Maria johnsson portfolio
Maria johnsson portfolio 2015
2015
johnsson portfolio
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index
Johnsson Vision
01 - In Case
02 - weme
03 - Volvo harness
RFHL
PieP
Volvo CE
Design premiss
How can we implement a new solution to ensure safety within Syringe exchange programs?
Package a new brainstorming method in a physichal, yet interactive format.
Develop a fourth core value of Volvo Constructon Equipment
04 - B-handy
05 -johnsson cv
06 - know how
contact
DjäknebÜle emballage AB
Work & education
Software experience
Information
A reusable emballage, with small environmental footprint and innovative functionality.
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johnsson vision
johnsson vision Diverse perspectives are of highest significance whenever you’re working in a team, or pushing decisions singlehandedly. It’s my firm belief that you need friction of some sort, whether it’s diversity in opinion, taste, reference, background or even impulse it helps us expose more possibilities and therefore come up with the best results. I believe designing is not supposed to be clean or convenient, in order to make good design you should be ready to wear down stainless tools. The designer role is stirring things up, and carefully mantling every piece deliberately as they settle. To design is to be responsibly passionate, and as a designer, this is what I’ll strive for.
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01 - in case
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01 - in case
in case Degree project on safer syringe exchange systems for RFHL - Rättigheter Frigörelse Hälsa & Likabehandling Sudden occurrences of blood disease carried onwards through reused injection equipment such as plungers, needles, cups and filters are causing more cities to apply for allowance of financing syringe exchange programs. My project is about safety and harm reduction amongst injection drug users through exchange. Except for retrieving old tools in exchange for new sterile ones, the systems allows for basic healthcare, testing for disease and a possible way into treatment. In towns where they have already been implemented, cases of reported diseases have been reduced drastically, but there is still a risk for hepatitis and HIV to spread due to re-usage. How can we implement a new solution in order to hinder blood from contaminating several parts and equipment from being lost or possibly harmful when carried between exchanges? Is there any way of changing the products themselves in order to restrain risk of contamination and take advantage of the possibility that comes with controlling what and how tools are handed out?
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01 - in case
project
a - blood disease
b - hands on experience
RFHL
Research
Research
Graduation project in the bachelor’s program at Umeå institute of design.
Blood disease is easily transferred through reusage of plungers, cups, filters and needles. This causes HIV and Hepatitis to spread between users.
I tried out practical usage in order to better understand how users percieved visual and tactile information with a focus on how the syringe could confirm that the needle had penetrated a vein.
Broject brief : find a safer way of carrying and using tools handed out through syringe exchange programmes to injection drug users, in order to prevent blood bourne disease from spreading.
Since the tools aren’t originally designed for this specific area of usage, I studied preparation and injection in detail.
c - flowchart Usage Detailed flowcharts were made in order to pinpoint where in the process disease could be transferred, what sections could be altered and which had to remain unchanged.
d - observation Malmö Syringe exchange I met up with a total group of 22 users at Malmö syringe exchange clinique for separate interviews. They demonstrated how preparation and injection would go about so that I could understand how tools are commonly handled, in order to design a solution acceptable to the target group.
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01 - in case
e - modelling Formstudies Mockups and functional models were made in order to find the best possible form in which a user could carry three sets of tools safely and discreet.
f - case Final result The final concept is a case that can be refilled and emptied during exchange. It holds three set’s of plungers, a safety capsule for three needles, cups for blending, bandages and disinfective pads. .
g - Needle Final result This solution is combined with a next generation needle, preventing blood from remaining in reusable parts after the injection equipment have been used once.
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02 - weme
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02 - weme
weme Product- and service-packaged brainstorm-method for PieP
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02 - weme
project
a - move
b- user studies
PieP
Method
Workshops
This project was carried out together with other students within interdiciplinary teams, including design students from UID and interaction students from Umeå University.
The method was called MOVE and it involved four different stages. My team worked on how to “Engage in practical action”, that is, how to retrieve information from a brainstorm or workhop and convert it into a time plan in order to practically make it happen.
We carried out workshops together with a creative team from a local company to determine which concept was more successful. Through our sessions with them we soon established a model which was more likely to engage all participants.
Project brief : package a new brainstorming method from PieP in a physichal, yet interactive format.
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02 - weme
C - projection Solution We aimed towards making an interactive product which projected a framework-version of the PieP-method onto a plane surface. Research put us up with a technical solution that matched our requirements.
D - web service Cloud The technical solution also enabled the ability to scan and post workshop information on an online service accessible to all participants after session. Workshops were carried out to properly define a user-friendly experience.
E - weme Model WeMe ended up being a lighthouse inspired projector placeable in the middle of a table. It projected different planning stages in a circular pattern which internal rings represented common and individual timelines for its participants.
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03 - volvo harness
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03- volvo harness
volvo harness Design guidelines and a fourth core value for Volvo Construction Equipment
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03 - volvo harness
project
a - Moodboards
b - inspiration
c - identification
Design guidelines
Brand Identity
Expression
Brainstorm
This project had an aim at getting to know a brand as thorough as possible.
Visualizing the Volvo CE expression, evaluating the current forms in order to create a next generation design language with clear connections to the heritage of the brand.
The expression i went for was inspired by folded metal framing combined with an exaggerated version of the shoulders often seen in Volvo series.
In order to come up with a new core value, brainstorm sessions were carried out. Different qualities were collected in subgroups and narrowed down to one final value.
Project brief : Find a fourth core value for Volvo construction equipment and translate that value into design guidelines compatible with the brand.
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Quality Is what drives us Reliable products and services.
Y T I L A U
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Q
Safety Is no accident
Y T E F A
Constantly improving safety.
