Summary
In this video, the founder of Protege, a company that designs comfortable high heels, shares her personal experience with uncomfortable high heels and her journey to creating a solution. She took apart used high heels to understand their construction and started designing her own prototypes. It took her 18 months and 67 prototypes to finalize the design. The founder has a background in mechanical engineering and approaches shoe design from a comfort and engineering perspective rather than the artistic approach of fashion school. The designed high heels have interchangeable ankle straps for versatility. The founder believes her technology can revolutionize the shoe industry and hopes that major designers will adopt it.