Archive for the ‘Product Design’ Category

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Bill Buxton: Product design by sketching user experience

I assume that everybody at the TU Delft heard from the presentation that Bill Baxton (Principal researcher Microsoft – http://www.billbuxton.com) has done on monday (nov 19) at the Industrial Design faculty, entitled “Product Design by sketching user experience”.

For those of you who missed this very interesting lecture, I recorded it and placed it on the internet for you guys to watch. Video quality is not optimal, but it’s more about the story being told than anything else, so for that goal it’s good enough.

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Thursday, June 14th, 2007

DreamWhipper: Complete product development of a hand powered cream whipper

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Relevant Keywords:TU Delft Logo

Product development, household, manufacturing, technical research, technical development, prototyping

Design Goal:

As part of a design exercise at the TU Delft, we were given the task to use a 1928 patent of a cream whipper as a starting point for our design case. We were to use the patent as much as we could and translate the design of the cream whipper into our days in terms of production, assembly, materials, styling and features.

Project duration and team:

250 hours, 6 industrial design engineers (David Güiza Caicedo, Wouter Drost, Roos van Rhijn, Erik Jansen, Marie-Louise Brantjes)

Methods Used:

  • Product analysis
  • Technical research
  • Brain writing
  • lo-fi prototyping
  • 3D modeling and Rapid prototyping
  • User testing

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Friday, October 6th, 2006

Skil Caulkgun: A new battery powered product for Skil’s portfolio

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Relevant Keywords:Skil Logo

Product analysis, power tools, product development

Design Goal:

To make a design proposal for a battery powered caulk gun that can be added to the product portfolio of power tools producer Skil.

Project duration:

125 hours

Methods Used:

  • Product analysis
  • Morphological charts
  • 3D modeling

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Monday, October 17th, 2005

Nuntius: A newspaper delivery tricycle

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Relevant Keywords:TU Delft Logo

Newspapers, delivery, product development, technical development

Design Goal:

As part of a design exercise at the TU Delft I was asked to design a human powered vehicle with the main purpose of transporting goods. I decided to develop a newspaper delivery trike.

Project duration:

150 hours

Methods Used:

  • Collage making
  • Morphological charts
  • Technical detailing
  • 3D modeling

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Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Baller: Concept furniture for children

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Relevant Keywords:Hema

Children’s furniture, design competition, plastic, conceptual design

Design Goal:

Design a piece of furniture for children to be produced in plastic and go along with the general Hema style:  simple, colorful products, with a high quality and a low price.

Project duration:

75 hours

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Monday, December 6th, 2004

Gothic Clock: Free formgiving exercise

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Relevant Keywords:TU Delft Logo

Goth lifestyle, wall clock, free form-giving exercise, clay modeling

Design Goal:

As part of a free design exercise at the TU Delft we were asked to research a specific lifestyle (goths in my case) and to design a daily use product that would fit the form language of the given lifestyle.

Project duration:

75 hours

Methods Used:

  • Interviews
  • Sketching
  • Clay modeling

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