IDES1031-Project 1-Comments Links-2010-9-21

This is a post that show hyperlinks of the student blogs I commented on:


http://z3326626.blogspot.com/2010/09/project-1.html?showComment=1285067758404_AIe9_BF6HMDBNshVaURkTLsddLxEV_ZdJQPrrLava9C6itmUrOXWHzgsCxiCeJ_IOjFHZmFBOLGIGcJ78nnOSNnIafurQ3FI6Ad0N-NnS2tNNvk6-Lzob6wQzcIg6UNm4WVHWhcNQprgZamSWMUi5zMIv5LHbZtc93vv_enVxrwf0ixLT_Hm1ZfhTbk2l4nculsd8GxihJoKNLmnumA_zgPJfavABNoWnw4xJE33c1SgZP1Y7YiLSy585JWjbxp0EXZf3sl1lVpvQMEdSaKxFXqH0bPPKpZiE_f89gfv5qfiLzNZGHy4vVXR6C_FTWKD0JSWFPZ3Fq6AsSL43C_tAKVpCAZkc8MmMNDB-ARZsckGU0W1ST4YIAS9YUnk1ZKGsq3xhWKdPw7h63uq7GTMppEljVlh_mdzQQPB9qS6UANYlGjafwPX4kB8CqytuwQb0Wj19kbu3F6GK-8yznNxcsdulcGcx7xdIcBg2-nmebo--mN9c71IuDhl0BLOiRU5tIuCto-X5W5O8o9uAjR5NKAdGizMDXkZ3_4_nXJ3WPydvFNuZGGqv8F8Sr2Z2E0XxeIv7BJIx4VRid_4983wLvW2bpzjoEtSJbIL_QnEBDWEePmP-1TKWkfl6274baFOSnb0-8hUGONspm--0choM1-uynbEAULqqpyjEHHn3VKCFVryu9c9gGTcP6EzfaK32H0G2XAw-bG1bnEabfGtUSrl1ZLez_PJurSFAzPmNudLDZqAJtNz6WoTp0e4TYO4-92GCFn_12ELyBqYIt98tlOpKhLaUTv7lL1oa93x-YZHOtwiQqevmpAHL0HQnu-fTpLy2vMrb7z8EoE-i49ZqoRRbEKP290bHDRjAq_Ac2IaZOLdYnYXbkpTbEq8JyppTLNgkEx6gGkjvNToK3h-SOiG2cfHtp3NKf7gOV-p6cHbFQXsOxlLbREsDdpxwaUI1CdjSCzsR2329e3qKQXEyFiqomdkKdYBZLXtEeGeUaT-6Z6NuXf8szQ#c5383531936202299061




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IDES1031-Project 1-Experience Enrichment-2010-9-21

Context of use

Moodboard

Hero Shot

Pleasure Analysis

Rationale:

Target user:

For this product, I have set the target market to the population whose age is in the range of 23 to 30. The round-shaped accessories might be attractive to them, also for same type of decoration. The color of shining gold and silver will catch their eyes with the metallic feeling as well.

Introduction of the Product:

Color: The initial idea of the product was designing a girl-liked nail tool with the color of pink and black. However, I realized that what I have to do is not just at our age but beyond. Then I set the target to the age range beyond 20 years old, turn the view to the working ladies rather than the teenage girls. In terms of fitting the age range that the product needs, the color has been changed from pink to gold and it meets the target users’ like.

Shape: The whole shape of the product is like an oval with the decoration of the waving pattern. And the whole idea is to make the product looks curvy.

Function: Besides, this nail tool is supposed to be multi-function. First of all, the back of the tool has a sanding surface whose function is to shaping the nails while doing the manicure. Secondly, there is a mini brush at the top of the tool in terms of cleaning out the dusts that be produced while doing the nail beauty process. Last but not least, the nail tool has a slightly diagonal edge in order to remove the dirt that hidden in the seams of the nails with the slant angle of the edge.

Material: This nail tool is based on the material named bare wood. The brush is standing on the clay. And the sanding surface is made out of a piece of sanding paper and is pasted on the wood.

