Section 1
Toward the Tap The Process. The Problem. The Solution.
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Problem Defined
Primary Audience
Concept
Visual Solution
Applications
Section 3
Research
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Brainstorming Observation was key in developing the problem. We knew we wanted to look at current events and research something that we all had personal experience with, so we asked ourselves a few questions. What are we interested in? What applies to populations of all kinds? Where can we look? We decided to look at the news for inspiration. Articles of all sorts popped up under the categories of “health” and “education,” the themes that we decided we were interested in. After some primary news browsing, we mindmapped topics we were familiar with.
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Job
Career
Education Affirmative Action
Race
High School
College Students Admissions
Summer Programs
Financial Aid
Policies
Beliefs
Physical activity
Water
Politics
Funding
Access
Science Healthcare Research
Medicine
Disease
Health
Diet
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Water is universal Everyone drinks it. The most common issues with water today are access and cleanliness. We see various campaigns attempt to provide clean water to poorer nations, or companies create products such as filters, bottled water, and purification tablets. There are many existing services that work to provide clean water to areas that don’t have the direct resources to access to it. While we knew that campaigns like this were available, we needed to research how they worked. We wanted to serve a local community while emphasizing the negative aspects of bottled water (environmentally and financially). We liked the idea of encouraging people to make smart decisions about water, but we didn’t have concise problem yet.
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People Water
People Water works on a platform of buy-one-donate-one. Their treat their service as a movement or a call to action. Customers can see how their purchase helps the lives of others via QR code. They can scan their water bottle purchase and they’ll be shown the exact water project their money has helped fund. This project is very admirable, but we knew we wanted to work more locally and less globally. We also knew knew we wanted to target the environmental issue of plastic water bottles.
P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water
P&G has a campaign that works to aid children of nations that lack clean water. Using the technology of purifiying powder, P&G entices the audience to donate to a large cause. This is a valuable service, but also targets a population of people much larger than we would like.
My Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act comes off as this “cool” website that strives to bring knowledge to the public about the reality of our water systems. Their vision is to create partnerships with colleges and universities to improve the availability of clean and abundant water supplies. However, this organization is very ambitious and has a variety of programs to do this. Their website suggests their scope is rather large and not specific to any venue of action.
TapWater
TapWater advertises their purchasable water bottles and as a result, create a variety of points at which you can refill your water bottle. Targed towards the UK, the company finds a variety of venues that will allow for pedestrians to fill their water bottles. The organization is non-for-profit and we knew that this was a good starting idea. However, the design and purpose of this program did not seem compelling enough to us. This is where our design could really flourish.
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Research
Primary Audience
Concept
Visual Solution
Applications
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Problem Defined
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Narrowing our focus We were ambitious. We wanted to focus on the environmental impact of water bottles and looked up all sorts of statistics and facts. This prompted our research of tap water, an alternative to bottled water. We weren’t sure of the cleanliness of tap water and contacted a stakeholder who had small experience in the tap water industry.
Economics
Americans spend more than $15 billion dollars annually on bottled water, buying 2.6 billion cases.
Bottled water can cost as much as $10 per gallon, making gasoline cost less than bottled water.
Impact
It will take 400 to 1,000 years for plastic to degrade in the environment.
Most water bottles are made of polethylene terephtalate (PET) plastic at 12 – 30 grams each.
2006’s figures to package/bottle 8 billion gallons of water took 900,000 tons of plastic.
86% of single-use plastic water bottles become landfill or litter in the U.S.
Consumption
Americans spend more than $15 billion dollars annually on bottled water, buying 2.6 billion cases.
66 million water bottles will go into the garbage or litter today.
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“Bottled water isn’t that much cleaner than tap water...we don’t know how pure bottled water really is.” –Christopher Lau, stakeholder
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It’s all in the bottle A lot of people prefer buying bottled water. Convenience, availability, and mobility seem to be key factors in peope’s decision to use it. But why? We developed a chart of pros and cons based on personal experience to being understanding the appeal of the product.
