Sunday, March 6, 2011

Ideation

Shape Borrowing
Shape borrowing is using common shapes like Rectangle, Triangle, Circles into our design. Although this shapes are pretty simple and looks childish to most people. By incorporating this shapes into our current designs, they don't look childish and they look pleasing for the eyes.

S.C.A.M.P.E.R.
S.C.A.M.P.E.R. can let our creativity juices flow and could make us think of how can we improve our product. We can improve our product by using S.C.A.M.P.E.R. . We can enhance it in its functions; Making it simpler for the user to use it. We can also enhance it in design by using the shape borrowing method, or replacing it.


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Design Appreciation

2 Good design products
It is good design as it is able to blend the coffee and the design enables the user to grip the coffee maker firmly and pour the coffee into the cup



Source
It is good design as it is light, convenient and the design is eye-catching

2 Badly-designed products

The design is bad due to the material of the shoes. On a rainy day, the shoes will cause the user to slip and fall and it could get stuck in the gap of the escalators.


The buttons are small and they are difficult for an average user to press the button and the user might often press the wrong button due to the size of it