E-Learning: Design Opportunities at Home Part 2

My Initial Design:

My refinements to the initial design:

My design of the final product:

E-Learning: Design Opportunities at Home Part 1

Design Appreciation

Good Design

Shampoo Bottle
This product is well designed as it has grooves on its side to enable the user to grip the shampoo bottle  when his hands are wet or soapy.

THIS IS THE LINK: Coroflot

Sofa Beds
This design is good as it is a sofa and bed at the same time, so it saves money, as well as space.

THIS IS THE LINK: IKEA Sofa Beds







Bad Designs

 The upright toothpaste bottle is a faulty design. Although it allows for the toothpaste bottle to stand upright, it is difficult to squeeze out the toothpaste and when there is just a little bit left, it is almost impossible to get it out. In this way, the form of the toothpaste bottle does not help its function.


THIS IS THE LINK: Toothpaste








 

This is a bad design as the toilet paper is too far from where the person is.

THIS IS THE LINK: Toilet

Ideation

Shape Borrowing
     Shape borrowing is a technique whereby a person uses the shape of an everyday object as an inspiration for designing a whole new creation. Shape borrowing can also be used when the designer does not know what shape his/her creation should be like. He/She might use objects in his/her everyday life to design the creation. For example, a person might design a table lamp with an elephant trunk as its stand.


S.C.A.M.P.E.R
     SCAMPER is a technique whereby people or designers use to modify and refine the functions or design of the creation. It also can be used to eliminate certain unwanted functions or parts of the creation.


Here is what SCAMPER stands for:
S - Substitute
C - Combine
A - Adapt
M - Modify
P - Put to other purposes
E - Eliminate
R - Reverse/Rearrange 


     SCAMPER can also be used to decide which design is best for production. For example, SCAMPER is used to refine each creation and design. And at the end of it all, the best creation is chosen based on the good things about it found out by SCAMPER technique.