PRODUCT DESIGN PORTFOLIO Yuhina L. Lachungpa yuhina.l@nid.edu
Contents Workshop Skills
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Representation Techniques
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Simple Product Design
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Form I, II and III
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Arduino Project
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Workspace Ergonomics
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Open Elective: Origami
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Display and Controls
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Material Exploration
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Bamboo Workshop
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Snow Workshop
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Phone Application Design
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Craft Documentation
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CV.
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Workshop Skills
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Representation Techniques
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Hand Drill Rendered on Sketchbook Pro 10
A5 Printer Scanner inspired by the Nokia Lumia series Rendered on Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop 11
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Simple Product Design : Redesigning the Tongue Cleaner
What is a Tongue Cleaner?
The tongue cleaner is a stiff strip of stainless steel or plastic which one uses to scrape off plaque and other impurities from the tongue. The part which is used to do so is absolutely flat. The two handles on either side are slightly bent inwards to provide grip and the ends are rounded for grip as well as safety.
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Questioning the need for the product We did this through a series of small assignments which gave us a better understanding of the product 1. Losing the function 2. Removing components 3. Mapping all product interactions 4. For the extreme user 5. Changing the interaction 6. Future of the product
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Types of tongue cleaners and storage
Observations and opportunities No actual storage space for a tongue cleaner Either hung on hooks or kept in toothbrush stands Takes up unnecessary space Could be made more compact Very exposed
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Integrating the toothbrush and the tonguecleaner Ideation phase
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Selected concept The tongue cleaner lies inside the toothbrush. The two halves of the toothbrush become the two handles of the tongue cleaner. It is compact and easy to carry without being exposed.
Prototype images
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Final product renders Materials
Toothbrush: Polypropylene. has snap-fit ability Tongue cleaner: Thin, flexible and strong strips of Polypropylene or stainless steel Grip and waterproofing: TPE (Thermoplastic elastomer / rubber)
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Moodboard
Offset project: Tongue cleaners for kids
Ideation drawings
Early prototypes
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Introducing the Lolly-clean Tasty tongue cleaners for kids
Kids are the most hesitant when it comes to oral hygiene. Tasty lollypop-shaped tongue cleaners are made from silicone for tender mouths. Handle is filled with flavour that can be squeezed upwards. Flavouring contains xylitol which naturally occurs in fruits and vegetables and fights cavity causing bacteria. It reduces cavities by upto 80%. Happier kids, cleaner tongues.
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Form I, II and III
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Form I Form - I had us drawing random forms for days on end leading to a Plaster-of-Paris sculpture and culminating in a gorgeous batch display for the entire community.
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Form II
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An exercise in abstracting form based on where it falls on the cute to sensuous scale. The face I chose fell at the extreme sensuous end with a lot of definition and hard cuts. I have portrayed the same in the abstract painting on the right. 27
Futuristic
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Neutral
We started off with finding 3D forms in doodles, choosing one which interested us,resolving it, finding our neutral form and then translating it into cute, sensuous, futuristic and retro forms accordingly, based on our previous understanding of what makes a form fall in either one of those categories. The forms were made from thermacol and coated with white putty. 28
Form III For our 3rd Form course we worked in groups of 6 and studied the brand language of a particular phone brand. We chose to study Nokia and particularly the Lumia series. We designed a series of printers based on the Nokia Lumia phone depending on which economic tier it would fall under. 29
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Three of our most intense courses ever. Lessons learned include paying the minutest attention to detail, converting human observations into professional analyses, a minimalistic approach is a complex approach, and a lot about ourselves along the way. 31
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Arduino Project
Arduino Project Experiential Wreath Team project: Parashar Agravat, Yuhina L. Lachungpa
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The project intended to translate what we see on a flat rectangular computer screen into a tactile real-world experience. Thus was born the Experiential Wreath of the superblogger. Worn around the head, almost like a crown, it alerts the user of pop-ups appearing on his/ her screen without him/her actually having to look at the screen. This is facilitated by a strip of blinking coloured LED’s (at the two ends of the wreath near the eyes, like ‘blinkers’) corresponding to the most recognisable colour scheme of the pop-up window. For example, if a twitter feed pops up, an LED of a twitter blue starts blinking. A skype pop-up would mean an LED of a skype blue, and so on. The product aims at bringing a 2D experience to life.
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The renders to the right show the LED’s in action. The glowing red icon at the back is the on/off touch switch as well as the product logo.
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Workspace Ergonomics
Brief: Multipurpose lectern for design studios at NID. Context: Presentations and discussions are frequent at the design studios and there is a need for a mutipurpose lectern. Users: Under-graduate and post-graduate students, exhange students, faculty and staff members. Tasks: Individual and group presentations, brainstorming sessions, non academic events. Consideration of sitting and standing postures at work.
Ideation sketches
Paper models
Team members: Mukesh Kumar, Shipra Prasad, Suraj Patel, Utkarsh Arya, Yuhina L. Lachungpa
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The final product is a table-cum-lectern. It merges seamlessly with the other tables in the studio. One half of the table is made of two movable parts connected with hinges that let it move either up or down. For example, the user may pull it upwards while standing and presenting or he may push it down for an easier sketching height. The unique foot-rest is bi-directional letting people sitting on either side benefit from it.
