Metal Works
A description of the project and the works presented.
Design Process
Design Brief
In this quarter we are to interview a client (may that be anyone, but not a batchmate) and incorporate their answers with the product to be made.
Design Requirement
The device should be made out of metal. Standards are needed to be set depending on the client’s questions.
Constrainsts and Considerations
| Consrtraints | Considerations |
| Only 3 weeks is given to finish the product. | Any amount of metal can be used. |
| It should be functional. | No limit in size |
| It should me made out of metal. | |
| It shouldn’t be too ambitious (considering the time limit). | |
| Interview should not directly imply what the client’s problems are. |
Evaluation Criteria
- Is the product a convenience to the client?
- Does it follow most of the requirements given?
- Are there any other factors aside from metal included in the product?
Questions (Initial)
- When are your free days?
- What do you do on most days when you’re not busy? What hobby?
- Do you plan to take it seriously or is it simply a hobby?
- How do you feel being able to do it?
- How long does it normally take for you to do it?
- Are there times when you are not able to do it?
- How do you feel when you are not able to do your hobby?
- Does your hobby require much movement?
Questions (Improv)
The Interview
The following is a transcript of how the interview went between one of our groupmates and our client.
Q: First of all, are there days ba po na wala ka pong ginagawa? Like, mga free days po? May mga days ka po na wala ka dito sa Pisay?
A: Linggo lang, beh. Monday to Saturday, nandito kami sa Pisay.
Q: Ano pong ginagawa niyo tuwing Linggo?
A: Ano beh, naglalaba, namamlantsa, naglilinis ng bahay.
Q:May mga kasama ka po sa bahay?
A: Meron beh, mga anak ko.
Q: May hobbies ba po kayo? May ginagawa ba po kayo for fun?
A: Minsan beh, pumupunta kami sa ilog.
Q: Ano pong ginagawa niyo?
A: Naliligo. Minsan pumupunta kami sa simbahan.
Q: Sino ba ang mga kasama mo po pagginagawa mo ang mga ito o mag-isa ka lang po?
A: Mga anak ko po. Pero yung pagplantsa, paglaba, pag ano sa ano, ako lang. May ginagawa din kasi sila.
Q: Are there any other things you would want to do kung meron ka pang time?
A: Minsan kasi pag Linggo, may pinapasukan na rin akong trabaho, naglilinis din ako ng bahay.
Q: Saan po?
A: Dun sa lugar din namin, sa Lagonoy. Naglilinis ako pag wala na akong ginagawa.
Q: Are there any other things to do you would want to do, if you had the time?
A: Minsan po kasi may pinapasukan akong trabaho pag Linggo. Naglilinis ako ng bahay dun sa amin.
Q: Minsan nasestress o napapagod ka rin po, diba? Nakakarelax ba po ang mga ginagawa niyo, halimbawa ang pagsisimba at pagliligo sa ilog?
A: Nagpapahinga rin po ako, beh. Nakakarelax naman po beh ang pagsisimba.
Q: Malayo ba po ang bahay niyo?
A: Malayo pa po kami beh, nasa Lagonoy kami.
Q: Paano ka po pumupunta dito?
A: Nagt-tricycle ako, tapos sakay ako sa bus, tapos pag nasa Goa na, tricy ulit. Umaalis kami ng bahay mga quarter to six, tapos nandito na ako 6:15.
Q: Nagtatrabaho ba ang mga anak mo dito?
A: Minsan pumupunta sila dito. Nag-aaral kasi sila kaya pag-uwi nila sa bahay at wala pa ako sa bahay, sila na ang nagsasaing, ganun.
PIES
Problem Faced
- Client puts too much effort in a day, resulting in them being stressed, tired, and unorganized
| Physical Needs | Intellectual Needs | Emotional Needs | Social Needs |
| Client may be too tired and misplace her things after a long day at work. | Client might lose track of time considering their work schedule. | Client might be too stressed and tired considering the amount of work they put in the day. | Client is most often than not out for work, lessening her communication with her children. |
| Product > A storage device to keep her more organized. | Product > A portable alarm, where she could input her tasks, to keep her on track. >A product that allows them to input her schedule. | Product > A device to keep her destressed after a long day. >A place in the product to insert motivational quotes | Product >A device to better her communication with her children even when she’s away. |
Final Product
- A device that can be hanged on the wall with a space to carry small things, like keys, etc. – as well as two smaller ones to put other items like pens, markers, etc. – and a glass pane at the top to input schedules, to-do lists, motivational quotes, and messages/reminders for her children.
Research
Journal
01/28/20
We are writing down our evaluation criteria and questions we’ll use to interview our client. We deliberated whether or not our questions should be centered around our client’s hobbies or we’ll keep it vague. We decide on the former.
Cogitation:
We’re still working on the design brief, but at the same time we’re preparing questions for our interviewee.
