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Introduction to website

Welcome to my website which is alerting consumer awareness on RGP (Rigid Gas Permeable), also know as corrective contact lenses. As a school based project, our brief is to create consumer awareness for a certain artifact (in my case, RGPs) to help the consumer make a well-rounded decision before buying the product.

I will be analyzing the contact by the Aspects of Design; function, aesthetics, economics and ergonomics. Each of these aspects will help shape your view and decision on purchasing the lens. I will also compare the RGP lenses to the more commonly know, soft lens. The right most link on the option bar at the top will show feedback and comments made from professional practitioners and actual wearers of the lens.

Notes on copyright; the website logo is not an official logo of the contact lens.

Aesthetics:
 

Definition of Aesthetics

“A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, esp. in art”

The Aesthetics of RGP corrective lenses are not as relevant to analyzing the lens compared to the other aspects of its design. Never-the-less, the aesthetics are still part of my analysis.

RGP lenses are semi-oval shaped, curved exactly to fit or shape your eye. They are transparent in colour allowing you to still be able to see out of them whilst they are on the eyeball.

Economics

Definition of Economics

“The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption and transfer of wealth”From the New Oxford American Dictionary

RGP corrective lenses are more expensive that soft contact lenses at $240.00 per lens. However the RGP corrective lenses last for up to 3 years each making the daily cost approximately 22c a day. The lenses last this long due to the allowance of air to pass through the lens and to the eyeball unlike soft contact lenses.

Consequently, in the long term, monthly disposable soft contact lenses can cost from one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half times the cost of RGP lenses and daily disposable contact lenses can cost up to six or seven times as much as one pair of RGP lenses.

Function

Definition of Function

“an activity or purpose natural to or intended for a person or thing: Bridges perform the function of providing access across water”From the New Oxford American Dictionary

RGP corrective contact lenses are designed to shape the wearers eye whilst they sleep, enabling them to see clearly throughout the day without the aid of contact lenses or glasses. The RGP corrective lenses are able to cure short and long sightedness. Also, if required they can also help improve colour deficiencies. 

Ergonomics:

Definition of Ergonomics

“How an object or artifact interacts with the human body”

Wearers of RGP corrective will, unlike most other lenses, put the contact in at night. This is so that while they are sleeping the lens will reshape the eyeball to 20/20 vision. When the wearer wakes up, using a miniature plunger, the contacts are removed from the eyes and the wearer will be about to see clearly throughout they day without the aid of contact lenses or glasses.

RGP corrective contact lenses, unlike soft contact lenses, talk a period for the eye to adjust to the lens, where as with soft lenses, there is immediate comfort. However, once the eye has adjusted to the lens, they are highly comfortable because they allow air to pass through the lens are reach the cornea.

Like using any type of lens, it will take a while for the wearer to get used to putting the lens on the eye. However, once used to the aspect of putting a lens into your eye, the GP corrective lens is easy to place in the eye and it is highly unlikely to 'pop' out.

Taking the lens out is especially easy with the help from a miniature plunger stick. To talk the lens out, you simply press the end of the plunger onto the lens and it will pull the lens out. Avoiding the possibility to accidentally touch the eye when trying to take the lens out with your fingers.

You store the lens in a specialized container where the lenses 'slip' into their holder and are suspended in specialized water. This makes them easy to get out and put in.