After one week of spring break, the class reassembled on the following Tuesday night to kick-off the Make-a-Thon event happening next week. Unfortunately, I have class during that time every week, so I was not able to attend the event. However, that does not mean that I simply let the week go to waste as I continued to brainstorm on our project.
My twin brother studies art in New York and is an enthusiast of comic book and Japanese manga. During a recent chat with him, I notice that many of the action figures cannot stand by itself as the makeup of the figures has weight emphasized in other areas which make the figures impossible to stand on its own. To overcome this issue, many of the figures either come with a stand or a foot peg to not only increase the surface area but help with the support.
I think that this idea can be apply to our design as we are looking to help prosthetics yoga enthusiast with support especially during frontal plane positions. I have yet to pitch this idea to my team and I cannot wait to hear about their feedback.
Hi Ruei,
This connection that you made between your brother’s action figures and what your team is working on for the Make-a-thon is really cool. When I was little I noticed this was a problem when I played with my dolls. It would be tricky to figure out the best way to distribute the weight to suit multiple yoga poses. I think it might be helpful to look into finding ways for the yoga mat to provide some support. I am excited to see what your team comes up with.
Hi Ruei,
I think that it’s really cool that you took inspiration from manga action figures to integrate into your product ideas. Truly, it is often from unexpected life experiences and conversations that we have where we find inspiration to help us out with innovating! Additionally, I really like that idea of you turning a concept that was originally used to make products that are pure entertainment into something that can be used to help others with their daily living activities.
Hey! This is super interesting that you were able to transfer this design into what you’re working on. I think getting inspiration where you least aspect is the beauty of the design process. I am interested to see how you can incorporate your findings in a prototype.