Clearly this holistic approach to design can create game changing products that provide a tremendous return on investment. But according to Béhar, design has another role to play as a way to give. His work on the design of a $100 laptop for One Laptop Per Child is a familiar example of this notion. Fuseproject was also involved in the See Better to Learn Better project which provides free eyeglasses to students in Mexico where wearing glasses is often looked at as a handicap. Béhar and his team took on the challenge of designing a pair of glasses that are affordable, durable, customizable and “cool” enough that they could overcome this stigma. The result is a product that addresses all of these issues for the price tag of just $7 per pair.

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