Frankie Tsz Hin Ho | UNSW Industrial Design
Monday, October 15, 2012
PSS feedback
Siting Lin
http://linst90.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/often-we-go-to-shops-tobuy-things-we.html#comment-form
Chieh Min Lee
http://leechiehmin.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/rebat-battery-recycling-pss.html?showComment=1350297064407#c5569866865173124417
Huan Xie
http://z3326626.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/pss-design-trip-planner-rental-system.html
Benjamin Chan
http://bjcyc.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/pss-project-ger-glass-reverse-vending.html?showComment=1350297589273#c7595058973662441563
Yuliang Gu
http://guyuliang1990.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/i-want-as-for-from-in-he-amount.html?showComment=1350298127377#c259484178537893727
Sunday, October 14, 2012
GPS Bike System Rationale
The Product
Services System I design is a GPS bike station located in all getaway accommodation
locations throughout Australia. The intended markets are families with
children, young couples, teenage groups, and backpackers.
For the
first three targeted market, they usually go on accommodation during the long
weekends, any other holidays such as semester break, school term break, or
taking days off work. Their methods of travelling to the location are usually
by driving or public transports. However, both these methods would produce a
lot of pollution and it is best to minimise the use of these products and
services. Also due to the cost of public transport and petrol are rapidly increasing,
there is a need to have a cheaper way to travel.
Therefore,
I introduced the GPS bike station, which it can produce zero carbon dioxide,
and it is good exercise. So the GPS bike station would be located outside the
visitor centre of all accommodation hot spots, such as Kiama, Blue Mountains,
Byron Bay etc. which is very close if not, located to the city centre. These accommodation
spots are small, which makes it easy to locate the stations, but there are more
places to these area which people can explore. Therefore, having a bike would
really help them explore these areas, and most the time, these places are in
the mountains or close to cliffs where driving is not permitted. And it would
take a very long walk to go to these places, which is very hard for families
with children to go. And riding a bike has the benefit of interacting with the
environment and gain a much deeper feeling with the surrounding, because if the
people are driving in a car, they cannot stop anytime, anywhere to have a look
at places. Whereas a bike can stop at any time, and the user can interact with
the environment and not miss any part of the fun. There should not be much
concern with the weather, as people would go on accommodation on nice weather
and would not go out in a rainy day in the first place. The built in GPS is
charged using solar power panel at the station, as well as the generator in the
bike.
So the user
can go online to reserve for a bike by entering their details, as well as go
straight to the visitor centre and fill in credit card details, the user is
then allocated a bike number and the user needs to unplug the bike to unlock
it, and as the user ride the bike, the kinetic energy will be converted into
charging power for the GPS, making the GPS last longer. Once the user is done
with the bike, they return the bike back to the station and plug the charger
back on, and it will notify the visitor centre, and charge the user by how long
they used the bike. The GPS helps the user to go where they want, as well as
for the visitor centre to locate the bike if the bike is lost or accidents
happened.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Recharagable bike trip planner
1) Family goes for a long weekend trip. (eg. Kangaroo Valley, Barossa Valley, Byron Bay, etc.) which they are popular long weekend trip and cycling location.
2) Rechargeable bike station are located in the city center of all trip location. (eg. Kangaroo Valley, Barossa Valley, Byron Bay, etc.) It has solar panel on the roof to cover the bikes.
3) Each bike has a built in GPS, and it is charged by the solar panel when it was parked at the station.
4) User can rent a bike that contains two seats, they can go on their field trip. Which can reduce driving or taxi usage, hence less CO2 emission. The bike contains rechargeable batteries to charge the GPS, it converts the kinetic energy to the battery and can be used for the GPS, meaning it charges up the battery as the user rides the bike, and it can be used if the energy from solar panel runs out.
5) After user has finished using it for the day, they return it the station and it charges using the solar panel as it is returned. (The bike contains a built in GPS, therefore, the station can track on the location of the bike if it is lost or not returned.)
2) Rechargeable bike station are located in the city center of all trip location. (eg. Kangaroo Valley, Barossa Valley, Byron Bay, etc.) It has solar panel on the roof to cover the bikes.
