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Weird Rules of creativity
‘I'm tired of the normal toaster’
Generating 5 ideas by focusing on AEIOU individually, using stimuli methods like photomontage, UX/UI storyboard, prototyping, sketching and CAD to fully create new evolutionary designs. Finalising 1 best idea by considering materials, manufacturing processes, sustainability, trends and market context. Aim to perform skills needed for designing products that are suitable to be manufactured and introduce them to the market.
1. ''Who said only Humans can have their bread being toasted?''
• Analysing the action of making a toast from daily life, questioning what can be improved / in-need to design a unique toaster.
• Researching preferece on ways to eat a toast, discovering people and animals love to eat crumbs, this toaster will definitely helps to make crunchy cube toast in a easier way.
2. ''You won't believe that I have a toaster in my bag.''
• Looking into different country's living environments, knowing there is demand on small electrical appliances which can be used in small houses and camping.
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• Using smart material and collapsible techniques to create a toaster that can reduce its sizes, provides the opportunity to change the toaster from home appliances to mobile appliances.
3. ''Since when Mount Fuji erupts toasts?''
• Inspiring from the gradient of Mount Fuji, linking it to design product with the use of thermochromic pigment.
• High temperature is hard to notice with vision, therefore a visual caution indicator is essential, to prevent accidents from happening, especially in households with children and the elderly.
4.''Whee! Roller Coaster or a Toaster?''
• Wanting to design a 'fun' toaster, changing the form and approach of the 'normal' toaster.
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• Finding the gap in the market nowadays, searching potential functions and aesthetics that can 'stands out' in the existing market.
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• Curvey toaster and toast would bring a new sensation on eating and preparing food.
5.''Don't worry, my toast will come to me by itself.''
• Identifying potential user age group on using the toaster, chose elderly people to focus on. Lack of strength would affect the operation of the toaster with handles with spring.
• Approach the design with an automatic bread loader and slanted platform to release the toast straightly onto the plate.
Who wins the contest?
