INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER JORDEN CHEN
Contents 01. Expedition - Emergency Survival Tool
06. Solidworks Modeling - Toy and Bicycle
02. Offering - Sustainable Design
07. Ergonomic Study
03. Embrace - Manufacturing and Production
08. Foundations - Lines and Forms
04. EVOLVE Tricase - Branding and Marketing
05. Coffee Machine Redesign
Safety First in your Adventure. The system will combine new technology with traditional tool to ensure people have a safe adventure.
01. Expedition Design for Emergency Survival Situation Product design / Ergonomics / UI
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When you get hurt in the wild. What might happen during your adventure?
55% of the outdoor injuries are sprain, strain, fracture.
First aid products in the current market are either cheap or complicated. They require professional knowledge to use. The opportunity here is to create a new product that is intuitive for the users and help them without professional knowledge.
Twig + Piece of Cloth
First Aid Kit with 25+ products
50% of the injuries resulted in broken bones or sprain.
48% of the primary causes of outdoor injures are falling.
25% of the emergency room visits are the result of outdoor activities.
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New Design Opportunity
Professional Fracture Kit + 3 lbs
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Design language The new design needs to be friendly and intuitive for non-professional to operate. It would also reduce confusion or psychological stress to the users.
Friendly
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Neutral
Intuitive
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Need some help, but how? The concepts explore a variety of emergency equipment and address different ways to solve the problem. These concepts all combine traditional tools with high-end technology.
Traditional Professional Tool
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Smart Medical Advisor
Diagnosis
Bleeding & Laceration
Fracture & Sprain
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Friendly, Neutral, Intuitive Prototypes help to understand the proportion and functions of this product. It is further developed to be more friendly and intuitive for the users. The size is also reduced to make users more inclined to carry it during a casual trip.
Simple & Functional
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Liquid bandage cartridge
Saline cartridge PCB
Recessed botton
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Touch screen
Evaluate the situation The scanner can evaluate the situation. It can suggest treatment methods and apply liquid bandage if necessary. The cartridges are changeable to suit different environments.
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Scanner
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Battery
3D Scanner technology The 3D scanner uses a sensor to pick up the light reected from the object and calculate the distance from the object to scanner. The technology is predicted to develop by 2021 and is very precise on surface curves and able to pick up materials. Which can help this scanner to analyze wounds or even small bumps on the body.
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Right Angle, Proper Protection With the scan result, sometimes a splint is necessary. The splint can bend and auto-lock in different angles to fit different body areas. The retractable strap will automatically tighten to the suggested setting so it can be effective but not cutting off circulation.
Retractable strap
Waterproof compartment for battery/ components
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Flat surface for stabilization
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Auto-lock hinge
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Treatment situation, it records for you The scanner can track time, location, and vital signs. It can alert emergency responders if necessary and record the treatment details such as time and splint pressure.
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02. Offering Design for a Sustainable Future Sustainable design / System design
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Design a System, Not Just a Product. A product’s life cycle involves many stages. The new design explores opportunities in the entire system and reduces the product’s environmental impact from a holistic perspective.
Air Purifier Redesign, Every Part Counts in the Life Cycle. Break down the original product into parts and find out the product’s life cycle. Use Okala practitioner as a guide to quantify the environmental impact of the product in each stage of its life. 21
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Products and Packages
Modular
Modular design allows replaceable parts.
FlatPack
Reduce volume and easy to maintenance.
Planter
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Mock ups for both packages and products are made to learn more in form. Packages has 2 directions, lightest weight possible, or have a second life to serve another purpose. The “second life� direction is taken considered products need more protections during the transportation.
Use natural organism in the product.
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Package is part of the product (planter)
Easy maintenance and disassembly.
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Integrated a planter to increase the total lifetime.
The rectangle design reduced waste space
Recycled ABS and Local manufacturers
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Use living organisms in the system as a natural air puriďŹ er
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Increased Lifetime, Reduced Impact. The overall impact is reduced to below 30% with the new system. Users can enjoy fresh air with this new product with much less impact to the environment.
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Design is driven by the persona and manufacturing processes
03. Embrace
Use the same design language to design a product with low volume and high volume production. In order to attract persona from different backgrounds with similar interest.
Personal Smart Speaker Color / Material / Finish / Manufacturing processes
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IoT
Wireless Power
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Elegant, Innovative, Personal
Low Volume Successful businessman willing to try the most advanced technology. Enjoy sports and nature during their leisure time. Highly evaluate the importance of entertainment and living quality.
High Volume Young men around their 20’s. Share the similar interest with the businessman but need a more cost-effective resolution to afford the product.
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Low Volume Production Volume: 1,000 Production Cost: $ 1270 Retail Price: $ 4000
Wood adds a sense of natural, warm, personality Anodized black aluminum creates prestige, value, and a sense of timelessness.
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High Volume Production Volume: 100,000 Production Cost: $ 76 Retail Price: $ 280
The rubber texture is inspired by protective sports equipment based on the persona’s interest. Black and red colors show that this product has advanced technology and reflects the persona’s personality.
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Sand Casting
Injection Molding
Sand Casting
3D Printing CNC Multi-shot Injection Molding
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A New Brand for Urban Explorers. Urban explorers, traveling creatives who wants to show their taste and personality through the products they use.
04. EVOLVE Tricase Design for Urban Explorers Branding / Marketing / Production
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EVOLVE’s Work flow:
Branding
Team Research
Branding EVOLVE
Product
Team 1 PenCase
Team 2 WhiteBoard
Team Ideation
Brand Research Marketing
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Team Marketing
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The New Brand - Personal, Functional, Powerful.
Material
Personal: developed with the user in mind, to be utilized in different contexts. Functional: Usable, practical, associated with an interaction to the user. Powerful: Used to help deďŹ ne user, represents who they are.
Wallet
Holder
Unique Unexpected Case
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A New Language The new design redeďŹ nes a product that people use in their everyday life. We evolved the pen case. The design conveys an uniqueness for the users while considering manufacturing methods for mass production.
Textile Hinge
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Magnet
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Hidden tin sheet for magnet
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05. Coffee Machine Redesign for Small Space Industrial design
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Fast and Easy
Smaller the Household, Faster the living style.
There is an opportunity to create a product for a small household that contains the basic functions and ďŹ ts better into people’s fast pace living style today.
House Appliances need to change too. The average American household consisted of 2.54 people in 2014
50% of the household has only 1-2 person 68% of the coffee drinkers would like to have coffee within an hour of wake up
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Provide an open space for water vapor.
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Small, compact design for one person or small living space.
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LED light to indicate the status such as coffee is ready or low water level.
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Detachable cap for placing the coffee or easy cleaning.
Adjustable cord ring: the machine can be placed in different direction without accommodate the cord.
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06. Submarine Surface Modeling & Rendering Submarine toy design using green toys’ design language.
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06. Bicycle Customized model building
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07. Checkout Machine Redesign Ergonomics Redesign a checkout machine/ UI/ UX to fit in convenient store’s small space
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07. X-acto Knife Ergonomics design an ergonomic Xacto knife handle
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08. Foundation Rectiliner and Curvilinear Shapes and Proportion
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08. Foundations
Soap
Speaker
Design for Youth Hostile
Component House
It is low cost and one time use soap. The hole in the middle reduce the material and make it easy to hold. The square shape reduce the storage space since most of the youth hostiles don’t have much space.
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Redesign a speaker to make it fits to new target customers.
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