ZIJIE LIN DESIGN PORTFOLIO.
ABOUT.
ZIJIE LIN Address: 111 Ren’ai Road, Suzhou, China Mob: +86 13927289888 E-mail: dklinzj@gmail.com
EDUCATION.
EMPLOYMENT.
SKILLS.
INTERESTS.
Industrial Design BEng
Keio-NUS CUTE Center
Graphic
Ultimate Frisbee
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 2013 - Now
Singapore Design/Research assistant(intern) Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign AutoCAD Corel Painter
Founder of XJTLU Frisbee team Captain 2014-2016
ZTE Corporation Shanghai, China Design assistant(Intern) Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
Enactus Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou, China Project Executive/Manager Oct 2013 - Oct 2015
Leardership training program Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou, China Oct 2014 - MAR 2015
Volunteer XJTLU University open day (2014) XJTLU Business school opening ceremony (2014) XJTLU Independent recruitment in Guangdong (2014)
3D Modeling & Rendering Rhinoceros PTC Creo Sketchup Magica voxel Keyshot
Others Adobe premiere Cura App inventory
CUUA Final Runner-up (2015) CUUA East China Champion (2016)
Cantonese Club Founder of Cantonese Club
3D Printing 2 years Experience on FDM (makerbot mini/ultimaker2) Poly Jet (obJ24)
THIS IS ME... a young designer who is passionate about design for promoting social development and raising people's thoughts about innovation and change.
PROJECTS. 01.
SELF-CHECKOUT SYSTEM
02.
BAQ SHOPPING CENTER
03.
HAIR DRYER
04.
LAMP
05.
PAPER WAVE
06.
WOOD WAVE
07.
INFOGRAPHIC
08.
BAMBOO WORKSHOP
09.
ROBUST DESIGN PIPA
internet of things | innovation | service
innovation | concept
research | product
product
product
product
graphic | service
workshop | prototype
robust design | prototype
The LIFE-REALITED product, service, and system designs are the main focus of my previous works. Among them, hair dryer, lamp system, lights and else reflects my understanding and skills about design. Self-check system, urban complex and the international gourmet food store shows my outlook toward our FUTURE and I hope to raise PEOPLE'S THINKINGS by these projects.
- The self-checkout system is an IOT design project that creates a new kind of payment system, which could help the customer get rids of queuing and improving their shopping experience. On the same time, it promotes the development of quick pay, online payment, and self-service that will benefit people's lives and also the business of payment system.
SELF-CHECKOUT SYSMENT. Mar 2015
1.scan
BACKGROUND
2.pay 3.receipt 4.unlock
"Quick pay" is popular in China but is it really fast? When we go the fashion retailer store, we still need to wait for a long time and go through all of these processes. This tedious system really affects shopping experience and raises my think about the evolution.
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- Observation and record were conducted in the research; - The main process only takes a few time. On the contrary, most of the time are spent on finding out the labels, tags, and the time increases exponentially.
STAKEHOLDERS
- Sometimes I have to wait for a long time although I only need to buy a piece of clothing and I always want to change my decision during the queue.
- The Problem about the number of employees in low tide and peak-hour is the hardest part of management. - Shop manager
- Customer
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CONCEPT
Online payment
Payment is finished in t process of choosing and tryi Customers can use the inter to scan the bar-codes and fin payment online.
USER EXPERIENC The new payment system was generated based on the analysis of the problem of existing system and research about the shopping experience.
Shopping Process
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go! Information of payment will be updated to the Internet and customer can self-unlock the locker by the machine.
Consideration
SECURITY PROBLEM
SIGNFICANCE
IDEATION
Software The main function of the software is to provide the function of scanning so with the development of the idea, the home page was simplified to one main button with two secondary items.
- IDEATION
- HOMEPAGE
Hardware The hardware of this system focused more on the functionality and security. It can satisfy the needs of scanning, moving the tag and unlocking
- WORK FLOW
- T h e n ew p a y m e n t s y s t e m w a s demonstrated by the function model that was made by 3D-printed support, bar-code scanner, magnet, and motor. The prototype was controlled by the Arduino, which can be ordered by the application on mobile phone. When tester finishes the process of 'payment' and scan the bar-code by the scanner, the motor will drive the support down to the magnet and the locked will be unlocked manually with the help of a magnet.
· PERFORMANCE
TESTING
· SAFETY · EFFICIENCY
"The unlock method looks cool but it takes a long time so how about bulk buying?" - 25 years old, Shen(female)
Testing included usage of hardware and user tests on the application. It simulated the practical shopping process for testing the whole workflow and other principles of the design.
"How about if customer scan one code but unlock another security tag?" - 20 years old, Tiby(female)
- Researchers recorded the screens during the tests and on the same time, paid attention to the expression changes of the user and marked down for finding the problem of using.
