Wheelchair accessories Design

  • My Role: Designer
  • Team Size: 3 person
  • Completion Date: January 2015
  • Duration: 4 months
  • Status: Proof of Concept and a scaled model
  • Brief: Designing wheelchair accessories for paraplegics with a rehabilitation approach

Design methodology

Double Diamond

Discover phase included:

  1. Secondary Research
  2. Interview and Questionnaires with disabled people at NGO of people with spinal cord injuries
  3. Simulation Exercises
  4. Storyboard
Problems of the disabled people
  1. Physical problems
  2. Problems in accomplishing daily routine tasks independently
Level of Injury and Extent of Paralysis
Storyboard
Ideation
Final Idea