COLLECTION 2014
劉 彥岑
H a n s Ye n - t s e n L i u
劉 彥 岑 Yen-Tsen Liu +886 912 223 271 imyentsen@gmail.com http://www.yentsen.com
2010 - 2014
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Department of Industrial and Commercial Design Bachelor of Industrial Design
2012 - Present
National Taiwan University Department of Sociology Bachelor of Sociology
My name is Yen-Tsen Liu. I was born in Keelung in 1992, and grew up in
My Dream is to Design for the Real World and
Taoyuan. I have loved reading and drawing since I was young. When I was
to Improve the Quality of People’s Life.
a high school student, I decided to take the path for becoming an excellent designer. I entered National Taiwan University of Science and Technology(NTUST) for majoring in industrial design in 2010, then received a series of
Problem Solving
Problem Investigating and Defining
User Experience Research
Method of Social Research
Product Design
Science, Technology and Society Studies
User Interface Design
Social Statistic
strict design training. I learned a lot, gaining a pretty good understanding of the methods and processes of design. I can achieve a high standard of design which is beautiful and user-oriented. When I was in the second year of university, I took an auditing course in department of Sociology of National Taiwan University(NTU). This course surprised me that how unlimited the potential is if we can fuse the knowledge and the craft of research of social science with design seamless. As a result, I took the entrance exam again and entered department of sociology of NTU. Now I am a student in both NTUST and NTU. I learn the ways of structured thinking, the skills of qualitative and quantitative research in NTU. I hope I can frame the problem accurately and solve it actually with a
Editorial Design
beautiful solution.
Took the Entrance Exam Again and was Accepted to Department of Sociology, NTU
Young Entrepreneur of Future Plan
Was Accepted to NTUST Industrial and Commercial Design Department.
Dream to Be an Industrial Designer
NCKU Industrial Design Camp
Dream to Be a Translator
National Wu-Ling Senior High School
S k i l l s
Industrial Design / UI Design / User Experience Research
Computer Skills : Pro/Engineer / Rhino / Keyshot / Photoshop / Illustrator / Indesign / Html / CSS / PHP / Stata Language : Mandarin Chinese, English
E D U C A T I O N
College of Design, NTUST
- Excellent Youth
2012
- Student Representative
2012
Department of Industrial and Commercial Design, NTUST
- Vice President of Student Association
Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2013
- Presidential Award
Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2011
W O R K E X P E R I E N C E
Academia Sinica - Intern of Research Center for Internet Technology Innovation
Jul. 2013 - Jan. 2014
Took charge of the exhibition space design of the Creative Commons Taiwan plan in Taiwan Designer’s Week; aquired the experience of website construction with an engineerering team Franz Award - Visual Design and Marketing Intern
Mar. 2012 - Sep. 2012
Assisted in the preparation and marketing of an international design competition
Business Next Publishing - Visual Design Intern
Engaged in the editorial process of Business Next and Manager Today in a month
Aug. 2011 - Sep. 2011
A W A R D S
Taiwan International Student Design Competition
2013
Nominee (Product Design) Student Editorial Award 2012
2012
Best Cover Open Competition for Logo of NTUST 36th Anniverary
2011
First Prize
E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R A C T I V I T Y
Wing
WING – Start-up Project - Co-founder
Jun. 2014 – Present
Initiate a start-up project of developing a hearing-aid product
Asian Barometer Survey - Research Interviewer
Jul. 2014 – Present
Conducted 12 times in-face survey in Taoyuan City and gained considerable practical experience of field research
IXDA Taiwan Interaction Conference - Assistant of Speaker
Oct. 2014 – Present
Helped Prof. Dong-Sheng Chen to prepare for his speech content and contact with the conference organizers
Square ( 廣場 ) Magazine of Dept. of Sociology, NTU - Editor and Visual Designer
Oct. 2012 - Jan. 2014
Took participation in writing critical articles and art design of an independent magazine
Taiwan Tech Design Week (TTDW), NTUST - Leader of Preparatory Group
Nov. 2012 - May 2013
Led the preparatory group of 60 people for the design exhibitions, DVJ performances,and speech series
Open HCI Taipei Workshop - Student Member
Jun. 2012
Conducted a human computer interface design project with the excellent students from design, psychology, and infomation backgrounds.
