Floor Lamp
Class: ID 2024 | Instructor: Lisa Marks
The project scope was to design a floor lamp that has physical beauty when it is off and celebrates the beauty of light when it is on. For this first project, I made a decorative outdoor lamp. It would be in a park that would have running trails and nature surrounding it. Because of its surface, It would reflect its surroundings and not disrupt its environment during the daytime while reflecting a beautiful light pattern during the night. I decided to have a strong use of repetition in order to keep simplicity and mimic repetition that often happens in nature. I learned some new metalworking skills, used a water jet machine, and meticulously sanded/polished to achieve the desired product. I really enjoyed the process of ideating and constructing my lamp.
MOUZ
Class: ID 2024 | Instructor: Lisa Marks
The project scope was to design a consumer wellness product for 2025 that appeals to college students and encourages usage to enhance human wellness. MOUZ is a personal sanitization device mainly targeting students who want to clean surfaces like screens and electronics that may be harder to sanitize using traditional methods. MOUZ safely uses UV-Light that is not exposed like sanitization wands. It is easy-to-use and portable unlike "lock-box" sanitizing devices. It automatically will move around the surface of what you want to clean by utilizing sensors that will help decide the path MOUZ will go on to sanitize. Due to COVID-19, we were not able to make a physical model of our products, but I still enjoyed the design process and making my product digitally. In addition, I learned a lot from having to go through the obstacles and struggles presented during this time and being able to design something that is very current with COVID-19 and be able to think about how it can be effective in the future was challenging but also very insightful.
Stroll Patrol
Group Members: Andrea Antrim, Justin Pisarski, Hannah Grove
Class: ID 2510 | Instructor: Wei Wang, Yaling Liu, Sang-Won Leigh
Applying what we learned from our Intro to Smart Product Design class, My team decided to design an interactive smart product for college students who may encounter situations when they are walking alone, walking at night, and/or feel unsafe. Stroll Patrol is a clip-on device that the user can attach to their backpack that uses a camera, vibration motor, PIR motion sensor, and proximity sensor to detect when someone is following them or is too close. The user may set their preferred settings. When Stroll Patrol is set off, it will vibrate while sending a phone notification to allow the user to check the camera, notify police, or ignore when there is a false alarm. I learned a lot from this project because of the challenges of thinking about the user background and user scenario and how those things interact with the "smart" aspects of our design. I enjoyed it as well because I got to work more on my CAD skills when exploring the different clip-on options and product details.