Chih-Ting James Cheng Product Design Portfolio Tel: (+1) 415-755-8861 E-mail: ccheng2@cca.edu
About Me Education
Work Experience
Using minimal design to give people maximum surprise
Hi, I am James. I believe that design can make people’s
lives better. By focusing and observing details, our job is to develop insights to create better products. I want to use the skills I’ve learned to create designs with grace and simplicity that have great impact on peoples’ lives.
= Graduated from Shanghai High School International Division, May 2011 = Current Senior student at California College of the Arts Graduating in May 2015 = Internship at KangYang Atelier, Interior Design Company, Shanghai. (Summer 2013) - Assisting with building forms, materials in 3Ds Max - Editing sections in AutoCAD - Photoshop rendering images - Involving furinture, stands, and showcases design. = Internship at Pegatron/Pegacasa, Taiwan. (Summer 2014) - iPhone 6 case design - Market research - Sketch - Photoshop - Illustrator
Skills
= Design Thinking = Research = Modelmaking = Adobe Photoshop = Adobe Illustrator = Adobe Indesign = Adobe AfterEffect = Autodesk 3Ds Max = Autodesk MAYA = Rhino = Solidworks = Keyshot = Microsoft Office
Languages
= English = Mandarin Chinese = Taiwanese = Shanghainese
Contact
= Tel: (+1) 415-755-8861 = E-mail: ccheng2@cca.edu
Content Wii Print A 3D printer brings objects out from games
Leather iPhone case with multiple accessories
KICO A portable food grinder for small farms (with a video)
Others More projects
Wii Print
A 3D printer that brings objects out from games Connecting with Wii U, printing out prizes from games. Creating interactions between digital world and players.
Brand Research
User: kids How to create interaction between kids and printers?
Interaction between game and players
Nintendo is good at creating interaction between players and games. Main players are kids. 3D printer can create solid objects. What if we use 3D printer to bring objects out from games, in order to create more interactions?
User Scenario
User Tim 10 years old Love playing video games
Story Tim gets a Wii Print as a birthday gift. He finds out that once he accomplish a challenge in the game, he can print a piece from printer. After three challenges, he finds that these can be assembled together, like a puzzle piece. In the end he gets a Mario mushroom figure.
? ? accomplish a challenge
connect Wii Print and Wii U get assemble pieces from printer
?
?
more mystery prizes
Form Language
Friendly
Geometric shape
Playful
Minimal
Nintendo is good at using simple geometric form, to create a friendly and playful toy for kids.
Ideation
Final Design
Platform for printed prizes
Moving board, prize coming out
USB & SD card slot
Detail
X,Y,Z axis, motors. FDM system, easy and low cost
Filament cartridge, easy for kids to change by themselves
Design Purpose
Luxury
Function
Design a phone case not only have luxury style, but also have useful function. Luxury phone usually use leather and metal as their material. Lots of phone case function nowaday are card holders, or stand. What if having a phone case using luxury material, and having multiple functions?
Ideation
Final Design
Card holder
Stand
Coin bag
Wallet
button There are four types of leather accessories. Card holder, conin bag, stand, and wallet. Each of them could be attached on the back of phone case by button. Users can customize their phone case depends on what function they want for that day.
Final Design
Card holder
Coin bag
- Holding credit card, ID card - Flexiable leather band holding earbuds
- Hidden zip, coins in the bag
Final Design
Stand
Wallet
- Using horizontally or vertically - Open two buttons on the top, folding down to create a triangular stand
- Three folds wallet - Metal piece holding cash, card holder on the other side
Group project with Tosca Zhou
Observation
Uncomfortable
Unfriendly tools
Inefficient
Rogers Rance recives food scrap every week. In order to use these as composting, food will need to be cut into tiny pieces to composte faster. However, the process is not comfortable and efficient. How to minimize the process of grinding? And make it more efficient and more comfortable?
Ideation
Final Design & Scenario
carry grinder next to food bin
set on food bin
pull up extensionwall
dump food scrap in grinder
pull out handle
start grinding!!!
Details
two roles of blades
stands/blade protection
rubber front holding bin
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H8MtZQ99HA&feature=youtu.be
More projects
S cleaner A powerful vacuum machine
S.O.L
Rescue bracelet that tracks user’s location and detect user’s pulse Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j12OZ8_Xm1s
Thank You ccheng2@cca.edu 415-755-8861