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Class: Industrial Design I
Year: 2017
Tags: [product design]
Tools: wood, magnets

A simple and playful product for college campus coffee shops, making their customers’ experiences interacting with personal digital devices more enjoyable.

The Prompt

Authentic Observation: choose a place on campus, sit down for a while and observe people’s behaviors. Identity problems that could be improved by a designed product.

The Place and Observation

I chose a coffee shop on campus as my place of observation. I sat there for an afternoon, observing people, making notes of their behaviors.

The Problem

I decided to focus on people’s bad postures when interacting with digital devices as my identified problem Because many people in the coffee shop were interacting with their digital devices for a long period of time. A product in the coffee shop that could help them use their devices in better postures would greatly improve their experiences.

Storyboard

Prototyping

Interactions

There are many ways for Blocked to be stacked in. The user can play around with the blocks and find a composition that is suitable for them.

Blocked is helpful for adjusting postures in many different interactions, whether it is drawing on a tablet, watching a video on a phone, browsing the internet or video-chatting…

Magnets are embedded in each block to make the stacked composition stable.