Peer comments: Postal present

Claudia Zhang
Shanshan Wang
Danielle Taouk
Greg Shar
Vivian Shao

Bad Design

Postal Present

(sorry for the colour on my posters again, but i really dont know why and how to fix this problem.)

I did a clock for my postal present project. It is made of polyproperlyne and felted wool, they are joined by velcro dots. The numbers on the clock can be adjusted to any angle the users like. So it is a fun clock to use.

Upcycling: peer comment

Julian Chow
Julia Xiao
Danielle Taouk
Stanley Wong
Shanshan Wang

Upcycling

(i dont know why, but somehow the blue areas in the poster turned into orange, and the oranges turned into blue after i uploaded the poster on here.)

Anyways...

I chose to upcycle take away containers, because i found that they're everywhere and very hard to get rid of. I played with different shapes and sizes of them. And i thought i could make good use of its transparent quality by making a room divider. They are joint together by wires. It's best to hang it somewhere with sunshine.

Richard Seymour + Dick Powell: Designing dream machines

This video showed each stages of how a product design process is, from research all the way to manufacture. By showing 3 different projects they had, the bsa scooter, the india scooter and the kettle+food mixer set, it showed that the importance of communication. First stage of the design process is research, you'll need to talk to your target consumer, the manufacturer, your client as well as research. Then you'll need to make communicating sketches, which can fully explain your ideas to your client. If your client approved, you'll have to make welly done foam models, which can communicate with yourself and fellow designers to see what can be improved. After that you'll make need to make a functional model that you can present to your client that shows what the real thing will be like. Every step in the design process is about how to communicate your ideas to your client, your co-workers and yourself. Even the final product is to communicate to your target consumer.
It was amazing to see how Seymour and Dick make so well communicated sketches and models. As well as the no limit brain storm session at the beginning of the video. As a first year industrial design student, this video is important for us to watch because it showed us how a designers design process should be and it told us how important "communication" is for design.

Annie Leonard: The story of stuff

URL: http://storyofstuff.com/

This video is surely an alarm, a reminder for everyone what we are doing everyday are harming out own earth. Annie is right that, we won't be aware how harmful it is until we know the whole story. Especially the example of the $4.90 radio. I guess everyone like bargain and good quiality stuff, but have we ever think how can things be so cheap? Nope?! After watching the video, as a consumer and a industrial designe student myself, it reminded me alot of things as well as opened up my mind. As a consumer, we should buy what we really need rather than buying just to follow trends. Cause we buy in, we throw out, and the sufferer will only be us or our further generations. As for designers, rather than trying to deisgn stuff to tempt people keep buying new ones, should think more about sustainability and how to make things environmental friendly. We dont need that much material to make us happy, to have good lifes.

Ross Lovegrove: The power and beauty of organic design

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWqkKYwvTNw

I admire the passion of Ross Lovergrove has in the beauty of organic desgin. In the video, he said his office is like a natural history museum + design work place. It's very interesting that he gets inspiration from skeletal structures like dinosaurse bones to design elegant chairs. Also the bone structual and cell structual photos he showed were quite inspiring. The form of those natural things really is beautiful and has its own unique elegance. After seeing the video, I;m interested in seeing more of his works.

I also agree with him that companies should start looking into organic and sustainable design, as it opens up a lot possibilities. Like organic forms, shapes, materials.

Peer Comments

Guida Arezzi:
http://arezziguida.blogspot.com/

Eugenius Lai:
http://lai-eugenius.blogspot.com/

Susanna Li:
http://www.susannali.blogspot.com/

Claudia Zhang:
http://claudiaides.blogspot.com/

Lucy Zhang:
http://www.ides-lucyzhang.blogspot.com/

Project 1 - Experience Enrichment

POWER CLOUD

The poster & 4 pleasure analysis

The mood board
POWER CLOUD's target market is young office ladies. This group of young women is new to office life, apart from work, they have to to hang out with friends, spend time with family, may still have to study, or some may already have kids to take care. So they are a group thats quite stressful and lack of sleep. POWER CLOUD is a cushion different from others, specially designed for this group of young office ladies to have some quality sleep during their break time.

