Industrial Design Portfolio

Industrial Design Portfolio

Gaurav Jain

Duration : 40 days

This is an ongoing live project started with the objective to redesign Forbes Marshall’s Minimax Burner. After the detailed research and study it was found that there is a requirement of shift manufacturing process of Blower Volute from fabrication to sand casting. Thus there is an opportunity for the design-team to exploit and evolve a form which can effectively overcome past limitations and can delight the situation. Also there is a possibility that this can provide an exclusive identity to Forbes Marshall ‘Burner’.

Exposed Welds

Lack Of Branding

Disintegrated Components

Sharp Edges

Monotonous Inclusive Form

The project was restricted to redesign the Minimax Burner’s Blower Volute, Spool Piece and the Flange Assembly as these components are most visible and provides highest aesthetic value to Minimax Burner. Understanding the functionalities , handling and ergonomics of the product and after brainstorming sessions, KEYWORDS were evolved which can define the form of proposed design of Minimax Burner.

Muscular

Rugged

Dynamic

Organic

Minimalistic

Integrated

Final Concept

More usable Viewing Window A slot in the redesigned Flange with branding space.

A Flow Full, Organic, Rugged, Dynamic and Muscular form is evolved for Blower Volute

Flushed Motor Mounting plate to integrate the product.

A dedicated and visible space for Branding & Specification of Minimax Burner.

Other material 1:1 scaled model

DESIGN FOR SPECIAL NEED

Duration :14 days

Objective of the Course • To develop empathy towards people having specific limitations and understanding the difficulties faced by them in their daily times. • Effective interaction with users and domain specialists.

LPG CYLINDER HANDLING SYSTEM Company vehicle arrives from factory

Vehicle needs to return soon Cylinder transferred to agency vehicle

Vehicle posted for full day Cylinder transferred to ..

Big tempo(30) small tempo(15 cycle(6)

Direct delivery direct delivery

stock at another location

Only The Great Khali can lift 30 kg cylinder from a height of 6 feet

Ajay (28 years)is a bachelor.

He is very foodie and often feels like taking nap at afternoon.

He is familiar with basic mechanism and also can repair basic automobile.

He is very enthusiastic and hard working.

He has worked as a mechanic before.

Now he works with HP gas since 3 years.

His working timings are morning 9 to evening 7.

His work is to load and unload cylinder from truck.

Everyday he has to unload 300 to 900 filled LPG Cylinder from truck to other vehicle single handedly.

He has often seen accidents while unloading the cylinder from truck.

Many of his colleagues and he himself has fractured his toe due to mishandling of cylinder.

Need/ Problem Finding –Step by step process of Unloading cylinder from Truck

Cylinders are stacked in three layers.

Only one person should unload full truck (300 cylinders).

Total height of three stacked cylinders comes to 6 feet to 6.25 feet.

As, 30 kg / 40kg cylinder cannot be lifted from 6 feet height, it is slided over 2nd stacked layer.

Thus, often sliding of 3rd layer takes 2nd layers cylinder with it, causing major injuries.

Cylinders are often rolled by kicking.

Design BriefThere is a need to avoid the personnel to slide the cylinder from 3rd layer to 2nd layer while unloading ; by designing a retrofit to the truck trolley which will enable the personnel to unload the 3rd stacked cylinder more safely.

Channels

KEY FEATURES: Retrofit to the conventional

Ratchet Pulley used for safe

truck trolley.

handling of cylinder.

Economical

Ratchet pulley Button to unlock

Rope

Ergonomic

Hook

Design inspired by existing

Light weight Aluminium

Industrial Gantry.

channels

Rugged

Duration :14 days The Course aims at providing insights on the ecological foot prints in the process of design development and manufacturing of products, systems and services.

Can be easily found lying on road, or from flex printing agencies free of cost, or in minimal cost of 50 paisa per square feet.

• Made up of Poly Vinyl Chloride, thus non biodegradable.

• Thickness varies from 280 gsm to 440 gsm • Width can be up to 10 feet and length can be 100% customized.

• Sheets cannot be printed both sides and cannot be recycled, as they are printed with ink.

• It’s life can be of 3 years depending on thickness and environment in which it is used.

• Printed banner costs from Rs. 15 to Rs 40 per sq. feet.

• Used banner can be obtained free or purchased @ 50 paisa per sq. feet.

Scenario undertaken

:

Reuse the banner to increase its functional life thus, avoid use of other non-biodegradable material for similar purpose. Also keeping in mind of mass production of the product.

Even if people wish they are not able to use bike cover……why?

Issues Of Existing Bike Cover: • Difficult to put on and remove, due to the form of bike.

• Expensive for one time use, chances of being stolen are more. (Can we design with such a cost that people will not bother to purchase it again) • Have to wrap after removing the cover.

Conceptualization: Understanding the properties of material, which can be stitched, hot stamped and can retain wrinkles in lateral direction; when folded.

Using front foot rest of bike as centre and length and height as major and minor axis, Chinese folds are adopted to get the required structure.

