PROBLEM
Essilor identified that in rural India, eyesight was directly correlated to life expectancy. The compelling disconnect was that much of rural India has no local access to eyecare institutions.
SOLUTIONS
Designbox was hired as the the product design, development and manufacturing strategy team, and partnered with several entities around the world to fuse clever lens physics into a simple “dial-a-vision” device that allows users and providers alike to easily determine a user’s prescription. The healthcare provider, armed with an inexpensive device and a rucksack can then go door-to-door and quickly snap in the proper lenses to some stock frames and move on. The result was an award winning initiative for Essilor in the “See Change Challenge.”
WORK INCLUDED
design strategy, engineering, performance parameters, material research, product design, mechanical engineering, 3D CAD files, working models and international product development