Week 1.

Intro

Our team is Group 08 and consists of Iain Sams, Jordan East, Rafe Delaney and myself. We have worked together before so we do not yet know each others strengths in design. Currently we haven't assigned any roles but this can be done after experimentation with tasks and workshops.

Team members

Iain Sams: http://design-interaktion.blogspot.com.au/

Jordan East: http://jordaneastdesign.blogspot.com.au/

Monique Sutherland: http://moniquesutherland.blogspot.com.au/

Rafe Delaney: http://www.rafedelaneydesign.blogspot.com.au/

Readings

The Inmates Are Running 

This was an interesting text to read and I gained a few key principles from the reading. Products need to be designed for all people and not for a specific persona or user group. Current and future Industrial Design depends upon the needs of the user being taken into account within every aspect of the design process.

Workshop

In this weeks workshop the group explored input and output behaviour and scenarios. We started brainstorming action and words that represent input, and words that represent output.
We were told that the ideas could be blue sky, yet all the ideas we came up with were unrealistic to represent as a model. So we thought about what problems we faced in everyday life as well as others and we came up with many more ideas. Some ideas we came up with were glasses that give visual feedback to light, an elderly device worn around he neck to detect when a person has fallen over, a baby monitor that detects when a baby is crawling out of the crib and gives feedback to  a guardian and a device that detects when milk is getting low in the fridge and signals you to buy more.

We decided to make models of the last two devices. The baby monitor would use a motion sensor set at a certain level in the crib and when the baby climbs out of the crib it activates the motion sensor and tells the guardian through light and sound. The milk device would use a pressure sensor underneath the milk bottle and would be pre programmed to recognise different pressures to show different levels in the milk bottle. When the milk gets low the pressure sensor would activate and give feedback to the user with light and sound or via a mobile app.