Easysulin 인슐린 펜은 by Lin Zhong-Wei is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 철상 in 아이디어 및 컨셉 디자인 Competition Category.

철아이디어· 2023

Easysulin 인슐린 펜은

by Lin Zhong-Wei

Client: Lin Zhong-Wei

A' Design Award 철상 Winner in 아이디어 Category

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The Design

About Easysulin 인슐린 펜은

이지슬린(Easysulin)은 어린이를 위해 특별히 제작된 인슐린 주사펜으로, 같은 부위에 반복적인 인슐린 주사로 인해 발생하는 건강 문제를 효과적으로 해결할 수 있습니다. 줄자를 사용하여 환자의 배꼽에 위치시켜 주사를 맞아서는 안 되는 배꼽 주변 부위를 효과적으로 피합니다. 주사일수나 시간에 따라 일정한 거리와 각도로 빼낼 수 있어 제때에 인슐린을 주사해야 하는지 기억하는데 도움이 됩니다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 철상

Easysulin 인슐린 펜은, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 철상 수상작으로, 잘 디자인된 창작물에 기대되는 전문적·산업적 요건을 충족하는 좋은 디자인에 수여되는 권위 있는 인정입니다. 철상 수상작은 창작자의 뛰어난 기술, 높은 전문성, 전문가다운 이해, 창의적 역량을 보여 줍니다. Easysulin 인슐린 펜은, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 창작물로서 실용적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 철상 수상 디자인은 업계 모범 사례를 통합하며 노하우와 재능으로 연결된 유능한 기술적 특성을 갖추고 있습니다. Easysulin 인슐린 펜은, 이 작품은 철저함으로 존중받으며 삶의 질을 개선하여 세상을 더 나은 곳으로 만들도록 디자인되었습니다.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Easysulin is an insulin injection pen specifically designed for children, which can effectively solve the health problems caused by repetitive injections of insulin at the same site. According to the injection time, turn the morning, noon, or evening icons upward, and then pull out the tape measure corresponding to the number of weeks after placing the hole of the tape measure at the umbilicus and start to inject.
Dimensions & Packaging: Easysulin is suitable for Insulin cartridge on the market. You can directly put the cartridge into it, adjust the dose from the end and inject it. After the injection, take out the cartridge for next use. Its dimensions are 3cm*2.5cm*15cm.
Tags: insulin pen, diabetes, injection
Production Technology: The triangular pen body divides the morning, noon and evening injection angles into 120 degrees on average. The user can intuitively point the current time icon upwards, position the tape measure on the umbilicus and pull it out to the icon of the week day, which can achieve the stable distance interval both horizontally and vertically.

With the matching of the tape measure scale and the triangle shape, the injection positions can be distributed in the abdomen in sequence, and each injection point is more than 1 cm apart and 2.5 cm away from the umbilicus.
Design Challenge: Our design team's original concept was to design an insulin injection pen for children, making it more convenient and easy for children with diabetes to inject insulin. At the same time as our research, we discovered a problem with repeated site injection of insulin. If insulin is injected into the same site all the times, it may form adipose tissue thickening, and adipose hyperplasia or fat depression atrophy, which may lead to body's poor effectiveness of insulin absorption, making blood sugar more difficult to control. So we decided to design a better feature to solve this problem. In the end, we chose the combination of a tape measure and a spirit level to complete this function, and designed the appearance to be more suitable for children to operate.
Research: Our design team research the different types of products on the market and found that there are a very large number of products used by patients, but only a few types are widely circulated, which depends on the use value and price of the product. Then our team started asking those with diabetes, simulating the patient's movements and mood during injection, hoping to think about different solutions from their standpoint.
Besides, we had an interview with $$ Hospital registered Nurse- Ms. LIN. The conclusion of the issue is: Patients sometimes forget to record it, also it is not so convenient. She recommend: Design a safer and more convenient way is the most important goal. Because for those young patients, it is not so easy to follow our procedures every time.
Inspiration: According to the statistics, there are totally 1.1 million sufferers worldwide under the age of 20 with type 1 diabetes, including children and adolescents. None of the insulin injection products on the market have the function of positioning and remembering the injection location. Patients can only inject according to their own memory, which is quite unfriendly to the children without the relevant design assisted injection, and may easily cause health and safety problems.
Project Duration: The product development and design started in March 2022, and finished product testing in January 2023 in Taiwan.
Operation Flow: First, put the cartridge inside the Easysulin pen. Second, rotate the knob to adjust the required dose each using. Third, rotate the whole pen to put the corresponds time icon on the body of the pen upward. (That means the user can directly see the icon in first person view when ducking head) Finally, place the hole of the tape measure at the umbilicus. Pull out the tape measure corresponding to the number of weeks and inject.
Team Members: Lead Designer: Lin Zhong-Wei
Assistant Designer: Chen Yu-Ting, Hsueh Kai-Chieh, Hsun-Yu Chang
Advisor: Prof. Li Kai-Chu
Image Credits: Image #2: Licensor's Author Freepik.