Idea: The idea of the product is from the key, the ladies from contemporary society more like the accessories which multiple functions and the mini size rather than the stuffs that weigh heavy and hard to fit into the ladies’ bags. Thus, this product is supposed to fit into ladies’ bags, even the purses of the women. In a word, it is convenient for any lady to carry with.

Also, this product is suggested to be put into lady’s bag or even a purse. Women who love beauty will find this mina nail tool useful and convenient in their daily life.

Real model of the All-In-One Nail Tool

Size of the Tool is like a key

Technical Drawing

IDES1031-T6d-Video Reflection-2010-9-14

I always think that every object has its life and it tells a story of a designer. This point of view is also agreed by Henry Ford which is the starter of Ford Car Manufacturing Corporation. When people see one product, they start thinking about the functions and whether it is good to look and use. Furthermore, some people might start thinking about the stories of the designers rather than start using them. Therefore, the whole process of manufacturing a product is such an important part of a product.

 Going through the whole video, few points of views impressed me a lot. Firstly, a good design has to be innovative. Designing stuff involves a long road of designing, making, redesigning and doing a final product. If one final product that designed by someone looks common in every same kind of other products, it will be a tough thing for not only the designer himself, but also for the consumers. Innovative is an important part for a product and it decides the value of a product itself.

Secondly, making a product useful is crucial because once a product is hard to use, who will purchase? Useful stuffs always make the users happy to use and the time for a person to use will last longer than the poorly-designed stuff.

Followed by another important aspect is a good design is supposed to be aesthetic. People sometimes like the beautiful appearance rather than the functions themselves. For example, a girl who is young and do not really know what a good eraser should be in function, she might choose to purchase the one which is beautiful but not good in quality rather than the one with good quality but looks common.

Design confusion is a project that we did last week. A lot of design stuffs are confusing people and make the products hard for people to use in some ways. Thus, for every single product, it is important for the users to understand what it for.

I think every family has its own family heirloom. It might be a treasure thing or just a small comb.

We have found that those stuffs are all last long and good in quality. Therefore, a good and long last design should be produced to be long-lived. So, the material and the way to produce should be taken into consideration and to be important.

Nowadays, people concentrate on some environmental friendly materials to make the products. Also, the idea of less material with the best use is also promoted to the public and it raises people’s awareness across the world. Thus, some designs that fit the requirements are coming out more and more often.

Turning to another aspect, businessman keeps designer company every day. Once a product comes out, it has to be published to the purchasing market, so it is important to communicate to the people who are doing business.

Designing is about affect people and their life. So it should be effective and changeable.

IDES1031-T5-Design Confusion-10-8-31

[Design Confusion- Doorknob]

IDES1031-T6c-Video Reflection-2010-8-24

This is the video about the illustration of stuff process. All the stuffs that produced move through a system which is formed by 5 separate procedures, with extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal respectively. Moreover, this whole process is called material economy, that is, where does those materials come from and where to go.



In this procedure, people, as a crucial role, who live and work in this process. In this huge field, people from government and corporations are mostly effective to the whole process. Government control people in various ways, as well as they also have the rights to control the process to operate. Besides, corporations affect the operation of government because they have the side power towards to whole market.


With the process operating, what it brings is not only the benefits, but also some negative effects, like running out of resources. Using too much stuff may cause the limitation for people to use more resources in the future. There is a survey that reveals almost one-third of the natural resources had been used up by human beings until now. Also, toxics are another serious problem when producing the goods. 100, 00 kinds of synthetic chemicals are added into products for people to use. That means, some of the chemicals are directly touched by people’s skin. So, eventually, those chemicals must affect next generation indirectly. Also, in terms of the normal operation of the whole process, government encourages people to go shopping rather than staying at home. So, some shops are encouraging people to purchase by decreasing the price of products. This process has to keep the externalized costs. From distribution part to consumption one, it is the most important process. However, 99% of the trashes are produced rather than some valuable stuff. In fact, some products are produced to be like planned obsolescence, which is called ‘Designed for the dump’. This means those products are designed to be quickly used and thrown away. Corporations encourage people to purchase by changing the way the stuff looks like shoes and radios. We live in a lifestyle of go shopping and working and going home and watching TV, then the advertisements tell us to purchase, followed with going shopping again! Such a circulate process! Furthermore, the disposal of the stuff is crucial but usually we make this procedure money cost and resource cost. We burn all the trash or cover them. How could we have a better living environment by doing this just for its convenience?


