On Stage Design Indaba 2019: Kacper Pietrzykowski

Kacper Pietrzykowski is an experience designer who developed IDA, a blood/glucose metre that helps lower the psychological trauma inflicted on some patients when measuring their blood/glucose levels.

Speaking at the Design Indaba Conference 2019 he explains how his sister Ida was the inspiration behind this metre. His sister has Type 1 Diabetes, and the regular record keeping and blood/glucose levels tracking made it appear as if she had a second job.

“There is no vacation for this kind of job. Imagine that you have this second shift because your pancreas decided to quit for no good reason. You are now the head of blood/glucose balancing department of your body,” says Pietrzykowski.