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Duration:
14 weeks project 2025 Fall
Focus:
This innovative conceptual product boosts mountaineering safety with enhanced cushioning and structural body support for superior comfort, featuring a textile-integrated emergency lighting system.
Skill Set:
Brand Research
Photo Realistic
Hand Sketch
Tape drawing prototype
Story Telling
AI assistance drawing
Ortovox
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Learn Protect Connect
Mountaineering Safety
Ortovox
Crevasses Danger(Denali)
Denali's crevasses are deadly hidden glacier cracks that collapse under snow bridges, plunging climbers 40–100+ feet to injury, hypothermia, or death.
of fatalities on Denali are from falls.
45%
+50%
of deaths occur on descent.
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What if mistake saves life?
How could conscious overcome obsession?
What if mistake saves life?
Crevasses pose a severe danger, and in such extreme conditions, human errors are common
—yet a single mistake can prove fatal.
What if our design transforms that mistake into a life-saving opportunity?
Crevasses Danger(Denali)
Crevasses pose the greatest danger in alpine environments. Victims who fall into them often end up hanging suspended.
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The rope or harness cutting off blood circulation to the legs.
Pete's Fun Sketch
Pete's ''fun" sketch principle: ideation for problem solving, fun sketch to innovate based on styling.
Mountaineering Harness Field Trip
Lines of extension
User Testing + Mockup
Leveraging sketches and mock-ups to test how users interact with the design.
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Extra Cushion
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Back Support
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Extended Leg Support
User Testing + Mockup
Leveraging sketches and mock-ups to test how users interact with the design.
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