portfolio
selected works 2017-2019
Yu-Ren,Lai
Create interesting things to make people smile
That is DESIGN
CONTENT
Profolio
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Product Design MABAO
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PARA
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More works swing
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Sketch
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Photography
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Conclusion
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YU-RE +886-932389075
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13F.-3, No. 36, Se Rd., Central Dist 400, Taiwan (R.O.C
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EDUCATION The Affiliated Senior High School of National Chung Hsing University National Cheng Kung University Department of Industrial Design
EXPERIENCE 2019.03 Foresight Workshop 2019.01 Speculative Design Workshop 2018.08 HaoShi Bootcamp 2018 2018.06 UX Design Workshop 2017.09 NCKU ID Student Organization Film Director
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timistic and cheerful. I like to try things that others have not done.
I can be innovative enough to create some interesting things. For some
s, I am willing to explore. I hope to bring happiness to everyone and make fun.
INTEREST
SOFTWARE
Photography
Illustrator
Traveling
Photoshop
Writing
Premiere Keyshot Solidworks
SKILL
LANGUAGES
Desin thinking
Chinese
Sketching
English
Model making
Personal imformation
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PRODUCT
DESIGN
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Product design
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Product design
MABAO is a device that can store change and invoices, and can be used as your personal wealth management assistant to help you develop good savings habits and help you make some small investments.
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BACKGROUND -Design for important rituals in our life
There are many rituals in life that will lead us to move on to the next stage, or make some changes, such as going to school on the first day, graduation, marriage, promotion. And when we pass these ceremonies, we often have family and friends, family members, and everyone’s blessings.
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Coming of age ceremony is the one of vital rite of passage in our life.It symbolizes maturity.In the Chinese community,it has had folk events for maturity for a long time such as Tainan Coming of age Ceremony.These ceremonies not only show chinese emphasis on ritual,but also display the best wish to just adult.Howover, this kind of ceremony has been ignored gradually nowadays.
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ISSUE -Design a product for coming-of-age ceremony
I look forward to make coming-of-age ceremony be attached on again through product design.I would like to present families' love and expection to just adult as well as hope that just adult would become promising because of the product.
INTERVIEW -What is people's opion to ideal gift for coming age ? When my child is adult, I would like to send a gift that he can use every day and helpful for his life, such as the multi-functional paperweight.If it were valuable,I feel like it would be better.
I hope that if I receive a gift and blessings when I am promoted, I will be happy.I wish this gift not only may be a commemoration, but also can also be helpful to my future.
I would like to have this gift precious, so that when my child receive this gift, he would recognize that he has been an adult, and hope that he
will be more mature when
using this gift, maybe like a valuable watch.
The biggest change for adults to me is the reduction of living expenses. I need to think about my living expenses,do some part-time, or track my daily spending, so if I have a gift that help me develop good habits of money use, I think it would be great.
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USER JOURNEY MAP -How long would people's joy for the gift last ?
After interviewing people's opions to ideal gift,I realize that people would like to sens a gift which is precious as well as good for receiver's future.Coincidentally,I run into a just-adult who just got a fountain pen as a gift from his father.As soon as I attentively observe his use of this coming-age gift,I make this user journey map to look for some problems.
I find that he lost his enthusiasm of this fountain pen after a while owing to barely usng it in his daily life.I believe that if peolple cannot make the present to integrate into our life,we would lost rejoicing to it even if it is expensive.The fitter the present for us is,the longer we would use.And this gift not only should be able to use in our daily life,but also be good for making our life better.
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INSIGHT -What is the most suitable gift ?
I sum up some of the previous analysis results and the collection of people's thoughts on the rite of rites. I come up with several feasible directions and add some ideas of my own.
-Continue the blessings Many gifts are just valuable, and they cannot express people's blessings. Some gifts are after a while, we forget its original meaning.
-Be good for our future Growth means that we have more challenges, so we need to make ourselves better to overcome them. Maybe we can start from a small place and develop good habits from a small place.
