The design challenge

How do we create the best smartphone case for use in water sports activity?

Wet Works approached us to design a waterproof phone case specifically for water sports enthusiasts. Designed to be robust, reliable, and user-friendly, the case ensures your phone remains dry and functional in the most demanding conditions.

Collaborating closely with Wet Works and water sports experts, Heavy Industry developed a product that redefines protection and functionality. The case boasts a sturdy rubber enclosure, clear touch-sensitive front, and a detachable float to ensure buoyancy and easy retrieval if it falls into the water. This innovative design enhances safety and convenience, opening up new possibilities for water sports enthusiasts to capture their experiences.

Solution(s)

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Robust enclosure rated to IP67 ingress protection.

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Detachable float to enable easy recovery if dropped into water.

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Modern and functional brand design that stands out from the competition.

Design services

Regulatory compliance and CE certification

Industrial Design

Computer aided design (CAD)

Rapid prototyping and product testing

Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA)

Regulatory compliance testing

Supplier sourcing and auditing

02 | Industrial Design + Product Development

A Transparent Respirator Concept

To improve patient practitioner communication and the overall patient experience during dental procedures, a transparent contemporary design was employed to differentiate the product from similar, more intrusive designs.

Care was taken to map out the product lifecycle stages, with a view to implement waste reduction strategies and enable re-use where possible.

03 | Design Engineering + Prototyping

Development of a Functional, Proven Prototype

Anthropometric CAD data was sourced to guide the development of the respirator design and ensure that the overall form would provide an air-tight seal to the face.

Through several stages of prototyping, each component and assembly was tested against the specification to inform design improvements and define the final mask configuration. In conjunction with the University of Hertfordshire, the final proof of concept prototypes were pre-verified against the specification requirements to prove the design before proceeding to the procurement of manufacturing tooling.