Hello, my name is Kwame Bright Frimpong and I’m a final-year Product Design student. As a designer, my work mainly focuses on accessible design and making life easier for people, especially the elderly and people with disabilities. I love the process of speaking with different users and understanding their problems as much as I can and getting hands-on to develop suitable solutions that respond best to their needs.
My favourite aspects of my practice are speaking with users, physical prototyping and 3D modelling. Through prototyping, I’m able to play around with various shapes and forms and see what functions best and also what is most comfortable to interact with for the user. I have a few aspirations, but they boil down to helping people with my craft and offering a new experience to their world.
AeroAccess Seat
AeroAccess Seat is an aisle transfer device that is designed to support wheelchair users when boarding economy-class seating on commercial aeroplanes during travel. The device uses a sliding seat with in-built rollers to travel over portable rail tracks that are placed on the aircraft seats. These tracks maintain controlled but free lateral movement.
The device is to be used with the support of two assistants to effectively and safely carry out the process. The device combines the ability to transport the user down the tight aisle space, to adjust its height to match that of the aircraft seat and the lateral transfer to remove the physical demand placed on assistants and the chance of injury to passengers with reduced mobility.
