Team
Victoire Hespel
Marie Cordonnier
Pauline Boittiaux
Raphael Yrieix
Alexis Lhomme
Julie Mollon
Challenge
Designing a range of product for the elderly adapted to their bathroom. With the constraint of a 4m² room we had to visit our user and understand their needs. Working with an industrial partner allowed us to provide a more accurate answer.
Solutions
We went for a low technology sollution to better match with both our users and the market our industrial partner targets. We proposed a range of four products that concerns different activities inside the bathroom.
As the project was really user centred we needed to go out and meet the people in person to better understand their needs and worries in their bathroom. We also performed shadowing to see by ourselves where the main painpoints were as our target was often in denial.
We interviewed 8 elderly and 2 caregivers.
Our design process was splitted into 3 phases :
Analysis · Creativity · Development
Feel free to have a look at the miro board for this project.
We selected the ideas we thought were the most relevant amongst the first ideation and develloped them further.
Similarities between some of the concepts were spoted hence the choice to go for a range of 4 products.
Amongst the 4 products I participated throughout the developpment of two of them.
The range of product was an idea the industrial partner was enthusiastic about.
Helps the elderly to keep balance while showering. The handle also prevent the bathroom products from falling.
Allows for easier step over of the bathtub with an handle and mid level step. The elderly can also sit on it while dressing up.
How might we offer safety through handles across the bathroom in a less stigmatizing way?
We tried to put ourselves in the skin of our users by adding weights to our articulations and recreating the space of a 4m² bathroom.
This helped us realize the real constraints 4m² and what less mobility represented.
We were able to go back to our user with mockups of our concept to try.
Their feedbacks were essential during in our development phase.
We wanted to match the industrial partner's identity and have non expensive products to manufacture. This came down to realizing scaled 3D models with few diverse parts and easy assembly in mind.
I was tasked to realize the 3D models of the stair valet and the shower accessory.
