Anneke van Abbema
Wearable and Softgoods Designer at Ann.ID
Biography
Anneke van Abbema runs Ann.ID, a small collaborative wearable and softgoods design studio. She has 10+ years of hands-on experience in wearable and softgoods design: from product development up to market roll-out mainly within the healthcare, wellbeing and sports domain. We focus on improving people’s life and performances, by designing – textile – products that closely interact with the human body.
Her project Yumen Bionics develops wearables and assistive technology for people with muscle weaknesses in the arms, especially for people with Muscular Dystrophy. Yumen Bionics is founded by Duchenne Parent Project NL and therefore has a profound and lengthy collaboration with the Duchenne community.
In other project – Maku, in collaboration between wearable design studio Ann.ID, Yumen Bionics, a wearable and accompanying app that enables at home clinical trials was developed. Together with men and boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, project researched how clinical trials should be designed to support them in the best possible way: By giving them a wearable that matches their identity and an app that gives them insight into the data during clinical trial, helps them to manage the clinical trial planning as well as mitigate uncertainties of both the boy and their family.
All sessions by Anneke van Abbema
Lightning Talk: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
08 Sep 2021
18:31
