Sebastian Boloña

Industrial Design, 2019

With the natural process of aging, we begin to experience physical limitations to a certain degree of mobility. People who use medical walkers as assistive devices are not able to properly climb stairs. When attempting to do so, the body is forced to clash with the walker, which becomes wobbly, and stops you from moving forward.

Uphold, the assistive device that provides mobility aid to the quickly increasing elderly population is a product focused on safety and aims to lower the risk of falls in level differences.

What started as an evocative idea, evolved into an effort that attempts to solve the inevitable problem of falling. Uphold’s first version is a walker with a “U” shaped frame and two levers. This design feature allows the front legs to retract and extend in length in hopes to provide the user with greater stability when ascending and descending stairs or other level differences.

Sebastián Boloña is an Industrial Designer from Guayaquil, Ecuador. He aims to apply his technical knowledge and skills to create products that are well-crafted and thoughtfully designed in order to create meaningful product experiences that connect brands to the physical world.