What is the responsibility of designers to obese people? As a previously marginalized but increasingly recognized and accommodated population, obese people have emotional and practical needs that offer specific design challenges.
Bridgeable’s team of social scientists, industrial designers, and healthcare professionals set out to investigate this callenge by conducting a long-term internal project that focused on the human experience. Leveraging leading-edge social science practices and ethnography, the team created Misfit, the first in a series of Bridgeable documentaries intended to reveal the process of designing for real-world needs. Based on the insights brought to life in Misfit, the team was able to confront preconceptions and biases around what design should provide to a target population to prototype seating concepts that are inspirational and realistic.
Bridgeable is a service design consultancy focused on helping clients bridge the gap between what we know about a complex problem and how we can solve it. Anchored in a multidisciplinary approach that is both holistic and practical, we collaborate with clients to understand the experience context and to translate that understanding into functional designs that improve the customer experience.
