Tuesday, January 3, 2012

deep dive thoughts

The Deep Dive

1. buildings, cars, everything we use was designed in a way for form and functions

2. ideo people are not experts.. But claim to be on the when they process items/ideas which they apply to consumer products.

3. the team is told a problem and the first thing they do is start to research a process for their design.

4. Give two examples of what the team members did during this phase.
             -found people that design and use shopping carts
             -found out what they knew and thought about shopping carts
             -recorded their information they found to refer back to

5. List five rules-of-thumb that ideo employees follow when they share ideas during the brainstorming phase:
                 1)One Conversation at a time.
                 2)Stay focused on the topic
                 3)Encourage wild ideas
                 4)Defer judgement
                 5)Build on other peoples ideas

6. Why should wild ideas be entertained during the brainstorming phase?
if everyone built on the wild idea, it could become a piece of real work.

7. After brainstorming was over, the team decided on only the entertaining ideas and short voted them. What phase of the design process is this called? analyze and select a solution!

8. ideo thinks that Enlightened trial and error will always be a better way of thinking things through than the ideas of one really intelligent high positioned person.

9. after ideas were fewly picked the group was split into four smaller teams. What phase(s) of the design process was each of these groups responsible for? design and development

10. ideo iquireres believe that if people have a fun environmet that they can think better and be more creative.

11. best way to learn is from your mistakes!!

12. thinking ahend and striving for it is good but may need afterwards to go back a little. What phase of the design process would the critique of the four mock-ups come under? refinement

13. between the 4 teams from a onlookers perspective they didnt come to a conclusion yet. ideo people think its okay to fail a couple times in order to proceed

14. What percentage of the entire week’s time did it take to fabricate the final prototype?
1/5 of the time to finalize the prototype.

15. Instead of showering his design team with a tremendous amount of praise, what did the boss require his employees to do with their new design? to go test it at a store.

16. Of all the things that we are surrounded by every day, what has not been placed through the design process? nature

Conclusion

1. What did you find to be the most impressive part of the team’s effort? it was cool they werent satisfied with average that they wanted the best even if it was harder

2. What advantages are there to having a design team with members that have non-engineering backgrounds? they dont keep back thoughts, they seek into anything and everything.

3. There was a point in the process where a self-appointed group of adults stepped up, stopped the ideas, and redirected the group to break up into teams. Why was this done? They thought the team wasnt being focused so the refocused them on the deep dive project.

4. At the end of the video, Dave Kelly states, “Look around. The only things that are not designed are the things we find in nature.” Can you think of anything that would contradict this statement? nothing comes to mind, they might interchange different variations of things that grow but not something that probably hasnt been done before.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

cardboard canoe challenge

Cardboard Canoe Challenge

Total Achievements: 12 achievements accomplished
 
Problem-
  1. roll up cardboard
  2. make cardboard rolls large for more buoyancy
  3. more surface area
  4. double layer perpendicular rolls
  5. go to recycling depots to get free cardboard and have an ample supply
  6. duct tape individual rolls to make for water tightness
  7. inspect rolls for clean and smooth taping
  8. consider testing raft in outside pool to see if raft/boat will withstand water and float
  9. build boat to common house design, square bottom and triangular top
  10. build boat with thin walls to reduce supplies
  11. let raft walls be open so water can freely go in and out of raft
  12. duct tape every part of raft
  13. use outriggers for balance and buoyancy
  14. narrow body for speed through water
  15. duct tape inside of boat
  16. make duct tape rope to pull boat/raft
  17. duct tape paddles
  18. inject helium for more buoyancy (if air tight)
  19. V shaped bottom
  20. flat bottom
  21. make outrigger arms out of strong cardboard so they don't bend under pressure
  22. make outriggers bigger than actually boat so they keep the boat out of water more easily
  23. make outrigger design hull deep so that it can hold more weight and put less stress on outriggers
  24. put outriggers close to boat to ensure they get best results
  25. put outriggers directly on boat
  26. put outrigger at 3/4 height of boat wall so that it helps keep the boat from dipping to much into the water
  27. use outriggers on flat bottom design
  28. use weekends to gainmore building time
  29. learn what worked and didn't work from the previous cardboard canoe challenge
  30. come up with as many variations to have the best idea of what might work and possibly combine some ideas
  31. treat every idea as if it is plausible
  32. study some of the best light boat designs used in the commercial industry
  33. found out what duct tape works best in water (some have different types of water resistanceand stickiness
  34. consider pushing rather than pulling raft or boat
Align Left

 Constraints- only cardboard and duct tape
                    - 3in" sidewall
                   
  Sketch Ideas


























Build it-




  • The Early Bird Gets the Achievement
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Test Achievements-
  • Balance
 
-longest

Reflection Achievements-

  • Feed Back
- the duct tape rope helped us get across the pool
-it floated

-neater taping, water doesnt leak in-probably needed more/bigger rolls of cardboard
 
-shouldve checked better for places where water coulve possibly leaked in

  • Redesign-
-If we did another race we would probably go with the outriggers design that I had shown in one of my sketches and worked from that idea with the knowledge of what happened on this race.
  • Make Your Own Achievement-
Submarine- Submerge your boat completely under water and bring it back up, if its still able to float then you have completed the challenge.



Thursday, September 29, 2011

design/build: we brainstorm ideas, come up with different ideas/solutions, test those ideas/solutions, see which ones work best, decide which one we want to use, design it, remake different solutions, test it, modify it, test it, and compete with it(: