moving experience-platform to share or individualise travel.

With 15 years or professional experience in the design industry and the most recent 7 years working specifically on healthcare projects, I have been directly involved with expert users, patient groups, Occupational Therapists and other medical professionals along with a variety of SME’s and larger companies tasked with production of subtle, effective and meaningful solutions to often life-restricting, undignified experiences.

A selection of the products I have been involved with during my time at HDTI is listed below; there are over 200 projects during this period, each designed around a defined user (market) need. All solutions have a simple, de-stigmatised aesthetic that encourages product selection and promotes continued usage:

• Assistive Walking Sticks and Anti-slip shock-absorbing Ferrules

• Neo-natal furniture

• Non-slip drinking mugs and eating plates

• Wheelchair stability assessment systems (hardware and GUI)

• Assistive and infant dental care

• Commodes (contemporary approach)

• Shopping aids

• Avtanski, A., Dryer, P., Fielden, S., Evans, J., Magee, P., Moody, L., Stefanov, D.,  ‘Novel System for Wheelchair Stability Assessment. Design and Initial Results’. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurement and Applications, Lisbon, 11 June 2014. 
• Dryer, P., Fielden, S., Evans, J., Heelis, M., Magee, P., Moody, L., Stefanov, D.,  ‘From research to design: the journey so far in the user-centred development of a new wheelchair stability measurement system’. European Seating Symposium, Dublin, 5 November 2013. 
• Fielden, S., Magee, P., Moody, L., ‘Cube; An ideas generation tool’. Raate, Poster, 26 November 2012. 
• Woodcock, A., and Magee, P. (2007) 'One Brief: Four Concepts. Adjustable Furniture for Schools'. Proceedings of Contemporary Ergonomics, 'Contemporary Ergonomics'. Held 17-19 Apr 2007 in Nottingham, UK. 217-222.

• WheelSense, Health Design & Technology Institute.