As far as I am concerned, what we should concentrate is not only how to encourage people to go more shopping, but caring about the area that we are now living in. Although we've already have some concerns like sustainability, equity, green chemical, zero waste, closed loop production, renewable energy and local living economics. But we haven’t really focused on those issue, the bad influences are still there! As the earth, which is our home, is becoming sick day by day. As the citizens like us, we are able to and have to create something to save our family but not just caring about what we could gain from it.

IDES1031-T6b-Video Reflection-2010-8-17

Emotions play a crucial role in people’s daily life. Donald Norman introduces the design of emotions which called emotional design which indicates products with the pleasure elements. Donald analyzes products in a holistic way to include their attractiveness, their behavior, and the image they present to the user -- and of the owner.



Firstly, he shows an example of the juicer that designed by Phillips Starck which is quite famous that made by Alessi. He indicates that this product is not functional but it is a fun. He would rather choose to put this at the entrance of his house but not for juice making. Thus, we can see from this, a good product could be with no function but it has to make people fun.


Following product is a ping-pang desk, a vivid sea picture with some fishes could be seen on the ‘screen’ of the desk. When the ball touches the desk, the fishes swim away from the point. The idea is great but it is not actually possible to be used when the official ping-pang competition happens because the speed of the ball hits the screen is fast. Thus, we can say, pleasant things make life better but they might not be functional.


Three ideas that Donald illustrated was visceral, behavioral and reflective elements. A good product that the consumers really want and need is viscerally like. Therefore, the designers have to make the products more fun rather than functional in some aspects to fulfill consumers’ needs and wants. Moreover, behavioral element, which means products should benefit people’s behaviors. Talking about reflective element, it is important to see people’s first reflection towards the product and the appearance is crucial for a product.


In conclusion, emotion design benefits people to have fun with the products that they have or intend to have.

IDES1031-T6a-Video Reflection-2010-8-3

After watching the video which contains the introductions of many new products that introduced by David Kelley on Human centered design, I was totally impressed by several designs. David Kelley encourages the concept of designing the products that is human centered, which is a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of end human of a product are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. The chief difference from other product design philosophies is that user-centered design tries to optimize the product around how users can, want, or need to use the product, rather than forcing the users to change their behavior to accommodate the product.



Firstly, I was pretty impressed by the design products and technologies that revealed in the retail shop of PRADA. The designer’s idea is to store cultural role as well as a retail one. To be more specific, the design concept of changing room is my favourite. It says liquid-crystal glass becomes opaque at touch of a switch, switching to transparent allows for the outside to review. It is such a convenient design that allows consumers to change the clothes in the room and save the strength and time for consumers to open the doors and go into the doors. Also, it is also convenient for people who are outside of the changing room and waiting for people to change the clothes because the attractive new design may let them forget the boring time they spend on waiting. Once the new technology is introduced in the famous clothing retail store, it must bring a lot of people to come to visit which benefit the profits of the retail store and also to the company of course.


Secondly, another invention called ‘magic mirror’ makes me a lot of thinking. Consumers especially for most of women care about all the directions to see themselves whether she could like better or any special by wearing any clothes. The memory on the mirror could make consumers to see how is he or she looks like when he or she turn around, which means they are able to see themselves in this mirror from all directions. Isn’t that make the consumers act like a movie star?

Last but not least, the product called Spyfish impresses me as well. The idea of this product is try to make it not only look like a fish but have the functions that a fish could have or more than a fish could have. From the screen, the designer tries to bring the experience of being on a boat going under the water. Two cameras are installed on both sides of the ‘fish’. The designer gives the idea of both interface and product itself.


From my point of view, the designers try to get the products the emotion to show how to use which is human centered. Making the products to communicate with the users with themselves is another point. With the technology improves, we are looking forward to seeing more design stuff that are human centered to benefit not only consumers, but also the whole world.