Julián Noreña 

Cranioencephalic protection systems for land-based gravity sports.
This is a thesis in Industrial Design derived from research in ergonomics and user-centered design, focusing on land-based gravity sports with a direct emphasis on downhill longboarding.

The helmet is identified as an essential element of protection and safety to support the athlete's integrity and as a key design element to ensure not only these ergonomic factors but also comfort during practice, thus generating greater confidence and reflecting this in performance.

Throughout the thesis, design elements such as morphology, aerodynamics, athlete perception and opinion, and the evaluation of materials, techniques, and processes that can be used to produce the system conventionally are addressed.

This thesis is projected as a research and design model to follow for the evaluation of needs and factors required by a sports user, in addition to aiming to show that with comprehensive design focused on the user, affordable materials and common processes, extraordinary protection systems can be made for practitioners, since ergonomics should not be a requirement of desire in the design, nor an added value, but an obligation of the product.