3) Each bike has a built in GPS, and it is charged by the solar panel when it was parked at the station.
4) User can rent a bike that contains two seats, they can go on their field trip. Which can reduce driving or taxi usage, hence less CO2 emission. The bike contains rechargeable batteries to charge the GPS, it converts the kinetic energy to the battery and can be used for the GPS, meaning it charges up the battery as the user rides the bike, and it can be used if the energy from solar panel runs out.
5) After user has finished using it for the day, they return it the station and it charges using the solar panel as it is returned. (The bike contains a built in GPS, therefore, the station can track on the location of the bike if it is lost or not returned.)
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Video Reflection C
Who killed the electric car
The Video “Who Killed the Electric Car?” is a video that
gives a lot of information to industrial designers, because as electric car has
actually been invented for a long time, but yet it has yet to be used widely by
everyone. And this video explains the limitation of electric car, which allows
us industrial designers to explore ways to redesign a way to make them more
common to the general public. And as an industrial designer, I realize it is
very important to us to watch this video, because as a driver myself, I realize
the petrol price has risen dramatically over the past few years, and that is
due to the reason that there is a lack of resources. And electric car is definitely
one of the ways to solve the problem.
One of the messages I got from watching this video is the
importance of renewable energy, and the importance of us giving an act now. It
is actually quite a frustrating video to watch, because the way to solve the
environment issues has been solved, but yet no one really paid much attention
to it. For example, the EV1 should have been a biggest achievement that more
people should know about, and I only realize the existence of it after watching
this video. And I would wish to live in a world where 0 carbon emissions is
possible. Therefore, electric car is one of the solution for me to reach the
goal.
“Who killed the electric car?” explores the future of
vehicles, and technologies, which I have never thought of before watching the
video. Technologies such as hydrogen vehicles, which gets me to rethink the
role as an industrial designer. Because my original thinking of being an
industrial designer is to make things look better and improve the appearance of
everything in the world, hence making it a better and more comfortable place to
live in. However, after watching the video, being an industrial designer is not
all just about making things look nice, there are a lot more to it. Which is
the environmental side, we all live on the same planet, and industrial
designers has the responsibility to make things look better and more
environmental friendly. And I would like to focus more on the topic electric
car, and figure out a way to make this product work, and more commonly used,
because as designer, it is a real disappointment to have designed a great
product and no one is giving them credit.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Peer Comment
http://linst90.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/cereal-is-healthy-choicefor-breakfast.html?showComment=1347281211065#c8540755175189084694
http://pluwia.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/cormack-submission.html
http://lilynguyen1506.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/project-1-legs11-ecoyum-ready-to-feed.html?showComment=1347282043207#c7178491439856433018
http://stellaanddesign.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/coco-cocoa-powder-final-presentation.html
http://ides3b.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/project-one-cormack-packaging.html?showComment=1347283003192#c8432982258211342512
Project 1: Cormack
Product:
Vitamin tablets container
Name:
Vitaball Mammal Head
Target market:
Aged 3 to 8
Tablet shapes:
Sphere
Refillable:
Yes
Rationale:
The Vitaball Mammal Head is a vitamin tablet container designed for children
between 3 to 8 years old, and the reason for the vitamin tablets containers to
be redesigned is because of children’s lack of self control, which leads to 5
main design problem of their current design.
- · Spilling
- · Lack of attractiveness
- · Risk of scratching hands
- · Grip hard to open
- · Overdose
And the
Vitaball Mammal Head container can solve the problems, the main feature of the
container is the push head design, and that can solve the problem of spilling
and children do not have to put their hands in the container and can avoid the
risk of scratching hand, and the mouth will open as the head is pushed down,
though the use of bone pieces, the mouth will pull back and shut itself.
Also, the
animal figure can attract children to take the tablet, however, it attract the
children to take the tablet, and the children lock can allow the parents to
lock the container and avoid children from overdose of tablets.
The
Internal package has a pattern that allows the sphere tablets to roll to the
mouth part, and a tablet will roll out by pressing the eye, also, the change in
eye indicate the state the package is at, and interact with the children.
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