Strand 3 - Analysis of existing products

Design Situation: Raynaud's Syndrome

Existing Product: Gloves 

Strengths:

It can help reduce the stress and low temperature when the limbs touch anything cold. 

Weaknesses:

It can only help reduce the stress and low temperatures however the affects will be roughly similar 

Opportunities:

I think that the average gloves would have been much more useful for this exact disorder if it were much thicker so it could help avoid it's specific cause

Threats:

Creating a more thicker version of gloves is less cost efficient

Creating thicker gloves is more time-consuming for both people and machines

Creating thicker plastic gloves is doing more harm than good as it will create more pollution and will become a complicated process as materials will have to be re-arranged