We are pleased to be invited as the first featured speaker, and will be giving a presentation entitled, "Design Morphing — Transforming Products to Satisfy Consumers". IHA has 1,700 member companies and is the 64 year-old voice the housewares industry, which accounts for $268 billion at retail worldwide (US$). For more information contact us at info@jgdesign.com.

Procter & Gamble has released a horizontal version of their popular PUR brand of faucet mount water filters, which has already become the number one product in that category. It features a more intuitive valve actuation and, due to the horizontal filter orientation, a reduced frontal visual profile. We are co-patent holders for this design (patents D438592, D484567, D453952S). Others are pending. This product was also was a finalist in the international PTC Pro/AWARDS competition, Consumer category (see streaming video clip).

A new generation of single-therapy drug infusion pumps, developed by SIMS Deltec, Inc. (Now Smiths Medical), offers a more intuitive interface, improved ease-of-use, reliability and safety. Often used for outpatient pain management therapies, one of the primary goals of this project was to reduce the "intimidation" factor for the user. A shape configuration that is less "medical" and more comfortable to wear (or hold in the hand) were important design objectives. Designed as a global product, it is available with interfaces in the following languages: French, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Danish, Finnish, and Portuguese.