Innovative breast shapers for diverse breast form wearers- how might we utilise our revolutionary approach to breast form design to support the transgender community to access comfortable and affordable breast form products?

Boost以包容、以人为本的健康和福祉设计而闻名。我们讨厌对人们的需求或他们的想法和感受做出设计假设。相反，我们希望与我们合作的社区共同设计，对于我们的第一批乳房塑形器，我们已经成功地做到了这一点，在我们的产品开发过程中，我们一直致力于包括患有乳腺癌的女性。我们已经考虑了一段时间，我们的光，通风和舒适的乳房形式可能会在跨性别社区的兴趣。的确，我们已经收到了询盘，并做了一些销售。我们不喜欢做假设。因此，我们设计了一个项目，帮助我们积极和有意义地参与跨性别社区的共同设计，发现和市场洞察活动。这笔资金将使Boost首次直接与跨性别乳房塑形器佩戴者接触，倾听他们的乳房塑形需求。我们将开展产品发现活动，以确定Boost独特的塑形器概念可以定制、调整或重新想象的潜在方式，以满足跨性别客户的需求。我们将提供制造、测试和学习周期，重点关注塑形产品本身和用户体验、购买旅程和信息，这些都可能用于支持跨式乳房塑形器佩戴者使用我们的产品。通常，为跨性别群体创造的乳房模型是为了表现现实主义，通常是由聚氨酯薄膜中的重硅凝胶制成的。它们既不可回收也不舒适，特别是当你可能处于探索新体型和身份的早期阶段时。我们的目标是考虑我们是否有跨性别客户的设计和用户体验障碍，并提供一个克服这些障碍的项目，使我们的产品更容易为更广泛的人群所接受。我们的专利产品向我们展示了我们可以重新想象乳房形状。现在，我们希望与新社区中更多样化的乳房模型佩戴者合作，看看我们是否也可以通过我们创新的乳房模型设计来支持他们。

Boost has a reputation for inclusive, human-centred design for health and wellbeing. We hate making design assumptions about what people need, or what they think and feel. Instead, we wish to co-design with the communities we work with, and for our first breast shapers, we have done this successfully, working to include women who've had breast cancer all the way through our product development process. We have considered for some time that our light, airy and comfortable breast forms might be of interest within the transgender community. Indeed, we have had enquiries and made some sales. However, we don't like to make assumptions. So we have designed a project to help us actively and meaningfully engage in co-design, discovery and market insight activity with the transgender community. This funding will allow Boost to engage directly with transgender breastform wearers for the first time, listening to their breast shaper needs. We will undertake product discovery activities to identify potential ways that Boost's unique shaper concepts could be tailored, adapted or reimagined to suit the needs of transgender customers. We will deliver make, test and learn cycles which will focus on the shaper products themselves and the user-experience, purchasing journey and messaging that might be used to support trans breastform wearers to access our products. Usually, breastforms for the trans community are created to represent realism and are often made from heavy silicone gel in polyurethane film. They are not-recyclable or comfortable, particularly when you might be in the early stages of exploring new body shapes and identities. They are also expensive and would have limitations for swimming and exercise.We aim to consider whether we have design and user-experience barriers for trans customers and deliver a project that overcomes these, making our products more accessible to even wider groups of people. Our patented products have shown us that we can re-imagine what a breastform can be. Now we want to work with more diverse breastform wearers across new communities to see if we can also support them with our innovative take on breastform design.