During the class on Wednesday, we were grateful that we can have our guest speaker to provide us more inspiration and advice related to the 3D-printing. I learned about that 3D-printing can actually benefit lots of fields, such as health products, service dogs, daily-life products, and physical ability. It’s really inspiring that people are utilizing this technique to make other people’s life different.
With the guide from our TA, we posted some of the features related to people that we interviewed last week. Each team shared what they’ve done so far, and I was inspired by some of my peers’ great ideas.
After we finished posting our insights, we found three big categories ” life & career”, “future aspiration”, and “major difficulties” based on the response from our interviewees.
This weekend, we conduct an interview with our mentor Ryan and two of his friends Avery and Zain. They shared their life experience, some difficulties that they’re facing, and expectations of our product. Based on their response, I would say different people have different level of disabilities, and it’s really hard to find a way to benefit all of them. Our project is to help them multitask in their daily life. However, based on the advice from Ryan, Zain, and Avery, I think we might need to consider making our goals more specific and realistic, since there are lots of different ways to define “multitask”. It might be more feasible for us to pursue in one goal – making something that can make certain group of people’s life more convenient, even though a small product focusing on one specific area would work.
I would say we need to talk more about the goals of our project this week and try to finalize a clear and feasible direction. We might need to talk more about it with the professor and our TAs. We should consider about their thoughts and advice towards our project. After interviewing 4 people, I found it’s really important for us to help them, and I really want to. I just want to make sure that we can actually make something that’s useful for certain people by the end of this semester.
Hi Eric,
It looks like your team did a great job getting in contact with your mentor. Having three interviews under your belt probably gave you guys great material for the brainstorm we did in class. Realizing you guys should make your goals more specific and realistic will simplify the next steps you have in this project. As you said when making something that can make a select group of user’s lives easier can just be a small product that will focus on one specific area.
Hi Eric,
I think your reflection is insightful as usual. I had a lot of the similar takeaways from you. I too was very impressed on how 3D printing can be implemented in a wide variety of fields and benefit millions of lives. I am particular interested in the last part of your reflection where you met with your mentor. I am interested for your group to narrow down your ideas and eventually come up with a product.
Hello Eric,
I agree that there are so many people with different levels of disabilities that it is hard for us to benefit all of them. This is why as an industrial designer, we tend to focus on one task instead of creating a product that does multitask. I like how you guys are shifting down and focusing on one goal. I personally will start conducting empathic models from your research and ideate some ideas based on the need of the users.