Priory Product Design Club

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• 2022-2023 Meeting Log
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• Participate in fun design challenges and activities
• Learn some of the theories and principles that guide great designers
• See case studies to understand how design shaped a critical product or experience

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2022-2023 Meeting Log

• Introduction to the club
• Icebreaker: what is a product that annoys you? Why?
• Design activity: prompts
• Design your ideal phone case
• Design a stationary kit for an architecture student
• Design a branded, functional mug for a gym in barbados
• Design a desk unit for a compact cruise ship cabin
• Invent a collapsible water bottle
• Redesign a ramen bowl (or other food dishware)
• Create a specialized travel case for a dentist (or any other profession)
• Present your ideas for feedback/criticism

• Observe and define — Components 1 and 2 of the Design Thinking Method
• Focus on the user (in this case, you)
• Bring in the personal perspective. Be honest with what frustrates you. By solving these “pain points”, you create a more satisfying end experience.
• Activity
• Make a diagram of your life: interests, hobbies, schoolwork, family, caretaker, job
• Then, break down into “identities”: soccer player, student, etc
• Identify your pain points in that area: frustrations, inconveniences, flaws in the system
• Write yourself a Problem Statement

• Ideation — Component 3 of the Design Thinking Method
• Basic suggestions for ideation
• You want to be totally focused on idea generation instead of analysis (this comes later)
• All ideas solve some problem or fill some need; the final, refined solution does this as well as possible
• Collaboration is useful in ideation — bounce ideas off one another
• Creative/intuitive vs. Clinical refinement
• Complex problem with no previous solutions → intuitive leap
• Existing solutions/ideas → marginal refinement
• The example: mouse vs. paperclip
• With the mouse, the problem is complex: how do we cause movement on-screen in a way that is familiar to people?
• There is a significant intuitive leap between using arrow keys to direct the pointer, and using your hand’s movements
• The Mouse translates hand movements into on-screen movement
• With the paperclip, the problem is simple: how do we hold paper together?
• Many versions of similar products
• The final “Gem Paperclip” was successful, but a marginal increase over the last iterations

• Prototyping — Component 4 of the Design Thinking Method
• Why prototype?
• Test an aspect of your product
• Test without material/cost constraints
• Demonstrate progress to stakeholders/investors
• What can prototyping look like?
• 3D form
• Aesthetic
• Experience
• Digital
• Competition Activity: Prototype solutions to building with sheet materials
• Context: If we want to save materials, we may build using sheet materials. What are the strongest formations of sheet materials we can use to build structures?
• Contest: who can build the tallest tower using paper + other materials

• Practice of the Design Thinking Method through App/UX design
• Observe: what apps do you think have problems? (Most people ended up using Blackbaud, our school portal)
• Define: What problems do you want to solve in these apps through a redesign?
• Ideate: Sketch out ideas on a piece of paper
• Prototype: Create wireframes and create sketches of how a redesign of your app would work.

• Logo Design: Practice of ideation and emotional messaging
• Principles of logo design
• Make your logo long-lasting
• Logo design case studies
• FedEx
• Nike
• Logo design challenge
• Personal
• Business

• Experience design: improving services and events
• Focus on comfort, crowd, costs, waste
• In practice: sponsor and design the boba fundraiser customer experience
• This Friday March 10!
• Assembly line process: club members get more involved
• Home-made: profit margins increase + less plastic waste
• Compostable cups + straws: more controlled, less harmful waste

• Boba sale debrief and improvements
• Focus on crowd, assembly process, environmental impact, profits, and taste
• Successfully improved the sale experience; raised $600 on sale 2 and $1000 sales total.

• E-Commerce
• Guest speaker Matthew Sheng talked about website design, e-commerce backend, and finding a product niche
• Website builders, SEO, payment processing, website design, security, marketing

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