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Hello fellow designers, 

Here is some things that have been missing from my blog. Over the break I will be catching up on project two and three since there are not too many posts from those. 

Re-Design Project Two

Original Sponge Wand

megan McBrides's prototype

Project Brief:

As a group we chose the bad design of a Sponge Wand to re-design. Each member chose three objects that they personally thought were not designed well and together we narrowed down. I picked and sketched three items; a closet space hanger, mascara, and a dish wand. As a group we made a mind map about the sponge wand to allow ideas, pros, cons, verbs, problems and solutions for re-designing the object to be visually manifested on a large sheet of paper. Then we pinned it on the wall to present our founding to the class to further analysis the sponge wand. 

We were required to document every step by capturing in with a camera. We made a list of materials to bring for constructing prototypes, and divided them up. Then we gave each person a job to complete and handle through out the re-design process. I got in charge of making the powerpoint. 

The second day of work essentially was creating three new prototypes of our future product. They each incorporated elements of the sponge wand that worked well and innovative parts to solve of a problem from the original wand. Three thumbnails sketches for the poster were also sketched for the redesign of a sponge wand. Next, a storyboard for our groups process was sketched, colored and went into the making of the powerpoint. We wrote a concept statement for the project and evenly distributed the research. The research was conducted through a series of interviews regarding how well the original sponge wand worked and what was positive and negative about each prototype. We were asked to have all the preliminary parts due for a class critique on October eighth. 

We printed out six power point slides, three poster ideas, and refined prototypes. We did research on companies who design dish wands and watch commercials advertising the good design of products. We posted on our blog this process along with others. A more refined version of the story board was drawn for the final presentation. The final prototype was created using minimal design and material with out leaving any essential parts of the function to the dish wand which was reduced to a hand held, easy to story, refillable, and cleanable pod to fits in the hand. 

-RCJH