ABOUT My love for art and design started when I was a kid. This led me to start my career in design field. My first exposure toward design was through Architeture and advanced to do masters in Industrial design. As a designer, I love to work and strive to make a change as well as impact in the user’s experience.
RESEARCH Who? what?
RESEARCH INSIGHTS
DESIGN GOALS
DESIGN ITERIATION
RAYD(E)ANCE
Is a Lotus flower inspired CHANDELIER designed to mimic various cultures around the world. The petals arround them allows the light rays pass through the patterns imprinted on the petals as
Project Beirf To design a Luxury Chandiler, using wood as primary material. To apply appropriate wood working techniques to develop and visualize concepts and ideas in both two and three dimensions.
Concept Inspiration we are goup of 5 students consists of a globally diverse community of students. Despite this diversity, the team discovered that, due to language and culture barriers and lack of viable opportunitiesto explore other cultures.
Lotus is
a holly symbol for several religions and cultures. The lotus flower is mainly considered as a symbol of rebirth since it rises from darkness and turns into a beautiful flower. The lotus is also thought of as a symbol of human consciousness on the path to spiritual enlightenment.
Ideation
Design inspiration from dance forms in different cultures. The petals of a lotus are arranged in concentric layers. This gradual opening in stages has been used as a metaphor to describe how we attain higher levels of self-realization and consciousness as we progress spiritually.
Quick models
Finalized concept
Prototype and Rendered Model
RAY-D(E)ANCE
Seed is a toy that increase baby’s desire to learn to walk. It also transforms to improve baby’s developmentat multiple stages.
QUICK WASH
Future innovations Most dishwasher innovation in the U.S. seems to be focused on eff iciency—systems that require less water and less electricity,but are still able to actually clean dishes.
Self-Cleaning Plate May Mean You’ll Never Have To Do The Dishes Slobby housemates rejoice! A special liquid-resistant coating makes cleaning up after your self as easy as dumping your leftovers Notes Though the overall customer satisfaction was negative the product is a good leaping point fo future innovation for easy cleaning. The liquid resistant coating could be applied on the interior walls of the dishwasher in order to avoid the food stains on the wall surfaces.
“Cleaning should be easy enough that it doesn’t require a manual.”
Full time Masters student
Lives with 2 other students in a shared house
KELSEY MCKENZIE Age 26
Ideation
Developed Concepts
The web structure allows the dishes to face the water jets ditectly, which means the users don’t have to scrape food off of the dishes before loading
Hydraulic drawers
Tray design.
However I found the design occupied too much space. I spent time ideating further inorder to solve the excess space problem.
Quick models
Inorder to save space, I endedup changing the horizontal arrangement to vertical one.
Mockups
After building the prototype, I found the design could handle very few dishes / cycle.
To further my design process I prototyped alternate methods of arrangeng dishes.
Select the load type using the controls
To clean QUICK WASH unscrew the cover, easily take apart the racks and rinse out the mesh.
The users don’t have to scrape food off of the dishes before loading. Because the dishes are now facing the jets it made sense to keep the racks at 45 degree angle.
The combinations of the research and prototyping, QUICK WASH is a beautiful and intelligent system for solving the problem that college students face when cleaning the dishes
SCENE 1
SCENE 2
It’s Christmas Eve and Kelsey is in LA.
Kelsey is excited about her friends visiting her for dinner
SCENE 3
SCENE 4
Kelsey and her friends are enjoying and having dinner together
After the dinner they are placing the used dishes in the sink.
SCENE 5
SCENE 6
The Anti-Gem detection pod attached to the sink detcets the dirt on the dishes placed in the sink. and indicate Quick wash.
Quick wash signals the user to place the dirty dishes in to the washer.
This way kelsey have control over the sink getting dirty and over loaded.
( A wax is dissolved in carbon dioxide at high pressure and temperature, and then sprayed )
Cover (Frosted glass)
( stainless steel with nylon coat )
Upper tray for small bowls and cups ( stainless steel with nylon coat ) Tray for silverware Mesh to clean the dirt
( stainless steel )
( stainless steel with nylon coat )
( stainless steel with nylon coat )
( stainless steel with nylon coat )
Support for water jets
Bottom tray for vessels and plates
( stainless steel ) ( stainless steel with nylon coat )
( PVC plastic )
Water jets
Mesh to clean the dirt
Lid to cover the motor & pipes
( PVC plastic )
Inlet and out let pipes
AMBER
Amber is a piece of furniture designed with casting wood with Resin
Development process
Development process
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