the short

Well-Walk is the equivalent of my master’s thesis: carried out through the yearlong ME310 graduate series, this intensive group project asks students to pick a corporate-partnered project prompt, identify potential users and markets, prototype and refine a product, and bring it to market-ready execution by the end of the spring.
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Our group chose a prompt sponsored by Stanford’s Center for Design Research (and supported by Xiaomi and UBTech) which focused on telepresence and its possible implications for virtual human connection and working, which we quickly took in the direction of older adult care. As such, we focused our project on transforming walkers into connective devices, and built an integrative system that allows older adults to use their walkers in a way that feels most natural to them while comfortably using additional connective technologies, providing comfort and stability to both older adults and their loved ones.

As the team's resident product design student, my contributions to the project centered around UI/UX design, user research, and website building with back-end integration. I was responsible for all digital UI/UX as well as the majority of user interviews, which I found to be extremely rewarding.

for more

Our entire project process is documented in the ME310 Spring Design Document, so please click “take a look!” to learn more about the project, product, and process. I will warn you, this document is quite long, but I think it’s worth a skim!