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Open Elective : Origami
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This was done as part of a 2-week open elective course. Origami has also been one of my childhood loves and I all but jumped at the chance to explore some more of this fascinating craft. We constructed icosahedrons, dodecahedrons, hypars, kalmon chains, vasostellas and waterbombs, among other things. As part of our final display a group of 4 of us constructed an installation called ‘The Catepillar’ as seen on the left. 40
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Display and Controls : Activity Monitoring Device
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Activity Monitoring Device
Design brief To design a portable device which monitors and promotes physical activity of the user at all times.
Product requirements The device should connect to a smartphone or a PC through a micro USB or bluetooth and all the data uploads to a central server. The user should be able to view all relevant details on his/her smartphone or PC to monitor progress.
This was done as a mock live project. Identifying the existing trends in the market and what was missing in them was key. Value addition in terms of convenience of use, form and the ‘human touch’ were what set the product apart. 44
Target segment Professionals, business owners, homemakers, urban youth in the age group of 25 - 60 years.
Product intervention in daily life
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Form Explorations: Thermacol mock-ups and sketches
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Rhino models with colour and texture options
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Sample display on product
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Material Exploration
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Bathing loofah and massager. Handmade using natural material found in the NID campus.
This was a fun mini-project where we had to look for materials around the NID campus and make a product by the end of the day. Swarna Srimal and I worked together on this and came up with this loofah-cum-massager. The textures of the different materials added to their appropriateness.
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Sand casting experiment
This was done as part of our Materials and Processes course. We went to the industry and did our own little sand casting projects. I took one of my thermacol forms which I placed in a mould and packed with sand. Then molten aluminium was poured into vents which were provided. The thermal melted and left in its stead this heavy bit of alluminium. This process where the original form is lost is called lost-foam casting. 51
Silicone casting project
This was a very fun project. We had to look for forms we wanted to replicate and coat them with a mixture or silicone and hardener. Once it set, we made a plaster-of-paris mould around it to hold its shape. We then removed the original forms and poured resin into the hollows. Once it set, it looked like this. When pure resin is poured, it becomes transparent. When the resin is mixed with chalk to thicken the mixture, the resultant forms are opaque. 52
Sand basting project
Bamboo Workshop
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Bamboo workshop Basket weaving
Basketry is such a beautiful, ecofriendly, ethnic craft. Exploring the splitting properties and the directional strength of bamboo fiber was best learned through making my very own basket. 54
Snow Workshop : ECAL, Switzerland
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Snow Workshop: The Freezer team Seed Concept: It is an agricultural tool made from ice to plant seeds. The conical shape makes it easy to dig and insert into the soil without any extra tools. Afterwards, the cone will melt and feed the seed
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In early 2012 we had the grand opportunity of going on a week-long batch exchange programme to ECAL, Switzerland. It was an amazing experience and we got to witness, firsthand, the design sensibilities of the west.
Process of prototyping
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Making mould
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Heating polystyrene sheet
Gearing up for product photography
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Getting ready to push mould into warm pliable polystyrene
Adding final touches
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Vacuum forming polystyrene
Final product
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Phone Application Design 58
This was a phone application design concept submission for the Samsung-USID competition. A team of 4 of us worked out the wireframes to explain the interaction between users. Our other app ‘Notefy� went on to win the 3rd prize in the competition later. 59
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Craft Documentation : Thanka Painting
Thanka painting is an enchanting art form. Talking to the artists, finding out the processes, the training involved, the tools of the trade and its early history opened me up spiritually and almost took me back in time when Buddha still lived. 65
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Name : Yuhina Lhamu Lachungpa Email : yuhina.l@nid.edu Education 2010-present : Product Design, National Institute of Design 2010 : ISC from Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok, Sikkim 2008 : ICSE from Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok, Sikkim Hello. I am an enthusiastic third year under-graduate student of Product Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. I am currently on the lookout for an 8-10 weeks internship project from April to May. I am very passionate about design in all its forms, the environment, music-making and dance. I also have a great fondness for the fun, quirky and random.
Courses completed Workshop skills in model making and mechanisms Representation Techniques I and II Elements of Form I, II and III Materials and Processes I, II Technical Studies I, II Physical Ergonomics Workspace Ergonomics Simple Product Design Display and Controls Value Engineering Product Photography Design Management I, II Orthographic CAD Indigenous Innovations History of Art and Design Sience and Liberal Arts I, II, III Craft Documentation Languages known English, Hindi, Nepali, Konkani Software Skills Photoshop, Indesign, Sketchbook Pro, Balsamiq, Google sketch-up, Rhinoceros (learning), Keyshot, MS PowerPoint, Keynote
Areas of Interest Lifestyle and accessory design, Rendering, Prototyping, Environmental design Other interests Collaborating on music projects, singing, DIY, dance, swimming, baking Workshops attended 2012 : Bamboo Workshop, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad Project : Basket weaving 2012 : Snow Workshop, ECAL, Switzerland Project : To create innovative tools for the freezer 2012 : LG Electronics Ideation Workshop, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad Project :The future of the the television viewing experience 2012 : Samsung-USID Student Design Challenge Project : To design a phone application for the real world by the end of 2012 Scholarships held (since 2010) NID Freeship Ford Foundation Scholarship Other Participated as a group in Chaos, the dance choreography event held at IIM- Ahmedabad 2010 - 1st prize 2011 - 2nd prize 2012 - 2nd prize 2011 - participated in the solo vocal music event at Chaos - IIM 2012 - Participated in ‘Mood Indigo’, dance choreography event
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