Tap water
Bottled Water Easy to transport
Environmentally friendly
Relatively inexpensive
Reliably available
Reliable taste
Locally sourced
Can store in masses
Taste can fluctuate
Produces lots of waste
Not readily transportable
Expensive to recycle
Pros
Free
Misleading in benefits
Cons
Essentially same as tap
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People think bottled water is better and we want to prove them wrong.
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Research
Problem Defined
Concept
Visual Solution
Applications
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Primary Audience
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Targeting the people Who and where were the next questions we asked ourselves. We found some demographics and originally wanted to focus on a population of 18 – 34 year olds, but knew that such a range would be difficult to hone in on. At what age do we develop opinions? Where can we find people in groups? What unifies them?
Women
Consume bottled water
Men
Consume bottled water
Both
Tap water isn’t safe!
Don’t consume bottled water
Don’t consume bottled water
Tap water’s perfectly fine.
A demographic study of consumers in the 18-34 age group.
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Regionally, Los Angeles and San Diego
drink the most bottled water during the course of an average day. (3.2 servings)
Most water overall (servings) San Diego Dallas Los Angeles New York
6.9 6.5 6.4 6.4
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“Due to the older generations’ matured tastes, they seek more natural, less caloric beverages. Younger Americans who are increasingly active and have literally grown up with bottled water are beginning to understand the importance of drinking water for better health and overall wellness.” –Frank Salazar, SBDCNet
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We concluded our primary audience must be: Young (18+) Easily influenced Able to make independent decisions In Southern California Within a strong community setting Drinking lots of bottled water
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College students. Young (18+) Easily influenced Able to make independent decisions In Southern California Within a strong community setting Drinking lots of bottled water
Geoffrey, 22 U.C. San Diego ’11 Honestly, there’s a strong bias against tap water. There’s a lot of random stuff that goes in it and makes it taste bad. You also have to realize that people here are pretty wealthy, and will be more inclined to buy a $5 bottle of Voss instead of drinking tap water like a poor person. College students like to be trendy, they’ll do something to make them look good.
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Nick, 22 U.C. Irvine, ’09 Almost everyone drank bottled water...the water has to travel from Norcal and after going hundreds and hundreds of miles, it’s going to taste different. There was also something about buying water that suggested you were of higher class.
Ellie, 22 Claremont McKenna, ’12 The water down here tastes bad and it never comes out the faucet cold enough. I use a large Brita filter most days with a reusable water bottle, and I occasionally buy water bottles when I away from the house. I almost never drink water straight from the faucet. From my experience people in Los Angeles love their plastic water bottles. I also think that people in Los Angeles aren’t as environmentally conscious as those in the bay area, so buying crates of plastic water bottles doesn’t really seem like a big deal.
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Research
Problem Defined
Primary Audience
Visual Solution
Applications
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Concept
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Finding the logic While taste was important in Southern California’s experience with tap water, based on my interviews with previous students from the region, the image that is associated with drinking tap water was also a big factor.
User
We wanted to show students that tap water could be delicious, healthy, and give a new image of being conscious, mature, and fun.
Purchases water
Carrie
Taste
Front End
BOTTLED WATER COMPANY
Back End
BOTTLED WATER COMPANY
Sells water
Filters water
Communicates with vendor
Disp
Plast
C c
es/transports
plays water
ticizes bottles
Convinces customer
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Drinks
Filters
Easy access to it
Convenience
Marketing branding
CANNOT compare to tap water
Names water
Convinces customer
Packages water
Gets water, finds sources
Prices water
Recycles bottles ($$)
Diagramming the interactions between a user and a bottled water company allowed us to understand the most important factors for developing a service.
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A lightbulb moment We wanted to follow certain trends and make them unique – something that was beyond a Twitter hashtag or just a mobile app to keep people interested. A physical object would draw people’s attention and need to confront a person in a friendly way. And it would have to be applicable to various campuses in the Los Angeles county. We needed to find a rising trend that in today’s youth.
