Jim Dawton is the Director of Pearson Matthews, a leading UK product development consultancy specialising in the healthcare sector.

In joining the team of healthcare specialists at Pearson Matthews a year ago, Jim continues in a career that involves working for many of London’s foremost design consultancies; including Roberts Weaver, BIB, Tangerine, Therefore and Seymour Powell.

He has designed many successful consumer products for a wide range of international brands from the exclusive hi-fi manufacturer Linn Products to the mass-market leader Tefal. Since joining Pearson Matthews a year ago, he has combined this knowledge with the technically-focused medical device industry — creating a holistic offer that combines strategic direction and product-centric brand definition, with the demands delivering devices into a highly regulated and competitive market.

Jim sits on the Advisory Board of the Parliamentary Design Group, and is a member of the Associate Parliamentary Health Group. He regularly gives talks and lectures to a wide range of design audiences and academic institutions from the Glasgow School of Arts to Cambridge University; and well as partnering research programmes with Universities such as Newcastle, Keele, Nottingham, Brunel, Imperial and the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre and the Royal College of Art. Jim himself studied Industrial Design at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Polytechnic, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

Pearson Matthews

Pearson Matthews is a new product development consultancy, specialising in the healthcare sector. The company’s strategic thinking is matched by their proven ability to take early stage research, and develop it through to ground-breaking products. Moreover, whilst medical device design was once largely about advancing technology through trials to market, now issues from brand to ‘consumer’ experience also play their part in the design of both product and service.

Pearson Matthews won the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2005 in partnership with the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, London, UK.