Nell Bennett, Co-Founder and Design Director of doppel, has today been named as one of three finalists for the Start-up Founder of the Year Award organized by everywoman and sponsored by Barclays. The award is presented to the most inspirational female founder of a start-up business.
Last month we were shortlisted for the prestigious Design in Innovation Award - an award which seeks to recognize those projects which employed early-stage design most effectively to improve and/or accelerate innovation outcomes.
In 1908, psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson first mapped the empirical relationship between ‘arousal’ (meaning psychological alertness) and performance.
The clear top motor is perhaps doppel’s most striking feature. You can see it spinning as it creates the heartbeat-like vibration on the inside of your wrist.
Two years ago, along with three other founders, I started a business. It was something none of us had ever done before. Needless to say, we have made plenty of mistakes along the way.
Workplace stress is a bigger problem than many of us realise. Here are three charts which demonstrate the scale of the problem in North America and one statistic which illustrates the situation in the UK.
When we describe doppel we often compare it to music. We say that like listening to music, a fast rhythm helps you to feel more alert, a slower rhythm is calming.
As we age, our perspective on situations and ourselves can change. A large US study shows us how factors like stress, anger, happiness and well-being change with age.
At doppel, we’ve spent the past three years developing our first product. Now that we’ve begun manufacturing, we wanted to reflect on our design and development process and share some of the lessons we’ve learnt along the way.
Circadian Rhythms are the changes made throughout your body that follow the 'master clock' in your hypothalamus. These changes occur over the course of a day. In this post, we go over what they are, and how you can 'reset' your system.