· USEABILITY · REASONABILITY · USER-FRIENDLY
"It is convenient that if I only buy a small number of goods but it will be bored if I have to scan a lot of bar-codes." -21 years old, Simmons(male)
"The payment system in the app is still too complicated and it may make my pay more attention on the mobile phone rather than shopping." -27 years old, Yu(male)
Main use flow The initial idea of paying during the process of shopping was simplified further. After logging in the machine, the payment will be conducted acquiescently if the clothing is unlocked. This development solves the problem of bulkproblem and improves the shopping experience.
EVALUATION
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be unfolded by clicking the first level are history, favorite and follow, which pping information.
Payment & Menu The main function of this app is to show your identity and information to the machine for the further payment so QR-code will appear after clicking the main button. The contents will be activated by clicking the buttons on the top left/right. Basic settings and information are included in the menu bar and the payment mode can be added and edited in the payment bar.
- The urban complex project is a concept design project that was defined as the transition during the change of the community’s form. It advocates the idea of sharing, equality, and the communication between people. Different from directly breaking the wall of existing communities, this urban complex idea uses a kinder way to introduce the new type of communities and also raises people’ thinking about the what will be most important features in the future community.
URBAN COMPLEX. May 2016
Chinese closed communities partly hinder city development with a series
BACKGROUND
of social problems. How to promote the foster the new residential form becomes the upcoming problem of urban planning. - SHOPPING CENTER PROJECT
The problem of close community gradually raises people attentions in China and there were some related policy and measures already being released to the social. This project aimed to use concept design to solve the problems during the change of community’s form.
CLOSE COMMUNITY Opintions on the change of close community:
COMMUNICATION
TRAFFIC
Research Research of this project mainly conducted on the residents of middle-end and high-end residentials and it was about people's opinion on opening the close community.
SOCIAL INTEGRATION
POSITIONING
The idea of the urban complex was decided to be the transition of opening the community, which included most of the facilities and services that satisfy the main demand of the residents of the whole area.
Location The final location of the experimental unit was decided near the junction of Zhongxin Avenue and Changle Road. There are Duhudajun community, Eton town and etc.
CONCEPT The concept of the appearance came from pebble and water. They were used as the symbol of 'breaking' the situation of close community in China and raising people thinking about social development.
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The targeted area inc existing close commu two rivers are across geographical factor close fence becomes t of people and these are totally independen
Urban complex
IDEATION
The main building was design in the middle of the area as the main connection of these four communities. It covered the main function of the urban complex such as the shopping mall, basic facilities and else.
Assorted facilities
B r i d g e, o u td o o r fa c i l i t i and public areas form the assorted facilities of urban complex, which play important role in the transit between dwelling and main building.
The main idea was to design an urban complex as the medium of four existing communities, which could promote the flow of residents, break the physical wall of the residential and mental ‘wall’ of people. It also created a bigger communitiy and considered as an experimental unit for opening community projects.
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Population Small color lumps in the above f i g u r e d e m o n s t ra t e p e o p l e from different residential. With the help of the urban complex project, the contact of people in the different area will become more often the people’s mind are expected to be more open.
- LANDSCAPING
PROTOTYPING - MAIN BUILDING
Concept model was made by acrylic material, which was used for intuitively showing the main concept of the urban complex and the relationship between existing commnuities and itself.
- FINALIZATION
Design consultant Team - Project leader: Zijie Lin - Creator: Tian Shen, Xiaowen Zhu; - Documenter: Cong Luo
Concept model The model demonstrates the conceptual shape of the building and the landscaping around it, which show how the building is integrated with the existing residential.
VIOLET BREEZE. Mar 2016
- “Violet Breeze� Hair dryer was designed for 3040 Chinese career women. The idea came from tulip and violet, the color of dignity, with the graceful curve, is the symbol of elegant and luxury. The integral design with refined texture ideally shows the charm and identity of Chinese career women who hopes to be protected and loved under a strong appearance.
OBJECTIVE This project was from the course about aesthetic and the objective was to redesign the hair dryer and focus on the appearance. I chose 30-40 Chinese career women as the target users who looks strong in appearance but what they need most are love, care, and understanding.
“Women are the largest userbase of hairdryer but it is lack of products that can show the identity of career women." - 39 years old, Manager, Mai
“Everyone is focusing on efficiency and cost performance but it seems something is missing." - 31 years old, White-collar worker, Nana
INSPIRATION
- HANDLER
- TOP&BACK
- FRONT
The idea of this hair dryer came from the violet that represents maturity female at some level and the shape of it was decided by the conceptual map, which was integrated and elegance.
MODELING
- BACK
- TOP
- BUTTON
- FRONT
- HANDLER
The initial CAD models were 3D printed for the refinement process, which helps me intuitively reconsider about the basic shape. Then, each part of the hair dryer, especially the design of the front and handler, were developed to the final design.
