
2022
ADAPTable
The goal of this design is to create adaptive clothing that is affordable and sustainable. The target audience is young adults who lack fine motor skills or have a condition making it difficult to dress themselves. There are many adaptive clothing options for older people, but young adults are often overlooked. This design resolves that issue.
Soft Goods
Product Design
Branding & Identity
Client /
GT Sophomore Studio
Brianna is a 25 year old who is living with POTS, an autoimmune disease with a variety of life-altering symptoms. One of these symptoms is a lack of fine motor skills.
Fine motor skills are used for everyday tasks such as fastening buttons, tying shoes, and using a fork. A lot of independence comes from these seemingly simple tasks, independence that is lost for people who lack fine motor skills like Brianna.
A survey conducted on 103 participants showed that on average, people who lack fine motor skills value ease of getting dressed at a 9.2 (10 being the highest importance). The general population average was only 6.0 on the same scale.
Ease of dressing is an obvious pain-point for Brianna, so she looks into adaptive clothing options. Adaptive clothing is designed to minimize difficult clasping methods to make changing easier, mostly for the caregiver of the user.
She only finds grey outfits that look like they belong in a nursing home, which is commonly where they are worn. She is young and like to express herself by what she wears. Her mom being her caregiver affects style options, since her mom ultimately gets to decide what clothes to put on Brianna.
The ADAPTable clothing line is designed to be discrete and fashionable adaptive clothing for the often looked-over population of people under the age of 40 who lack fine motor skills. It boosts the independence and confidence of the user, while saving caregivers time. Not only are the clothes more stylish, but they also conceal the adaptive clasps to minimize concerns of judgement from the general public. There are even decoy buttons to blend in with the clothes of peers, something that is very important to younger users.