HDG (懷德居 ) Carpentry Experimental School - Student Member
Sep. 2011 - Feb. 2012
Learned the skills of fine woodworking; enhanced my aesthetic and model making ability
Young Designer’s Workshop and Exhibition,, IDA Congress 2011 - Student Member
Oct. 2011
Finished a design project for telemedicine in coordination with the students from all over the world
Young Entrepreneurs of the Future, YEF - Student Member & Alumni
Made friends with students from differnt disciplines and learned knowledge of how to start a startup
Mar. 2011 - Sep. 2011
greena
Flexible Vegetable Package Solution
greena an easy way to decide the amount of vegetables to buy in supermarket.
May. 2013 See also: http://bit.ly/QZEnzB
Problem Frame Due to the rising employment rate of female and the coming of the industrial and commercial society, the lifestyle of urban resident has changed a lot in Taiwan. Although people tend to eat out rather than cook at home nowadays, still we often find many vegetables left to be rotten in our refrigerator. Why do we produce this kind of food waste? Is it a common situation for urban residents to go through?
Target Group Workers in City Offers Flexible and Customized Package Size Students Who Rent House In City Offers Flexible and Customized Package Size
Field Observation in Taiwan’s Market
Customer Amount of Traditional Market Customer Amount of SuperMarket
Traditional Market Offers Flexible and Customized Package Size
SuperMarket Standardized Package
06:00
12:00
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Open Hours of Traditional Market Open Hours of SuperMarket
In general, the customers who buy vegetables in supermarket are younger than those who do so in traditional market. Most of them are workers working in tertiary industrial sectors. Cooking is usually not only a daily routine but also a cheerful enjoyment of life for them. In comparision with the lifestyle before, they cook at home less with a more flexible frequency in their daily life. On account of the standardized package size of vegetables in supermarket, people unconsciously produce more serious food waste nowadays.
Design Concept Greena is an packaging machine for the customers customize the package size of the vegetables they would like to buy. The customers could do package and weigh at the same time with Greena. Then Greena would quote the price and print the tape of barcode for the customers.
greena
Flexible Vegetable Package Solution
The appearance of Greena looks like a electronic weigher with a monitor and a vegetable binder. It’s easy for the customers to guess how to use it, in other words, it will reduce the learning barriers for customers.
In consideration of the elder users, I reserved some skeuomorphic features in this UI (e.g., at the edge of the bottons, I used some light gradients and shadows to make the elders know what it is intuitively.).
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Sketch
How to Use
GUI
Pick up the vegetables you would like to buy
Take a plastic bag and put the vegetables in it
Put the bag on the plate of Greena
Change the language to English if you are not chinese user
Choose the consonant of the first word of the item you want to buy
Greena will display the possible results for you
Just simply choose what the item it is
Greena will weigh the vegetables and show the price
Check the price
Greena will print the barcode on the tape, display that it is ready for binding on it’s screen, and turn the guiding light green on binder.
Handle the opening of the plastic bag and make it slide along the path of the binder above the plate Greena will bind the bag
Take the vegetables to the check out counter
May. 2014 See also: http://miaomiao.strikingly.com/ Start-up Project : Will be available on crowd-funding platform FlyingV: http://www.flyingv.cc/project/3252
Problem Frame Threatened Food Security
The food security is usually under the threat from the climate disasters, overuse of chemical insecticide, excessive food processing, and genetic modification.
Unbalanced Food Produce and Distribution Due to the unbalanced food produce and distribution system, this situation is much more severe in urban area which food supply depends on countryside. If planting vegetable can be never a privilege for high-social class minority, it can contribute to forming a distributed and liberal productive network. Once if a food crisis happens, the network can balance the shortage and price fluctuation of food.
Target Group Urban Residents The urban residents who are interested in organic and healthy lifestyle.
We interviewed above 20 urban residents, and also brought our prototype to several public exhibitions of urban gardening and agriculture for gathering feedbacks.
We concluded that it is several common difficulties that urban residents would go through: Their living space is too narrow to grow vegetables. Their life is too busy to take care of vegetables. Their income is not enough for them to buy expensive gardening tools.