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And who doesn’t love a food truck? There are 339 active food trucks in L.A. 105 Chuck Wagon A Los Crepes A Bite A ROCKin ICE AfterSchoolTruck Ahn Joo All American Gourmet Grill Almoosal Aloha Fridays Antonia’s Nuts Asian Cravings Attack of the Killer Carnitas Auntie’s Fry Bread B Sweet Mobile B&R Burger Truck Babys Badass Burgers BACON MANia Bakery Truck Barcelona On The Go Belly bombZ Beth & Tim Big Chewy Big G’s Roadhouse BITE ME FOODS BOLLYWOOD BITES Boo’s Philly Steak Bool Border Grill Bowers Sausages Brats Berlin Breezy Freeze Brew Coffee BurgerMonster Buttermilk Truck Cafe Con Leche Cafe2U Calbi BBQ CaliBanhMi CaliforniaGrillTruck Cambalache’s canter’s food truck Caridad Cuisine Casablanca Trucks Chasing Paradise ChastellisFoodTruck cheerburger Chef Joe’s Tasting Spoon CheTruck Chicago Meats LA Chomp Chomp Nation Chunk-n-Chip
Chunky Chiller Clean Street Food Cod Save The Queen code 3 concessions Cool Cow COOLHAUS LA Corazon de Jah Corn Heaven Cousins Maine Lobster Crazy Creole Truck CreativEATS Crepe de Ville Crepe’n Around Crepes Bonaparte Crepuscule Crispy Waffle&Frite Cupcake Place Cupcakery Cupcakes a GoGo Curb A Peel Curbside Cravings Currywurst Truck LA Da Burger Boss Dante Fried Chicken Dave Kerin Deano’s Deli Debi Rocha Del’s Lemonade - LA DesiAmigo Diamond Garrett Discussion Truck DoghouseTruck Dogtown Dog Dogzilla Hot Dogs Don Chow Tacos Dos Chinos DOSAtruck Dumpling Station Eat Phamish Eat ‘Em Up el burger luchador elantojo Famous Bratwurst FATBURGER La Cienega Firehousechefs Truck FISH HAPPENS! Fishlips Sushi Five Diamond flatirontruck Flavor Rush Truck Flippin Yolk
Flying Pig Fox Pizza Bus Franken Stand Fresh Fries Front Porch Pops Frysmith FukuburgerTruckVegas Game On! Gourmet Garlic Food Truck George’s Greek Get Shaved Shave Ice GetToasted Global Soul Glowfish Good Greek Grub Gourmet Genie GourmetGrill Masters Gravy Train Poutine Great Balls On Tires Green Truck Grill Em All Grill Sergeant Grilled Cheese Truck Gringos Tacos Gringos Tacos (West Covina) Gyro Gone Wild Gyspy Toast Truck Haleiwa Shave Ice HandaRollaMasta Hang 10 Tacos Haute2Go Heirloom LA Holy Aioli Home Skillet Truck HotShotHotDog Hula Moon Hungry Nomad India Jones In-N-Out Burger (Catering only) Jody Maroni’s Truck Jogasaki Burrito Jose O`Malley’s Juice on the Loose Just4Halibut King Kone King’s Corner Kiyoko’s Teriyaki Knockout Taco Truck Kogi BBQ komodo Krazy BBQ
L A SNOWIE SHAVE ICE la guera tamalera lardon Lee’s Philly Let’s Roll It LetsBeFrank Lidia’s Dominican Kitchen Little Frenchie Lobsta Truck Lomo Arigato Truck longboards Longboards Sprinter Los Saigon Louks To Go Luckdish Curry Ludo Truck M.O.Eggrolls Mac and Cheese Mama’s Food Truck Mambo Juice Mandoline Grill Mangia Ristorante Marias Truck Maui Shave Ice Truck Maui Wowi LA Me So Hungry Meat The Greek MEETnPOTATOES Mighty Boba Miss Barbie-Q Mossie Lee’s Mr. Greenz Mr. Nacho Mun-Chee5 Mustache Mike’s My Delight Truck My Delight CupCakery N’AWLINS FOOD TRUCK Nacho Truck Nana Queen’s Truck NIKUMAN-YA NinjasWithAppetite No Jodas Kitchen No Tomatoes! Nom Nom NoReservationsCater NY Ice Connection O Street OG Tempura onoliciousbbq Oooh La La Crepes
