
S5E6 - Why the best hardware careers look like wrong turns from the outside | Felicity Boyce
Published: April 16, 2026
Duration: 1:08:32
What do you do when the work you're best at starts to feel like the problem?
In this episode of Why Design, Felicity Boyce shares the belief that sits at the heart of her work: that understanding how something is made, at factory scale, under pressure, with the wrong release agent and a cycle time that doesn't add up, is more valuable than any theory you carry out of university.
As Head of Material Innovation at Koroyd, she leads the development of the tubular core technology that is now inside helmets and body protection products...