01/30/20
Oh my god, I actually talked to someone. For today, we wrote down questions and interviewed someone from the utility crew. Myel egged on me to interview the client myself, I was like, “…no”, but I also thought “Errr, fine. No one else will do it.”
Cogitation:
We’ve now gotten a response from our client.
01/31/20
Now that we’re done with the interview, we listed down the questions and responses under PIES(Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social).
Cogitation:
We try sorting out the needs under said categories based on the responses from our client.
02/04/20
It’s Tuesday, I’m tired. I wanna sleep.
I’ve updated our website, where I posted our most recent journals. I kind of, low key, feel accomplished. Myel is editing our design task at Word Office(or is it Microsoft Word???? Microsoft Office?). We also add more to our list of possible products.
Cogitation:
We continue to look for possible solutions. Here’s to hoping Myel’s laptop doesn’t break down in the future.
02/6/20
Sir announces the people who are going to present their PIES table and their design. I already feel pressured. We brainstorm(because we didn’t even start with the design) our design. Apparently may exact measurements na dapat. Mark Edison and I are left to discuss the design. We’ve had some ideas that we jotted down. (for example, a clyndrical cart where our client could put her stuff).
Cogitation:
We now have a basic idea on the design.
02/11/20
Last night, Myel and I measured the length and width of our product by borrowing our friend’s broom. Today we now have a model of our product. We plan on making something with cabinets for personal use and beside it a trashcan or a place where our client could put her tools(like a broom). But we run into some technicalities, specifically about our design. There’s a certain part of the model that is semi-curved. We aren’t sure what to do with it.
Cogitation:
We will further discuss and improve our model.
02/13/20
We now get ready to present our work. Myel edits our design task on her laptop, which she curses for almost not functioning properly. We’ve talked a bit more about our product’s design and today she let me see the new, revised model. We made it into something you could put on a table or desk, with cabinets and compartments for personal things, a calendar and a digital clock. We also decided to put a glass pane on top where our client could put her schedule.
Cogitation:
We are thinking of more things to complete our model.
02/18/20
We presented what we had so far. Sir gave us comments and suggestions, like how to connect our final product with the other two needs and products. He also made us restate what we put down for our ‘social needs’. Sir also asked for a possibly more innovative design for this platform our model stands on, which is rectangular.
Cogitation:
We will brainstorm ideas again to modify and hopefully improve our model and its function.
02/20/20
We start by discussing what we’re going to do with the rectangular platform our model stands on. For now, we are going to curve the platform and add hooks(Myel really likes hooks for some reason). Sir suggests to us ideas for innovative designs.
Cogitation:
We will again revise our model’s design.
02/21/20
Our model is now foldable and a hinge connects the two halves of our model. Sir liked our design when he looked at it. We decided we were done for today and took a break.
Cogitation:
I’m glad sir found our design innovative enough.
03/03/20
Sir shows us a powerpoint on electricity, which we will use for our project in the next quarter. It only dawns on me now that we’re steadily approaching the fourth and last quarter. How time flies. I think 3rd quarter is about two months.
Cogitation:
We are fastly approaching the fourth quarter…and maybe soon into a new project…
03/13/20
We’ve finally shown the finished product to our client. She seemed pleased with it. We also go her to evaluate our product.
Cogitation:
We did it! 😀
Transcript of Evaluation From Client
Q: Does our product fit the problems we found during our interview with you?
A: Yung ginawa niyo beh, ok naman.
Q: Are there any parts that could’ve been improved upon?
A: Ok naman po, beh, ang ginawa niyo. Kaso lang, bakit po hindi bilog?(referring to the semicircular bottom part of product)
Interviewer: Pwede niyo po kasi ito i-hang, tapos pwede mo po lagyan ng mga anu-ano.
Q: What is the best feature?
A: Ang pinakamaganda sa kanya ay ito, (points at the attached notepad-like thing) kasi pwede ka magsulat kung anong gusto mo.
Q: What is the worst feature?
A: Wala naman, ok man kasi beh.
Q: You don’t find any problems with it?
A: Wala naman po, beh.
Q: Is it nice to look at?
A: Opo, maganda siyang tingnan, kasi gold ang kulay niya.
Overall Evaluation
The outcome of this product went well. According to ma’am it did meet the design brief., and she qas even happy to know that we altered a bit of the design. It’s design fitted into the PIES chart and met with the evaluation criteria nicely. When showed to our client how it work, she was surprised to know that it was detachable – made for easier carrying – but was satisfied nonetheless and happy nonetheless. It worked well. She did not have much to say about further possible improvements to the product. The best feature for her was the additional blackboard – which was originally going to be a glass pane, it added a stylish flare to the product. She also liked the color of it. She had not much to say about the least best features, and no additional benefits. Once again, our client really liked the outcome of the product, since she sqid it was aesthetically pleasing. And it was ergonomically sound, we can say. Overall, the product was well executed, it may not be perfect but it was enough to satisfy our client.
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