Project
Redesigned healthcare UV sterilizer for intuitive home use.
Responsibilities & skills
Result
A ready to sell product that includes packaging and manufacturing process. It can sterilize any object in less than 3 seconds. 150 units manufactured.
Innovation
All UV sterilizers were used as a medical tool. It has never been an sterilizer designed for home use, where the user-product interaction works similar to a dish washer. The user only needs to setup the cycle and press start, avoiding the need to understand how UV lights work and making timing calculations depending on sizes and materials.
Additionally, it changes proportions to meet home user needs. It also improves and add security to ensure the safety of any type of user in a family.
Viable
As the investors were trying to test the product at first, 150 units were launched to the market, to test it and get feedback.
The market segmentation was chosen in a way we can develop the product, manufacture the first batch, and after selling all the unites, have enough money for a second batch of 500 units. That was a big challenge when thinking about manufacturing processes. I was trying to design and sell a high quality industrialized product, avoid using molds or industrialized processes. With a mix between industrialized processes and hand-made approaches, we ended up manufacturing and selling 150 units in less than 3 weeks.
Feasible
The main challenge while designing this product, was making it look and feel like a high end product using a hand-made manufacturing approach.
The product has was designed to use 14 squares of galvanized steel. It only need 6 folds and 18 holes to put it together. The sizes and proportions were chosen to satisfy user needs, but mainly, to modulate the steel sheet. By doing that, we can request the steel manufacturer to sell a steel sheet divided in 16 pieces. That wont increase the steel price and saves us hundreds of dollars on machining. Then we just need to add some folds, holes and paint to assemble all the pieces together.
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