Theres a pocket at the back of the cushion for you to put your hand in to sleep with. With this, when you're deep in sleep, you cushion won't slip out of your hand. Yet, give you a better support. Moreover, inside the pocket, the top layer is fluffier that the botton. Cause when you're asleep, you hand might sweat. Sweaty hands and fluffy fabric just dont match, do they? The spiral shape at the front of the cushion is made of very soft, cotton fabric. Also, the spiral shape is designed to support your neck comfortablly. It forms a nest shape, that makes you want to put your head on it whenever you see it.

Yves Behar: Designing Objects that Tell Stories

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGn8F4j6pH8

In my opinion, this video is important for designers, because Behar used various design projects to show that design isn't just about styling, creating something that simply look beautiful. Rather it should be combining the stories into design, adding values for the product to be exsist.

Both the Y water and the $100 laptop have a reason for them to exsist. The Y water is to promote healthy drinking for kids, to keep them away from soft drinks. The shape of the bottle is very organic and pleasing, also the bottle can actually turn into toys afterwards. Turning the bottle into a collactable toy is really a good reason for kids to keep drinking that drink. As for the $100 laptop, its purpose is to promote educating with technology for the poor children. 'one laptop per children', to design low cost laptops for poor children is such a meaningful thing to design. It's not just about enhancing pleasure for users, but its to provide them things that they dont have before.

I agree with him that, design is not just about styling, but to connect to people and designing products that have values are more meaningful.

Don Norman: Emotional Design

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQEoJaLQRA

In this video, Don Norman is telling designers to design things thats not just functional, but pretty as well. As he said, people used to say "norman is ok. but if you followed what he said, everything would be usable but it would be ugly." He then explained how adding emotion to design make things so different. "When you're happy, you're more creative." It is so true that psychology affects alot on how we choose to buy something. He said "I dont know what it is, but i want it." This kind of thoughts always appears in our minds, when we saw something that looks unsual, fun and eye catching.

Norman then moved on to explain the 3 ways of thinking to deisgn an emotional product:

-Visceral
The visual appearance of a product is the first impression that gives consumers. As we all make assumptions subconsciously, a very appealing visual appearance will attracts us to look furthur into it. It may also a major factor that causes us want to buy it. Again, like what Norman said "I dont know what it is, but i want it." Humans are built in brains to like things that appeals to them.

-Behavioural
This is depends on the product if it's designed user friendly. If the user can control the product confidently. Behavioural experience is achieved through how the product intereacts with each individuals, so it must be thoughtfully through how the user will want to use without knowing anything about the product.

-Reflective
It's a subconscious analysis on whether the user will like the product or not. It's about the image that the society gives the product, not necessary the actual product. Which also means, a successful design is not just about functional, asthetic, emotion, but it's also about the connection with the society, with the people.

This video really opened up my mind on designing a product. Designing is not simply just to design something new, but it's to design things that we live with, that can bring fun and convenience to the world. Psychology is also another to look into when designing things.

Good Design Poster

David Kelly: Human centred design

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXndL3TNCmo

The video is important for designers to view as it reminds designers not just to focus on technological objects. But also how technology can work with human lifes, to respond to what we really need and want. It keeps designers updated on what other designers out there are designing, what technologies do we have now.

All the design projects in the video were all very fascinating. i particularly like the "liquid crystal display" and the "magic mirror" in the dressing room. I am sure that most of us have complained about having to walk back and forth to show friends what we tried on, hoped we could see what the back looks like without twisting our necks. Here we go now, 2 very thoughtful and wonderful design that really designed to suit human's needs/wills. Also the project on attempt to design ideal office cubicles, the features in the cubicle turned boring little office workspaces into a different world. Work suddenly became more fun, more lively and more motivating. The design will definetly change manys work place into a total different atmosphere. Again, it helped to change and make humans life better.

Good designs aren't just about high technological products, but its about how one put things together and work with techonologies to make it so different.

Shape of a scent

Words to describe the scent was Feminine, powerful, intoxicate & linger.

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