-Have problem with money use After adulthood, we need to be independent. Most people feel pressure on the use of money. We need to save money and use it properly when resources are limited.
DESIGN GOAL -Help people develop good habits of money use
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Product design
IDEATION
At this stage, I try a lot of possibilities to put change and invoices, and think about how to encourage people to throw in coins, maybe a game, or have a sound and light feedback, I hope that the appearance of this product can be integrated into our daily life, I want to make this product more comfortable surface.
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PROTOTYPE
When I was making the prototype, I found that the hole shape I had imagined before was very inappropriate. It was not very unsightly in appearance, but it was reminiscent of the hole that people would not know what it is uesd for. At this time, the professor suggested that I should think about the shape which would make "affordance" that have people fall into the coins. So I tried to dig up different holes directly on the surface and think about the shape of the opening.
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FINAL MODEL
I put the mechanism and shape in the production of the model, because there are many improvements before, which makes it different from the original shape I thought, but it is unexpectedly beautiful.In the choice of materials, I try to paint the glossy surface in order to giving it a clean feeling. At the final exhibition, I offered some coins for audience to experience the joy of throwing coins in it.I found that people enjoy storing money in this way.
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MABAO -Storage for coins and invoices
OPENNING
GATHER A box for collecting change and invoices on the right and back sides, respectively, which can be taken out when needing.
HOLE MONITOR There is a monitor under the hole showing the strength of WIFI.
SENSOR There is a sensor in the lower left corner, which will record the number of dumps and pass it into the phone program.
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HOW TO USE -Coins  invoices storage x Wi-Fi router x Connecting app
1.THROW Going home and putting the pocket change into it, MABAO's intimate hole design allows you to put coins in one by one and sprinkle them to collect the change.
2.WIFI After putting in the change, MABAO will open WIFI. As the amount of coins is more, the stronger the strength would be.The WIFI will automatically stop after leaving home every day.
3.TAKE OUT MABAO will dump with the change of the input, and when it is dumped to a certain extent, the change can be taken out.
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4.INSERT The invoice is inserted from the invoice port behind MABAO, and MABAO will automatically sort the invoices into a stack to facilitate future redemption of invoices.
4.REDEEM MABAO will help you sort out the invoices and remind you when to redeem the prizes.
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UI PROCESS -Your private financial helper
I believe that while using MABAO with app, it will help us to develop a good habit more efficient. This app can be used as your personal financial assistant to record every savings and invoice,noice you when you win the Taiwan Reciept Lottery,show some significant daily buiness news for you,and remind you when to make some small investments.
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SCENARIO -Have a good time managing your finacial
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Product design
Combined with a mobile app, MABAO allows your money to be used efficiently. You can make good habits of money anytime, anywhere.Let any one of your dime not be wasted, and bring you unexpected feedback simultaneously.
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PARA is specifically designed for whom may be forgetful in daily life, allowing people to leave without being hectic. As an accessory of phone case,PARA combines it with wallet and Keys. People can store some gadgets in it,such as coins,invoices,or paper money.By the way,we also can note something on it.These notes would be wiped while people get home.
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BACKGROUND
Nowadays,mobile phone has took an important role in our daily life.Thus,there are variety of mobile accessories in order to improve the efficiency of mobile phone while we use it.Following the mobile phone, the mobile accessories has became indispensable to human.
RESEARCH -Look for some interested existing products
We start with researching the existing mobile accessories.It is interested that the amount of mobile accessories is more than our imagenation.Some are popular with low price,others are intended to protect phones or make it more stable,and still others are known as eblems of fashion.We also tend to learn the keys to success from some hotsales mobile accessories.
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IMAGE MAP -Group existing products
After researching existing mobile accessories,we use image map to classify them.We aim at analyzing the exsting mobile accessories in the purpose of find some interest points of them.We come to a conclusion that distinct needs of using mobiles produce distinct accessories.Even if solving the same problems of phone usage,it would come into different products.And some accessories are intend to promoting the functions of mobile phones such as fisheye lens.
