Industrial design is an essential part of the interaction between a user and an object of use. The housings of a respiratory-therapy assistive product were designed under two approaches. The first is a classic approach where the housing follows the technical function (UBICU1); the second is an interdisciplinary effort (UBICU2) so that form and function integrate effectively around a user-centered objective: the patient’s adherence to therapy from the start of the process. It was found that both the classic and the interdisciplinary design approaches produce usable outputs that the user adopts. The interdisciplinary work is considered to provide greater flexibility in the design process in an integral way, and to allow optimization of ergonomics, interaction, assembly, and manufacturing.
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