Pacific Shave Ice Palazzolo’s Gelato Panfiniti Food Truck PapasTapasCatering Papaya King Paradise Cookies PattyWagon Philly Please Phydough Piaggio Gourmet On Wheels Pie n Burger Pies And Fries Truck Pig’s Feet Under Pinoy Jeepney Pitapusher Pnut Butter Bar Pogi Boy Truck RaginCajun On Wheels Rancho a Go Go Rancho a Go Go LA Random Treats Rasta Taco Rebel Bite Red Robin YUMMMMobile Refresh Rice & Roll Onigiri Ricky’s Fish Tacos Rockin’ Roll Truck Roll’n Lobster Rolling Rainbow Rolling Sushi Van Romolo’s Italian Cuisine Rosa’s Bella Cucina Rounds Burger Truck Royal Red Velvet Scarecrow Schmuck Truck Seabirds Truck Seoul Sausage Co. Sexy Burger Shave Ice Shave It Ice ShortRibBBQ shortribtaco Shortstop BBQ Shrimp Pimp Sky’s Gourmet Tacos SLAMMIN SLIDERS Slap Yo Mama SliceTruck Slider City
Sloppy Gourmet The Slummin’ Gourmet Smokin’ Willie’s SOHOTACO South Philly Exp Spice Island Sprinkles Mobile Spud Runner Stackers Steel City Sandwich Strati Organic Streets of Thailand Suite 106 Cupcakery Super Q Food Truck Surf Riders Shave Ice Sweet Arleen’s Sweet Beats Sweet Es Bake Shop Sweet Wheels T’s Hot Sauce Truck Ta Bom! Taco María Tainamite Food Truck Takosher Takoyaki TANOTA Tamarindo Truck TangoMango Tapa Boy TemakiTruck.com Texas Chili Pie The Boba Truck The Burnt Truck THE DIMSUM TRUCK The Feast Truck THE FLIP TRUCK The Fluff Ice™ Truck The Fry Girl The Garbage Truck The Gastrobus The Greasy Wiener The Lobos Truck The Manila Machine The Munchie Machine The Pit Stop The PitStop Grill The S’Cream Truck The Shrimp Guys The Surfer Taco The Sweets Truck The Tailgate Truck The TK Truck
The Wien Hot Dog Co. The Yummy ONE The Lime Truck The Vine Gourmet thebuntruck ThePokeyTruck TJ’s Woodfire Pizza TNBBBQ Tornado Potato Tortas 2 Die 4 Trailer Park Truck Tropical Shave Ice Truck Norris TwistBurgers Umami Burger Uncle Lau’s Uncle Lau’s BBQ Urban Oven Valentino’s Pizza Vchos Vegitup Grill Viking Vizzi Truck Waffle-icious Waffles de Liege Wake N Bake Wagon We Heart Froyo WheresTheFirePizza White Rabbit Wicked Wienerz Willoughby Road Yalla Falafel Truck ZZ Truck
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Free Exciting
Fun
Playful
Keeping it relevant A system of mapping was essential. We all individually thought of words that could apply to our service. Afterwards, we collaborated our lists of words and began thinking of a way they all connect to one another. We strived for something catchy, not too cheesy, and more literal than figurative. H2GO was born.
