My Personal Bubble

 I guess I should start by saying I like my job at Hasbro And have been excited to work on a few interesting projects. There now that that is out of the way....

Look how small my desk is!

Measurements: 1 foot, Cintique, 1 foot

I am not in a small cube, I am at the end of the hall between two cubes. 

And the kicker is the office next to me is for a guy who works from home, he has been here like 3 times in my 5 weeks. 

I challenge you to show me a smaller working space.

On the plus side, yes those two nerf swords are mine.

Design Challenges

Hey Guys,

I just found some interesting design challenges through Unicef. check them out.

Thank God Uconn lost

I must preface this by saying I love the Bearcats and the Badgers and through them, love the Big East and the Big Ten. But I hate Hasheem Thabeet. He is a tall, Annoying wimp.
In his article this week Rick Reilly, A man who I consider to be the best, most funny, most interesting sportswriter on the face of the planet, sings the praises of Thabeet. check it
All he can seem to come up with is that Thabeet returns phone calls, smiles alot, and has at many times in his life has run from trouble, while being overly emotional. Shame on you rick, you are better than that, I expect more.

Anyway, thank you MSU. No moreUconn, No more Thabeet. Now lets finish the job and bring the national title to the Big Ten. Represent

Niagara Falls

So the drive from Detroit to Providence is 734 miles but One of the most awesome natural monument is on the way, Niagara Falls. Look

Reflections on the quarter

So here we are at the end of another quarter of school. It never feels like ten weeks at the end, and it always feels like eternity at the beginning.
First let me get the orders of business out of the way:
My final storyboards can be found here
my final tea kettle can be found here
and my process book can be found here

I have enjoyed this quarter very much and I feel like I have improved, which is the point, I think.
As for my goals none were archived totally but all were at least started. As far as design process I feel I have found some quick techniques for expressing my designs and I understand better what I want to know at the onset of my work.
I purchased but have not started to go through the tutorials on solid works.
I have sketched but not nearly enough, no excuses, I must be more vigilant.

Hopefully over my next co-op quarter I can continue to work on these things and improve. I will keep on posting periodically to keep you up to date.

Innovation

Innovation is a catchword like ergonomic or sustainable. Everyone wants to be associated with innovation; and everyone has a different definition for it.
I believe that the technical definition goes something like this: the incremental improvement of a product, idea, or process such that it becomes more valuable.
Often I think people allow invention and innovation to be interchangeable, but they are not. The Wright brothers invented the airplane. It did not exist before they created it. Ford invented the assembly line, but he innovated manual labor processes. The car existed before ford built the model T, but it was made affordable by mass production and the assembly line.
I am reminded of the advertising campaign of BASF; we dont make (product x), we make it (faster, stronger, smaller). that is innovation. And it really is what the design process is all about. We research so we know what exists already and then we create new things often based on the creations of the past. We innovate.

Leaves water and heat

Hey Guys,
This is my second evolution of my tea kettle design. I added the metal accent on bottom to make it a better heating surface and the one on the handle is to stop the handle from getting too hot. There is a rubber grip on the underside of the handle but it is a bit hard to see because it is tone on tone. I wanted to do as little as possible to take away from the form.
What do you think? any suggestions for improvements?

story board

these are my storyboards for the procedure involved with my spinal tap device.

the first is here second one is here.

usb.

Hi Guys,

So I forgot to post this file on Thursday but here is my usb project.

and a sweet Daniel Simonnet rendering

Human Factors Vs. Usibility:
terms we use without understanding them

I am in an alternative human factors class this quarter and it is taught by Mary beth Privitera in the BME department. She writes human factors regulations for the FDA so...
Any way she has been assigning some rather interesting readings. In them I have learned some useful strategies for developing a product.

A good anthropometric target is to design to fit (the hand sizes) between the 5% woman and the 95% man.

The most work can be done from the nutral position.

no more than 30% of maximum force should be exerted for more than 2 min.

In the power grip the wider the diameter of the handle is, the more force can be exerted...up to the point where the hand can no longer grasp.

power grip handles should taper due to the natural tapering of finger size.

you need at least 12 results to start compiling quantitative statistics.


All this to say that I think facts like these could be helpful in the design process .