Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims
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The Importance of Design Thinking
The Jaipur Lim knee was designed to bring down the cost of a single axis knee. The original design was to be $25 it ended up being 35 overall for this full knee polymer filled nylon knee that they eventually develop. But I think the interesting design thinking feature here was how they began thinking about this not from the functional needs of the patient but their emotional needs. And so there's a lot of the next stages of design thinking you can see play out here.
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