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Placement of eye holes thread

Placement of spring steel

Proposed concept can be made using Stitching, Eye Hole Method or Spring Steel Method. Stitching method is adopted to make the prototype, as product made with this method would be more flexible and economical.

KEY OUTPUTS: Functional life of material increased, which can replace new

Understanding property of material; using the same.

material.

No other material used.

Divided covering area equally, to ease in spreading and removing.

Reduced cost of product compared to existing product by 90%.

Unfolding and folding step merged to one; cover gets folded while

(Rs. 9 per piece with stitching)

removing.

Can be personalized

Used bike part as centre of cover.

(a youth full trends through already printed banners) .

Duration : 14 days To regard Nature as vast information resource and to gain learning and insights from it. Also, to study the elements of a natural object, its environment and understanding of the principles and functionalities resulting in the ultimate form acquired in its Geometry, Interrelationships with other elements, Purpose, function, Integration, Structure, Textures, Growth and growth patterns, Colour etc.

I chose Human Hand as my inspiration from nature with the first thought that it is such multifarious organ of human body and is very

close to us to observe, which is mostly ignored as it is actually very close.

Motives

Motives were evolved out of the sketches , so that it would become easy to interpret, and evolve a design out of it.

The motive of Fingerprint and Hand with Thumbs Up were chosen as it was more close to geometric form.

Concept 1

Inspired by Hand Thumbs Up

Teether

At the age of 2, babies are required to leave breastfeeding and start bottle feeding, but they don’t accept the bottle feeding and start thumb sucking, which is dangerous. With this motive I design a product which is inspired by thumb sucking position of hand. A product which can enable the baby to have a illusion of thumb sucking, and thus makes him familiar with bottles.

A Teether cum Sipper for the age 1 to 2 years is derived.

This product gives the baby the same position to hold the product as he or she while sucking thumb and making baby familiar with bottle feeding.

Concept 2

Inspired by Fingerprints

Biometric Fingerprint Scanner

A biometric fingerprint scanner was evolved with the motive of finger print.

Conceptualization

A finger print (texture of hand) inspired biometric fingerprint scanner can be put on top of table and can be mounted on wall.

Final Concept

Duration :14 days COMMUNICATION

EMOTION

FUNCTION

Packaging for COMMUNICATION : User should get a feel of how the wig will look on him.

EMOTION : When not worn wig should be Kept Less Visible.

FUNCTION : Should occupy least space, should have more life than product, less weight, keeps the product safe.

Existing Packaging/Display of the product

Problem statement: There is a need of a product packaging which will help in retaining the original shape of the wig. Also, increase usage privacy of user.

Conceptualization: And thus Concept Ideation began with thorough understanding of the dimension of a human head and all those things which are placed near dressing table, since that is the place where wig has to be placed.

Products around dressing table were analyzed, as these are the product which lives at the same place where wig lives.

Like; Night lamp, Artifacts, Show pieces, Cloth hanger, Table lamp.

Final concept A Concept was evolved taking the inspiration from a coat hanger, on which the wig can be easily placed without disturbing its actual shape and quality.

The proposed concept can be hanged in the wardrobe and can also be placed on table. Thus satisfying user problems.

Actual 1:1 scale model was prepared to test the product, and the packaging of the product is made of same material from which the product was inspired i.e. Cloth Hanger.

Duration : 28 days Understanding technical requirement of existing product and integrating its components aesthetically.

Also considering ergonomic principals and visual semantics to develop efficient and user friendly product.

Redesign of Cordless Liquid Mosquito Repellent

Issues to Handle (Pain Areas) Unidirectionality of Plug; a plug which can also be used on extension board satisfying the user problem of getting repellent till floor or can be used on lawns or open spaces where switch board is far away.

Eliminating or changing the position of bosses, which in existing product reduces it aesthetic value.

Finding ways through which the repellent liquid can be fully utilized.

Integrating the form and making it as a single unit.

Ensuring that the form of the product should visually semantesized with the function of the product.

Experiment An experiment was performed to understand the nature of flow of vapours from the product.

Dhuup stick of same diameter and same exposure to heat was taken to get relative study.

Experiment Results (In presence of fan).

Circulation of repellent is only on same side where product is place and not even till floor. The other side remains unaffected.

Experiment Conclusion If by any condition first instant direction of repellent vapours be at centre of the room then circulation may be possible.

Thus, Conceptualization got started keeping in mind the pain areas.

Final Product

Key Outputs

As a part of increasing the aesthetic

Unidirectionality

value of product by changing the

achieved

position of bosses, detail is neatly

arrangement of plug as a hinge

done

with locking cavity in structure to

and

bosses

are

shifted

to

plug

using

when product is in use.

direction.

The cover and structure of product is

A

lipped

introduced for easy placement of

through

out

the

in

simple

hold

together

plug

a

was

bottom of product which is not visible

surface of contact and will be clicked

the

by

of

chamfered

both

cavity

the

was

refill in the product.

fit from the top.

Heating console is placed on a 100% usage of liquid is achieved by

cantilever

having a socket in which the extruded

and a dedicated passage was

portion of refill will be clicked and

introduced for wiring to reach

locked.

plug.