Design Concept
Miaomiao is a vertical hydroponic device which offers a solution that
Simple, Elegant, and Healthful
their houses greener. Moreover, they can produce healthy and fresh
makes the urban lifestyle more beautiful
vegetable for themselves, their family, friends and neighbourhood.
let the urban residents become the “green thumbs” easily and make
Flexible Installation Being Hung With a Stand Windows
Roof, Balcony
Every part of Miaomiao can be connected by their ends like a LEGO set. With this feature, the users can decide to support it with a stand or hang it up according to the changes of home environment and amount of vegetables they want to plant. What is better, Miaomiao is a non-electrical device, you don’t need to worry about the quantity of electric charge and where the electrical outlet is.
Easy Irrigating & Pleasure of Planting
Organic Liquid Compost
Water Balloon
Bottle With a manual water balloon, you can push the liquid compost from the bottle upward into the vessel inside the main stem of Miaomiao, and then to the top of it. Then, the compost will shed downward into all the containers.
Just fill the expanded clay and coco coir growing media in the pots, then plant the vegetable shoots. The vegetables will grow healthfully with less plant diseases and insect pests.
Absorbed by Roots
Sketch
Modular Design We interviewed above 20 urban residents, and also brought our prototype to several public exhibitions of urban gardening and agriculture for gathering feedbacks. We concluded that it is a common situation that urban residents would go through: their... living space is too narrow to grow vegetables. life is too busy to take care of vegetables. income is not enough for them to buy expensive gardening tools.
How to Use?
Prototyping and Testing Hydroponic technical test
Install Find a shiny place, then decide if you’d like to install it with a stand or a hook, and the amount of vegetables.
Plant
Fill the expanded clay and coco coir growing media in the pots, then plant the vegetable shoots.
Irrigate The daily irrigations exercise your fingers! 3D-printing technology reduced our cost and time of mock-ups.
Grow With organic hydroponic technology, the vegetables grow healthfully with less plant diseases and insect pests.
Harvest Want to cook by yourself? The most fresh and beautiful vegetables in the world are just in front of you.
HANDY SHOT Jan. 2013 See also: http://bit.ly/R5yDo8
Problem Frame What makes bird watching so frustrated for people who would like to take photo simultaneously?
While people does bird watching with a telescope, it is difficult for them to enjoy the experience with photo taking at the same time.
DC with monocular is comparably cheap but also much more complex in assembling camera, adapt ring, and monocular for amateur users.
DSLR is too heavy, expensive, and also always with serious vibration if you would take a snapshot.
Target Group Ecological observation enthusiast who is also a shutterbug Persona Yang Lee Age: 25 President of an amatuer mountain climbing club/ Interested in ecological observation, especially bird watching
A Day of Mountain Climbing 06:30 wake up
13:45 watching the vocano far away
07:00 enjoy breakfast out
15:30 it rains
07:30 meet his friends at Train Station
16:30 hear the sound of the tree frogs
08:00 take a bus to Qi-Xing Mountain
16:40 try to find them, but fail
08:30 get off the bus
17:00 take a bus to Tien-Mu
09:00 arrive in the hiking gate
18:00 enjoy ramen as dinner
10:15 get the first viewing platform
18:45 take the MRT to Gong-Guan
10:20 take a rest
19:30 say goodbye to his friends
10:30 take some photos of flying birds
19:50 get home, take a shower
12:00 have lunch
20:30 share the photos on facebook
13:00 another viewing platform
21:15 go bed early
13:30 the bottom of Da-Tun Mountain
Design Concept Handyshot is a digital camera back which offer an adapt ring to install a DSLR lens or a monocular. It combines interactive GUI with optical view in its view finder. Handyshot offers an affordable option for shutterbug to shot animals in the fields.
Eye-Tracing View Finder
User Interface
With infrared eye tracing technology, the toolbar set at two sides will slide in if you are staring at the two sides of your view.
Electric Opitical
Power Button Shutter Release Button
Adapt Ring for Monocular and Lens Replacable and Flexible Support
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Angle-Adjustable Ocular Lens User can change the angle of ocular lens while watching upward, reducing the burden the neck affords.