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5WIH -Define the problem
By using 5W1H method,I have integrated some of the results of market analysis and image map. After I have sorted my thoughts, I go into more detailed descriptions of the phenomena and make a more step-by-step analysis of the causes. Finally, I summarize my feasible solutions.
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INSIGHT -Find some possiblility
I find out that peole have experience of forgetting to bring carry-on items out. However,they would carry on smart phone unexpected.Beacause of this interest discover,I suppose to have these carry-on items take with smart phone.Once we take our phones out,we would bring them by the way and we might not be forgetful as usual.
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IDEATION -Try a variety of possibilities to store things
At this stage,I try my best on sketching in order to find the best way to solve the problems of storing something in the phonecase.I develop lots of idea as well as consider the fuction and mechanism.As for the appearance,I would like to make people feel energetic,colorful and irregular.
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PROTOTYPE
Protoyping is the best way to put my idea into practice which can test on th
that I imaged before.At this time,I also look for the suitable material whic
enough to store something in it.By spending countless time on testing the m
realize that the mechanism which I sketched before cannot be used to.Therefo
me some time to modify it.I believe that making prototype is the most intere in design process because I can learn a lot from it.
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FINAL MODEL
At this time,I spare no effort to build the final model.Thanks to the testing on the prototype,I realize what the mechanism could be used for.It is challenged to make the final model because there are plenty of details that I should pay attention on such as some surface are not pretty smooth as I want,or the spray paint on it is too soft to spray on the surface.
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HOW TO USE -Some tips for using PARA
Selection of elastic material
Choosing silicone elastic material, you could freely put things. The opening on the left side is larger so that it could be easier to insert from the right.
Space for key In the upper right corner, there is space for storing keys. When the key is needed,It can be used by the slider on the right side. When the key is released, the memo can be removed by the way in meaning ofreturning home to finish the whole day.
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It can be used as a memo to record reminders on PARA, and you can wipe them when you push the keys home.
When opening the door, use PARA to easily push the key away, no need to spend time looking for the key in your pocket.
Keep the carry-on items in the PARA and tie them with the mobile phone. It is not easy to lose or forget.
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swing swing is a phone stand that you can stably put your beloved phone on.Its particular construction is able to make the sound from your phone more stereoscopic and louder when watching video or listening.It also could be used to create a joyous atmosphere as a exquisite decoration.Its appearance looks like a swing of a brush waving,so that is why it calls swing.
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DESIGN TOPIC
In this case,professor ask us to complete our assignment by gypsum.It is interested for me to design thing by gypsum because I have never made model by gypsum before.I want to seize this chance to learn how to use gypsum as well as make interesting gadget. I choose to make a phone stand on my own because I hold the view that it can not only play an important role on showing the modeling of our phone as a decoration,but also let us
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watch the video with our phone more joyful.
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DESIGN GOAL
Design a phone stand which is confortable for watching and using.
IDEATION
Sketch some concpeption of my ideal phone stand.
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MODELING
Using gypsum is not an easy thing as I image before.I feel frustrated with the proportion of water and gypsum ponder.It is hard to control since there are lots of protential factors ;for example,the humidity level and the temperature.It takes some time to try and fail.However,I successfully make model by gypsum in the end.I also use sandpaper to make the surface more smoothy.
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HOW TO USE
When picking up swing,you can put your finger confortably into the grooves behind.As for watching videos or listening to music,the construction of cavity at the left can amplify sounds.
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SKETCH
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography
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End
Conclusion
For me, design is a way to bring people happiness. Through design, I learned that there are many inconveniences in life that we ingore it or even blame for ourselves. In fact, these problems are caused by poor design, I try to find places in life that make people feel unhappy, and try to improve them. I look forward to my own design. Come with some small but subtle changes, and bring more novel experiences to people’s hearts.
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