Week 8: Nailing down our idea: adjusting to the SCENARIO and COMMERICIALISATION
Okay! So after much deliberation from the original candle burning idea, we've decided to tweak the idea to suit it more towards the scenario as well as commericialistion.There were LOTS of issues with the wax- dripping, maitenance, cleaning, and its basic perishability. As well as issues surrounding the candle. Having a standard candle that they buy to 'refill' the product would be ideal so originally we thought of a tea light candle, as these are cheap and accessible. However, this takes away the dynamic of the bobbing up and down. So we had quite a pickle on our hands!
As well as these issues, after much deliberation we decided to stick with our ORIGINAL SCENARIO of people working together in a collaborative effort working towards a common goal. However, this has, in turn, changed our product dramatically.
We decided that the SCENARIO, COMMERCIALISATION and the use of MOVEMENT, BALANCE and PRESENCE was essentially our focus for this product. Becuase of this, many changes were made to the product.
After much brain storming with my team members, we came across this idea:
"Christmas Candle Pyramids"
This is our basic idea, using tea light candles to generate the heat to move the fan. This indicates that the more people who are "logged on" the faster the fan will move, which is representative of everyones collective efforts. We would also like to look into the spinning of the fan, and possibly having it rather UNBALANCED when there are only two or three people working in a group, and then BALANCED when all group members are working on the project. This product is aimed to create INSPIRATION and MODIVATION when people need to work on a project together, but cannot physically be in the same space. This, therefore, creates a PRESENCE of "yes, I'm working on the project".
Below you will find some rough sketches of the form for the changed product, as well as general mind map and brain storming sketches of our NEWLY INFORMED product:
Now onto model making! We're planning to meet up outside of uni on Saturday to play around with a model for our design freeze next week, until then!
As well as these issues, after much deliberation we decided to stick with our ORIGINAL SCENARIO of people working together in a collaborative effort working towards a common goal. However, this has, in turn, changed our product dramatically.
We decided that the SCENARIO, COMMERCIALISATION and the use of MOVEMENT, BALANCE and PRESENCE was essentially our focus for this product. Becuase of this, many changes were made to the product.
After much brain storming with my team members, we came across this idea:
"Christmas Candle Pyramids"
This is our basic idea, using tea light candles to generate the heat to move the fan. This indicates that the more people who are "logged on" the faster the fan will move, which is representative of everyones collective efforts. We would also like to look into the spinning of the fan, and possibly having it rather UNBALANCED when there are only two or three people working in a group, and then BALANCED when all group members are working on the project. This product is aimed to create INSPIRATION and MODIVATION when people need to work on a project together, but cannot physically be in the same space. This, therefore, creates a PRESENCE of "yes, I'm working on the project".
Below you will find some rough sketches of the form for the changed product, as well as general mind map and brain storming sketches of our NEWLY INFORMED product:
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