Brand Research
Product History Map an induction of the product identity of Sony
- focus on innovations of visual and audio interactional experience - expertise in technologys that make design lighter, thiner and smaller - simple and clear lines, succinct design language - leader of pushing professional optical technology to mass market
Brand Master Value Internal
Vision
- to create people’s demand, enter their life, and offer a dream
Mission
- to be a company that inspires and fulfills people’s curiosity
Value
- being a pioneer, not following others. Original style, Functional beauty, Convenience.
Personality Promise External
- an innovative pioneer bringing people joy and hapiness - Make.Believe - Anything you can imagine, you can make it real
Sketch and Mock-up
Wing M a ke H e a r i n g I m p a i re d Pe o p l e F l y Nov. 2013 See also: http://bit.ly/1koYTnn Award Winning : Taiwan International Student Design Competition - Nominee (Product Design) Start-up Project : My friend and I are still working in progress to make it real.
The differences of earphone usage between normal people and hearing impaired people.
Problem Frame Hearing impaired people wearing ear-hooked hearing aids are not able to use normal earphones. As a hearing impaired person, I can not use normal earphone to hear audio. I know many hearing impaired people have the same condition like me, and I hope I can help.
Design Concept Wing offers hearing impaired people an convenient way to listen with a
How to Use?
mobile player or cellphone. Its streamline shape makes itself look harmonized with the hearing aids. With a simple, replaceable hook structure, it can be installed on different models of hearing aids just in one-step. With simple but efficient structure, Wing offers an immediate-tech, lowcost but innnovative solution for hearing impaired people to listen with their mobile players or phones.
Wing contains a fine cooper coil inside, transforming audio signal from electric current to changing magnetic field. If Wing is successful installed, telecoil in hearing aid can catch this magnetic signal and turn it into sound.
1. Turn on your mobile Player. 2. Cooper wire coil inside transforms audio signal from electric current to changing magnetic field. 3. Telecoil in hearing aid catches the magnetic signal and transform it to electric current. 4. Hearing aid transforms the electric current to sound, and amplify it to adequate volume for hearing impaired people. 5. Enjoy it!
Mock-up Technical
Working Model
Mumetal Shell Mumetal shell with high magnetic permeability can avoid interference by shielding against static or low-frequency magnetic fields.
Dummy Model
Telecoil Inside A telecoil is a fine strands of copper wire wound into a coil and integrated into the circuitry of a hearing aid. Most hearing aids sold today have telecoils. When telecoils are turned on, they sense the electromagnetic signal emitted by an induction loop and send it on to the circuitry of your hearing aids. The hearing aids then turn it into sound for hearing impaired people to enjoy.
Replaceable Hook Replaceable hook enables Wing to adapt different brands and models of hearing-aid.
Jan. 2013 See also: http://bit.ly/QXsTNg
Square Magazine
Jan. 2013 See also: http://bit.ly/QXsTNg
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Square Magazine is a quarterly publication of Department of Sociolo-
Award Winning :
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Student Editorial Award 2012 - Best Cover
articles and art design of an independent magazine during Oct. 2012
(This competition was held by The Big Issue Taiwan)
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Jan. 2013 See also: http://bit.ly/RfOMH7
Taiwan Tech Design Week, TTDW Jan. 2013 See also: http://bit.ly/RfOMH7
Taiwan Tech Design Week, TTDW, is the most important student event which was held annually in Department of Industrial and Commercial Design in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. It comprises an exhibtion of Achievement of the teaching, and some events decided to be held by the students of the preparing team spontaneously. In the year 2013, we decided to hold the events with a theme, which is called “誰管明天 ( Who cares tomorrow)“. The theme, “Who cares tomorrow”, means “we care. Only if we seize every moment and take care of our society, we would change our future what we care.”.
With the central thinking, we planed to hold a theme exhibtion which exhibits the designs which response or solve the existing problems of our society. And also, we organized 5 speeches and a design night with attractive dance performance and DVJ shows.
I was the president of those all events and led over 50 persons in preparing team in TTDW 2013. It a precious experience for learning leadership and service design for me.
Taiwan Tech Design Week 2013
Design Night
Taiwan Tech Design Week 2013
Exhibitions
Taiwan Tech Design Week 2013
Design Forums
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