Tag: Prototype Development
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Building Together: Research, Community, and the Next Chapter
We realised that it has been a while since we shared an update on our journey of building LYEONS. Over the past few months, we have been busy writing articles, learning from experts, carrying out further studies, and working on our Listening to Users series. Before we knew it, we had spent far less time…
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Listening to Ada: Job Hunting, Anxiety and Everyday Life
Every experience with LYEONS Heart is different, and one of the most valuable parts of working with our early users is hearing those experiences in their own words. About LYEONS Heart user Ada Ada is a recent MRes graduate in Neuroscience and now works as a research intern at LYEONS while balancing part time work…
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Listening to Trisha: How LYEONS Heart Fit Into Study, Commuting and Everyday Student Life
“In a noisier environment such as a university campus, the device appeared to help with staying on task for a bit longer, with less tendency to be drawn away by surrounding sounds and stimulations.” About LYEONS Heart user Trisha Trisha is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Bioscience Futures at Imperial College London and…
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Dementia Care Beyond Memory: Connection, Regulation, and Sensory Experience
If you have ever watched the film Coco (2017, Disney•Pixar), you may remember the moment when music brings a grandmother back into connection, as she begins to sing along to “Remember Me”. In the summer of 2025, grandmother, who had been mostly non-verbal while living with Alzheimer’s disease for over a decade, had a visit…
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Journaling, Reflection and the Inner Space
One of the things I appreciated most growing up was a simple reassurance from parents: they would never read my diary. That promise created something important as a little child and growing up. It made journaling a safe zone. A space that existed only between me and myself. A place to reflect.To observe.To think without…
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Listening to Milly: How LYEONS Heart Became Part of Everyday Life
“It’s been wonderful to control some elements of my nervous system without really having to think about it. That’s been really freeing.” When we spoke with Milly, what stayed with us was how openly she described the experience of being physically aware of her nervous system much of the time, and how meaningful it can…
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Listening to Georgie: What Nervous System Support Can Feel Like in Real Life
About LYEONS Heart user Georgie Georgie studied Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where she explored how complex health conditions can be identified in the archaeological record, specialising in palaeopathology and osteology. She lives with several rare diseases, including one affecting the nervous system, giving her both scientific and lived insight into complex health…
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Co-regulation: how calm is shared, and why it matters more than we think
Most of us have been taught to treat stress as a thinking problem. Change the thought, change the feeling. Sometimes that works. Often it doesn’t, especially when your body is already in threat mode. There is another route in, and it is older than language: the nervous system. In a recent conversation with Ayala Homoossany,…
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How We Prepared for Our Kickstarter MVP Beta Launch and What We Learned
As we move on with MVP LYEONS Heart, we wanted an early small cohort who would be our MVP beta testers. The learnings we wanted to get were: is there potential for LYEONS Heart to support people, and who is it most helpful for? What kind of improvements can we make – product, application, support,…
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Making, Making, and Making
Someone would ask, how do inventors come up with an idea. Just like Dyson made 5,126 prototypes before he had his very first successful vacuum cleaner, it is always a journey. A journey of making, user testing, getting feedback, qualitative and quantitative assessment, iterating, testing again, and looping back. Work Alike Prototypes The initial prototype…