S Environment Is ours to protect The least possible adverse impact on the environment.
EN
N O R I V
T N ME
Uniqueness In confidence Enabling the user to experience confidence and control.
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F - concept sketching
140°
Idéation In order to find a formlanguage to reflect the new core value a large number of variations were drawn. I named my final form The Volvo Harness.
110° 90°
X/2+X/7 140°
X X
160° X/2
X - X / 11 X X/2
X/2
d -hut
e -rules
Application
Definiton
“Our unique value is expressed in the way our products enable the user to experience confidence and control.” The new shape would be situated specifically on the hut, since that’s where the main controlling is managed from.
To make sure that the new expression would be applied correctly, measurements and angles were defined in detail.
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G - 3d shape Modeling Whireframe models helped apply the shape onto the machine exterior.
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03 - volvo harness
HARNESS
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H - Profile
I - Back
J - Poster
Formstudies
Placement
Formstudies
The sign was put together to embrace the entire hut and a profile emerged.
The back of the harness was ideal for carrying logo, since it catches the observers eye and enhances the typography.
Final poster with the sign in its descisive angle.
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K - applied on vehicle Concept The Volvo harness applied to a Volvo CE hut.
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05 - B-Handy 04 B-handy
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04 - B-handy
b handy emballage Reusable emballage for DjäknebÜle emballagefabrik AB
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04 - B-handy
c - factors Analysis During the project it was important to consider the different requirements of a reusable emballage in order to satisfy the customer. Water resistance, due to long travel distances at sea, as well as supporting heavy weight when stapeled were some examples.
D - ergonomics Workflow I considered where handles should be placed and where weight preferably should be distributed in order to offer a natural lifting-position for the assembler.
project
a - environment
b - Ideation
Djäkneböle Emballage AB
Research
Expandable
This project was carried out in collaboration with Djäkneböle Emballagefabrik AB during a 4 week period.
In order to better understand the handling of todays emballages, extensive observations were made at Volvo trucks in Umeå. By doing that, physical and cognitive exhaustion could be pinpointed as possibly soluble problems.
The concept was a collapsible construction that can be assembled and dismantled by one person instead of three. Extrudable bellow-shaped sideparts in fiber cloth with water repellent coating reduces weight considerably.
Project brief : The company requests a reusable emballage, with small environmental footprint and innovative functionality.
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04 - B-handy
e - detail Formstudies Truck parts can easily be carried or robotically lifted on to the emballage with either one side already closed or both sides open. When packing is finished, pedals are pressed, releasing air into the bellows, making them easily expandable from one side to the other.
F - final concept Caid modeling Finished caid-model of the B-handy Emballage. The lid is hidden on the short side of the emballage, pulling it over to the opposite side finishes the assembly.
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a - Semcon 2013 -
e - Strandholmen Äldreboende 2013
Industrial Designer
Temp
Since 2013 I’ve been working as an Industrial designer at Semcon, participating in various product development projects, mainly interaction design for medical equipment.
In the summer of 2012 and 2013 I’ve been working extra as a nurse in a nursinghome called Standholmen near Umeå.
b -Uminova Innovation 2013
f -Träakademien Kramfors 2012
Summer entrepeneur
Entrepeneur
During the summer of 2013 I’ve been working as an entrepeneur in cooperation with Uminova Innovation in Umeå.
During a few days in 2012, me and a classmate were asked to lead a workshop at Träakademien in Kramfors. We held presentations and managed a workshop for thirty students within educations in forging, upholstery and woodwork.
c -Sliperiet 2013
g -Zenit Design Studio Malmö 2012
Consultant
Intern
My mission during this position was to map potential target groups interested in using the FabLab. Beyond that, the assignment was to consider which preparing knowledge is needed, aswell as what the service would cost to each user and visualize this as a handbook for Sliperiet to use during their start up.
During the spring term of 2012 I had a ten week long internship at Zenit Design Studio in Malmö, where I participated in working with new products. Here I gained a lot of modeling experience both in workshop and Rhinoceros Caid-software.
d - Algoryx multiphysics 2013
h - Dyrö Krog AB 2011
Consultant
Waitress & cashier
During the project with Algoryx research was carried out surrounding 3D-printing technologies aswell as work with a marketing case to demonstrate the value in using Algoryx simulation software in combination with 3D-printing.
During the late summer of 2011 I worked as a waitress, cashier and bartender at a restaurant on the island Dyrön outside of Gothenburg.
05 - johnsson cv i - Street Sushi Bar 2011 Waitress & cashier From the spring of 2010 I worked as a waitress and cashier at Sea Street Sushi Bar in central Umeå. At the restaurant, my roll was to oblige the customers, take orders, serve sushi meals and be in charge of the counter.
industrial design bachelor 2013 Umeå Institute of Design
j -Feelgood Företagshälsovård 2009 Archivist During the summer of 2009 I worked for Feelgood, where I managed scanning, archive and sorting of journals and company documents. After a short period of preparatory training I learnt how to handle certain archive services through which I managed the scanned documents.
Design communication II 2011 Umeå university / Umeå Institute of Design 7,5 hp
k -Lottas Krog 2007 Waitress I worked as a waitress at Lottas Krog in Umeå, where I learnt to handle an occasionally stressful working climate, when serving meals and keeping the resturant clean.
design communication I 2010 Umeå university / Umeå Institute of Design 7,5 hp
l - Västerbottenskuriren 2006 Illustration I freelanced at the local paper, making illustrations for written articles. At Västerbottenskuriren I interpreted themes and text-material into idéas that I developed through sketches to a final illustration before deadline.
industrial design introduction 2010 Umeå universty / Umeå Institute of Design 15 hp
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Maria johnsson portfolio 2015
2015