ORGANIZATION RISD-MIT
Restructuring a Tired Business Model with Mobiliti Crutches
CHALLENGE
Create an innovative product and business model around crutches in the American hospital system.
Create an innovative product and business model around crutches in the American hospital system.
DELIVERABLE
A modular forearm crutch that can be easily customized by hospitals and delivered to patients.
A modular forearm crutch that can be easily customized by hospitals and delivered to patients.
DESIGN FEATURES
Easy to store and minimal, these crutches blend in with an urban, moving lifestyle.
BUSINESS MODEL
Mapping the ideal product flow, based off user research.
FUTURE
Although no longer in development, we know these ideals inspire future crutch designs.
Designed in collaboration with the MIT Product Design & Development team: Ina Kundu, MIT; Joshua Shiau, RISD; Jenny Wanger MIT/Sloan; Clararose Voigt, MIT/LGO; Michael Macmillian, MIT/LGO; Anna Cheimets, MIT.
Process, easy-to-read, at elioicaza.com.