week 3

week2

Feedback from Mar: 

Changing closure design to make whole product using same material, easy to recycle. 

Make bottle for small concentrate detergent, the normal detergent liquid isn't sustainable, because when it will transport a lot of water.

Feedback from Daming:

The bottle is not comfortable when holding the sink part，but emboss part is comfortable to grab.

reverse the curve of whole bottle.

Feedback from Cai Min:

 the size of bottle should be consider, the size of the bottle should be suit both male and female. Design should be unisex.

Aim of this week: 

Finish solidworks.

working on all the problem i got.

Try to do same labeling if have time.

Video Reflection

—Greenfly: Design greener products

Greenfly is a great website to allows us to predict and test our design concept whether is sustainable, eco friendly, etc. This website become a powerful tool of access of environment consideration and life cycle data. 1) It makes us redesign concept if the result isn’t come out well. 2) As a good designer, we should consider a lot more about protect environment instead of thinking how to make a fancy look.

3) This video told me there are some considerations I have to think, like Transport, Distribution, water use, energy use…

 ——Autodesk: Whole system and lifecycle thinking

The ways to design the product more sustainable is to think the picture more broadly and try looking the problem form other perspective views.

Every product will impact manufacturing, distributing, use and disposal, and through this process the product may produce gas emissions, water pollution, air pollution.

The first step is to more deeply define the problem by looking at the whole system,

And second, to optimize for environmental performance we need to consider impacts through the entire lifecycle of product or service.

Thirdly we should look for solutions by looking again at the whole system.

And the end carefully makes a choice and repeat and repeat.

This video bring us the better way of thinking and to develop a better design solution, the sustainable design is not save some waste by a piece of material is look the whole cycle to reduce the waste of it.

——Autodesk: Improving product life time

Design sustainably means getting the most use out of the materials and energy that go into your product. The keyword is “extending useful life”.

There many ways to maximize the product lifetime, like make it more durable or easier to repair or upgrades, design it easier to recyclable. Try to decrease the disposal part to have a much longer life.

There are three kind of the product to design, short lifetime product, long lifetime product and the product in between. There have different design principles. Recycle and compost for short lifetime product, durable for long lifetime product and repair and upgrade for the product in between. The best design will incorporate all of them.

——Light weighting

Product made with less material is a great helpful of reduce disposal part. A lot of product can be made lightweight to help the environment. Innovation design is really great part to reduce the weight of the product.

“Every pound of material you save in your product saves much more upstream”

But there are different situation for designer using lightweight strategy, materials for waster bigger part, if there is an energy power source, when you understand your product function and form.

——Green materials selection

A good green material is abundant and non-toxic which doesn’t require a lot of energy and other resources, good end of products…

To make a sustainable design, designers should pay a lot of attention on material choose, the origin of the material and manufacture making. As a designer, we should always using the more efficiently and green materials.

——Energy efficient design

As a designer, we need to understand the sources of energy, and know energy converted.

When we using energy, we have to think about where is the energy come from or how they come. For example, during the process of electrical from coal, it is not efficiency at all. When the electricity came to our home, the energy already waste 84% efficient.

To be sustainable, we need choose an energy source that is much lower impact like solar plant.

On the daily life, we can avoid a lot of unnecessary energy waste.

As a designer, we can use energy more effectively by understanding energy systems to make our design fit in.

Research of Visual Impairment

Weekly consultation reflection

• Feedback from Mar: Working on the seriously vision impaired people, not moderate vision             impairment. work on concept 3 do more research on target market life situation and experiment.
• Feedback from kevin:  should be able to determine the amount of liquid within the retainer. Good understanding on overall form and the type of product it is.
• Feedback from Min: Try to redesign the lip to make it easier to open, thinking about the what happen when the liquid is nearly run out, try to prevent the unnecessary waste.

• work on this week
• • research more existing package, and what target market use in their daily life.
  • work on the closure and shape reference of standard.
  • think about the possibility of more functional of one packaging.