Thus the wick of the refill is in contact

Thus

with last drop of liquid.

technically enhanced product is

an

evolved, Also it assures the stability of refill in the product.

portion

of

structure

aesthetically which

brought

amount of learning to me.

and

a

huge

Duration : 28 days An interactive system for Self Service Delivery System For Canteen.

Design process majorly involved various stages: Mind mapping User study Hardware Personas Pressure points Card sorting Wireframes Final screens I finalized to target the customers i.e. students and staff since they have major pressure points.

PRESSURE POINTS

MIND MAPPING

Goes to canteen

Looks Menu

In all the scenarios he has to go to the canteen.

Not easily visible and attractive.

Ask for availability

Menu is fixed but availability is not ( as per research)

Pays and collects coupon

At peak hours it is hard to get coupon.

ECOSYSTEM

Carry coupon to delivery counter

Gives the coupon to counter person

PERSONA

It becomes very late to reach home every day while crosschecking daily sales Ya!

Fight to give coupon with additional auditory information.

Wait for his order

Has to wait there itself for food to get ready and delivered

Collect his order

He has to convince that the order is of himself.

Carry his food Persona 1 : Mr. Rahul Singh User Profile: Manager

Mostly delivery counter are far off coupon counter.

WIREFRAMES

FINAL SCREENS

FINAL SCREENS

Interactive screens with as less possible clicks to order the food is designed with vibrant colors and dynamic layout.

The whole layout is designed in such a manner that with each click window pops up, to give more active feedback to user.

The project gave me the whole new dimension to understand user interaction and user interface of a system.

zygote Is a three wheeler electric scooter concept which drives the attraction of the youth due to its different form and functionality. Form is inspired by puppy’s head which gives zygote more organic look unlike other vehicles. It is a scooter which is extendable and can decrease its wheel base as per need. Scooter can be unfolded after extending the rear body gives more security and keeps the seat dust free while zygote is parked. The backrest can be adjusted to relieve the user from the problem of back pain while driving.

Conceptualization

Bagged a Special Jury Award during AUTOEXPO 2010

1:5 scaled down Prototype prepared out of Fiber Reinforced Plastic

The total wheel base of zygote is 1250 mm which can be extended to 1500 mm while the scooter is in moving position. The wheel track is 765 mm and the height is 1100 mm. The car line and model is made of the scale 1: 5.

Storage space

Adjustable backrest

Compressed wheel base

Extended wheel base

Battery casing A huge capacity storage cabinet introduced at the front body to ease the user to use it while sitting on the seat. The sliding mechanism is achieved by having a telescopic circular section, which is connected to chassis and rear mono suspension of the body. The rear body is connected to the telescopic section, as the body slides, the wheel base increases and the riding position is ready. A stopper can be provided to hold the body when it is rotated and opened, through the pivot which is placed at the bottom part of the rear body. The battery casing is placed over the platform which is placed above chassis.

Bagged a Special Jury Award during AUTOEXPO 2010

Crude, mechanical, robotic, symmetrical, skeleton, static were the most visible attributes of the existing product.

Which was manipulated by using radii manipulation and the attributes of a household churner was evolved.

Evolved form out of Keywords i.e.

FLOWFUL, FEMININE, CULTURAL, DYNAMIC Also the form gives the churning character which is also the Function of Product

Turning lathe operation is learnt while making the flower pot.

A cuboid of rubber wood measuring 5 x 3 inch was given to make a productive and expand volume.

A symmetrical looking compact disk shelf is evolved from the raw wood.

A 2x2 feet corrugated sheet was given to understand its property and make a product out of it.

A laptop case was evolved by the property that corrugated material can absorb good amount of shocks.

A college assignment was performed where a right handed nail cutter was chosen to make a look alike model. The product was chosen to have a deep understanding of curves and surfaces which was fairly achieved. During the process detail knowledge of handling aluminium metal was studied.

Model was scaled up by the ratio 1:2.2 Complete model is made only by hand.

ABOUT ME : ALWAYS GEARED UP TO DIRTY MY HANDS TO CREATE A CLEAN DESIGN.

Education: Aug 2008Pursuing Post Graduate Diploma in Product Design, MIT Institute of Design, Pune Aug 2003-2007 Bachelors in Civil Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune July 2001-2003 Higher Secondary in PCM St. Josephs Convent School, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh Work Experience: Sept 2010-Feb 2011 Pursuing Internship in Crompton Greaves, Mumbai.

July 2010-Aug 2010 Internship in Forbes Marshall, Pune July 2007-2008 Worked as Structural Designer and Detailer, Neilsoft Pvt. Ltd, Pune Software Skills: Alias Studio Rhinoceros AutoCAD Photoshop Alias Sketchbook Pro Think 3

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GAURAV JAIN

Awards and Acknowledgments.

Post graduation diploma in Industrial Design MIT Institute of Design, Pune gauravonwork@gmail.com +919527560800

Applied for 3 Patents for home appliances and consumer products during internship in Crompton Greaves, Mumbai.

Bagged a special recognition in Automotive Design Challenge ’09 For the design Zygote, a scooter for youth for year 2016.