BSc PD
Julian Hall
I'm Julian, fresh from completing my BSc in Product Design at Nottingham Trent University, driven to enhance everyday experiences through thoughtful innovation. I focus on creative problem-solving and visual storytelling, honed through experience gained during a placement year at DCA Design International. I'm always aiming to craft clever and practical products through outside-the-box thinking.
Ordo
In shared rentals, landlords often prioritise the lowest possible cost for amenities. Consequently, kitchen bins commonly provided are poorly designed, with little regard for the tenant user experience. These poorly designed bins come with a familiar list of frustrations: easily broken foot pedals, difficult cleaning, and unpleasant bag changes. These issues make taking the bin out a truly dreaded task, ultimately leading to overfilling as tenants delay the inevitable.
This project confronts this issue directly with Ordo. Delivering key benefits for a better user experience: a reimagined bag handling system for secure fit and effortless bag removal, modular sections sized for easy dishwasher cleaning, and a passive air vent combating suction when removing the bag.
No more wrestling with bags, no more awkwardness, no more overflowing bins. Ordo is designed so that taking the bin out is finally easy, removing any excuse for overfilling. It offers landlords a durable, low-cost amenity while providing tenants with a significantly improved, more hygienic, and less frustrating daily interaction with waste management, showcasing that simple, intelligent design can elevate even the most overlooked everyday products.
Trainline Travel Companion
As over 1,000 rail ticket offices are set to close across the UK, elderly passengers face a critical choice: adapt to complex, unfamiliar digital systems or lose their independence in rail travel.
This project seeks to address this urgent issue by introducing a travel companion device for Trainline.
Provided alongside the purchase of an elderly railcard, users book tickets at home, then journey details appear on the device, presenting the familiar Trainline interface in a truly accessible format. It offers a comforting dedicated interface, navigated using a single control wheel, all presented on a solar powered, easy-read e-ink display.
It's about making digital ticketing welcoming, ensuring independence, offering peace of mind and driving digital bookings through this accessible entry point.