Activity 1.4 Product Improvement
For Activity 1.4, we were required to take a product that already exists and to adapt and redesign in a new and inventive way. My partner and I used both the coffee mug and the juice box to make a new invention called the Icethermos that can chill your drink, flavor your drink and keep it warm. Through this Activity 1.4 we learned how to use the brainstorming process and to organize your ideas and properly interpret so that others can understand them. Below is pictures of my brainstorming process with the Icethermos, the conclusion questions for this activity and the notes I took for this activity.
Conclusion Questions
1. What factors must be considered when changing or enhancing a design?
The factors that must be considered when changing or enhancing a design is whether or not a design is logical and/or possible, how much it would cost and how the invention that you're designing would work.
2. Why is it important to document the brainstorming process?
It is important to document the brainstorming process in order to prove that the product is yours and in order to review the process you went through to develop the product that you're working on.
3. What is the purpose of sketching your ideas?
The purpose of sketching my ideas is to see how the product would fit together and to see where all the pieces of the product would go.
The factors that must be considered when changing or enhancing a design is whether or not a design is logical and/or possible, how much it would cost and how the invention that you're designing would work.
2. Why is it important to document the brainstorming process?
It is important to document the brainstorming process in order to prove that the product is yours and in order to review the process you went through to develop the product that you're working on.
3. What is the purpose of sketching your ideas?
The purpose of sketching my ideas is to see how the product would fit together and to see where all the pieces of the product would go.