Yue Wang

Industrial Design, 2016

Senior lifting mobility solution

Senior mobility issues affect every aspect of senior life. They face inconveniences to basic movements such as walking, sitting and standing to hand-assisted movement like going upstairs and picking up items. More importantly, most mobility issues can result in severe safety concerns.

Current products, like walkers, only focus on solving one mobility problem at a time. Although it helps seniors walk, problems still remain when it comes to switching between sitting and standing. Walking, standing and sitting have yet to be addressed as whole, which has ignored by most designers.

The Levelator provides a straight forward solution to align the orientation of walking and sitting together and enhances the user experience at the aspect of accessibility and comfortability.

Yue Wang is a Dean’s list student with an industrial design major and a minor in Entrepreneurship. He found passion in multiple design fields and cultivates himself as a designer with solid skills and mature thoughts. Yue has years of visual design experience for the Ohio State University, as well as the Adobe representative. He is looking forwards to starting his career as an industrial designer and user experience designer to enrich his experience in multiple design fields.