Trendy
Cool
New
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Beneficial
Do good
HOH
Socially aware
e
Scientific term Quick Casual Convenient
On-the-run Direction
Motion
On-the-go
Waves Arrow
Young
Fresh water Tap water
Clean Vibrant
Pure
Refreshed
Transparent Clear
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Research
Problem Defined
Primary Audience
Concept
Applications
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Visual Solution
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The interaction We wanted there to be a continuous interaction – something that was beyond a Twitter hashtag or just a mobile app to keep people interested. A physical object would draw people’s attention and need to confront a person in a friendly way. And it would have to be applicable to various campuses in the Los Angeles county. We needed to find a rising trend that in today’s youth.
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WEEK 1 The Tank drives around campus, providing free tap water without revealing our identities/mission.
WEEK 2 A brochure is delivered residents of the university. Our mission is revealed and we provide a QR code that leads to another product. A free water accompanies it.
WEEK 3 Students will begin using the application on a daily basis and they will return to the Tank.
EVENTUALLY ...we will promote the use of filters so students will become used to the idea of using refillable water bottles and drinking locally sourced tap water.
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1st Iteration filtered water on wheels
2nd Iteration
3rd Iteration
The branding We wanted to use unique but familiar imagery – but we didn’t want to invest in using too generic or cliché metaphors. Being a service associated with water, it was easy to use the shape of water droplet to ground our logo. But, it was important that it wasn’t what was the center of our image. Our final design reflected the icons that we used for our mobile application.
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Logo Designs by Mary Yang
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The mobile app The application was secondary. It was a good way of furthering the interaction between the user and our service. It also kept our program contemporary and “cool”. Figuring out the app architecture was difficult but we still needed to pin point its main function. In the end, we thought we would need something that could locate the truck, and a feature that would let you see keep track of your daily water intake. That way, the app could become personal.
Application
Loading
Login
The Truck
Stats
My Water
Today’s Water
Track Water Intake
Locator
Schedule/Map
Stats
Share
Settings
Check-In
Account
Notes
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Prototyping via wood cut outs of iPhones and computer sketches Designed by Erin Woo
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Research
Problem Defined
Primary Audience
Concept
Visual Solution
Section 39
Applications
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1
Launch It starts with the truck. Otherwise, known as the Tank. By branding the vehicle with a name, it can easily become a known entity amongst a community. We would let the Tank supply water to campuses without sharing any information on who we are or why we are doing it. Inserting ourselves without any context allows people to grow more curious in our existence.
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Brochure design by Abby Pribble
2
Reveal You’ve got mail – something that was beyond a Twitter hashtag or just a mobile app to keep people interested. A physical object would draw people’s attention and need to confront a person in a friendly way. And it would have to be applicable to various campuses in the Los Angeles county. We needed to find a rising trend that in today’s youth.
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Cu
35%
October 23
We’ve given away
500.2 gallons
The Tank
The Tank
Interface designs by Erin Woo
3
Discover Staying modern. The accompanying application would keep the service fun and contemporary. Anybody could download the app and keep track of their daily water intake, see how much resource they’re saving by drinking in a refillable water bottle, and find out where the Tank is if they want some crisply cold and free water.
My Water
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Currently
Currently
urrently
Full
24 oz.
3, 2012 12:00 PM
UCLA
Hillgard and Westholm
October 23, 2012 12:00 PM
We’re here from
I’ve had
300 oz.
Check In
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
...since August 31, 2011
The Tank Daily water intake
I’ve saved
Today’s water is from Walnut Valley Water District 16 14 12 10 8 6
40 more oz. to go!
Locator
Settings
The Tank
My Water
2
Dollars
Locator
Plastic (lb)
Liters
Settings
The Tank
My Water
Locator
Settings
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4
Engage Drink smart. Stay cool.
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Section 47
Statistics http://www.droptheprop.info/bottled-water-statistics http://www.sbdcnet.org/small-business-research-reports/ bottled-water-industry Featured Designers Erin Woo Mary Yang Abby Pribble The copy/design of this book was created by Erin Woo at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. The creation of H2Go was not modeled after any existing service. Any other existing programs of the same or similar name is because of pure happenstance. Visual Info | Fall 2012
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