Graduate entrepreneurs

24 June 2009

Luke Jefferson and Luke Walsh are the owners of Scratchface Ltd, a graduate business that was assisted in its start-up and development through the first LJMU Enterprise Fellowship Programme in 2008. 

Their business idea was to develop a product that allows a person with normal colour vision to see the world through the eyes of a person with colour blindness. Their first product – the Huetility Colourblind Simulator – re-colours images allowing the user to compare the original picture with simulations of how colour blind viewers would perceive the colours in the same image. 

The future is certainly looking very bright for Scratchface Ltd - as well as securing places on the LJMU Enterprise Fellowship Programme in 2008, Luke Jefferson and Luke Walsh won HSBC Unipreneurs in 2008 and in 2009 they have already won the Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award and an UnLtd award.

More recently, Luke and Luke have developed the Huetility Colourblind Simulator iPhone application, which launched earlier this month and is now available to buy on the Apple App Store. The application is ideal for parents with colour blind children and also useful for designers, content creators and developers who want to check that the colours they have used are colour blind-friendly.  

    
LJMU’s Enterprise Fellowship Programme is an ESF/LSC funded programme that supports graduates and alumni of up to 3 years to get a business off the ground in Merseyside through a number of business skills workshops and dedicated support from a business adviser.  For more information, please contact the Business Development Centre on 0151 231 8060 or startup@ljmu.ac.uk

http://www.huetility.com/