INTERACTION
Hard rough plastic purple Paint matte purple Copper rough White cream
SPRIAL UP. Nov 2015
- Lamp system – “Spiral Up” was designed for the 10th anniversary of XJTLU. The combination of the curve and angular straight line represent the mutualistic relationship between staffs and students. Also, it suggests the tremendous hope and expectation for the future. It will be located in the path between library and science buildings.
BACKGROUND The area showed in the photo is a garden between central building and science buildings. It was the place that people went through every day but few of them stopped and enjoyed the beauty of the garden. The main purpose of this design was to make the space more attractive to students and staffs.
SCIENCE BUILDINGS
CENTRAL BUILDING Flow
INSPIRATION Chopsticks are the main sources of inspiration. It represents every Chinese proud of the traditional culture and the material - wood or bamboo provoked some interesting thoughts. From the shape to the material, a series of sketches were generated for the evolution of the final idea.
- WOOD - BAMBOO
- SPIRAL
REFINEMENT
- FINAL DESIGN
- PLAN
- INITIAL
- SCALE
Compared with the initial design of the lamp, the integral line of the appearance looks lighter and smoother. The greatest change of it is the top, which replaced by a stagger and upward structure.
FINALIZATION
Wood Aluminium alloy
PAPER WAVE. Apr 2016
- T h i s i d e a wa s f ro m t h e s c a t t e re d paper cups that raise attention on white pollution. The pattern of a heap of paper cups looks like the wave, which is designed and showed in this lamp.
WOOD WAVE. Apr 2016
- SCALE
- IDEATION
- Wood wave was specifically designed to be the subsequent outcome of the 'paper wave' lamp. Inspired by the rolling surf with rising sun, this lamp abstractly show the concept of adversity and hopes. Using the material of wood chip to demonstrate the flexibility of wave is another highlight of the design.
INFOGRAPHIC. Oct 2016
- The infographic workshop included two sections: research section by groups and individual graphic design. The objective of this workshop was to come out with a business model for a new international gourmet food store. The design outcomes would be demonstrated by an A1 infographic and a scroll image for the mobile device.
immersive gourmet food store
-“everything is from nature”
4. Mountain
3. Sea world 2. pasture
Meals, milks and this kind of goods are somthing that we only can see the finished products but in here, you can even touch the sheeps or cow. The sense of touching will make you get rid of the doubt about food safety and health problem.
When people talk about the seafood market, the first sense is always messy and fishy. In this case, smell are replaced by sight by creating a scenario of seaworld. Aquarium, port and ocean are the main items of this area.
This sense is designed from selling the delicacies from the mountains such as mushroom and all kinds of spices that made by the materials from forest or mountain. Sound is the key scense of this area so when you entry the space, you can hear differents voices from birds, something small rustles, which give you the feeling of sweeping over the mountains.
5. Dream world
The best way to persuade you to buy a dessert is asking you to taste one. The dream world is exactly an area that you can try almost every desserts here. That somewhere not only can feast your eyes on but also satisfy your taste buds.
1. farm
The farm is the first sense of the store that returns the original smell from the country side. The air is fresh and you can smell the delicate fragrance of vegetables and fruits. Compared with picking them from shelfs, the feeling of picking vegetable from ground will promote the purchasing desire.
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“Immersive gourmet food store are designed for providing completely new modes of the shopping experience. Rather than selecting goods from the shelves, customers are led to the environment that creates the feeling of picking foods from nature. Five scenes with five senses are used as the basic themes of different areas for promoting customers immersed in the atmosphere. It is not a store anymore but a natural word with delicacies. The poster and scroll graphics use pixel graphs to demonstrate the shopping experience in this gourmet foods store.”
BAMBOO WORKSHOP. Nov 2016
- The bamboo workshop was jointly held by Industrial design and Architecture departments. Students worked in pairs to design a fence for the second floor of XJTLU material library with the bamboo material. Basic skills of making things with bamboo were showed by craftsmen and each group was asked to make two small scale prototypes and a full-scale model.
- The main idea of my design was using bamboo to create a curve and streamlined fence that could attractive people to lay on it. Material library is the place where visitors could touch and feel things so the concept was about the interaction between fence and people. The small scale prototype shows the basic shape of my design and the full-scale one demonstrates the function and scene of people laying on it.
- INSPIRATION
- CONCEPT
- PROTOTYPE1
- PROTOTYPE2
ROBUST DESIGN. May 2016
- Robust design project provided reliable references for the improvement and redesign of Chinese traditional instrument ‘Pipa’, through a series of testing and studies. We mainly researched on the principle – volume by conducting pre-test, experiments and confirming experiments on five selected factors.
Factors a. Internal depth b. Position of bean c. Roughness d. Position of sound hole e. Size of sound hole f. Height of tailpiece
DATA ANALYSIS
Factor Effects R/N Ratio
- ANALYSIS
3.
CONFIRMING EXPERIMENT
Factor Effects Means
- Test1
2.
- Test2
EXPERIMENTS
- TESTING
- MATERIAL
- RESEARCH
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