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Newcastle , United Kingdom
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Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Health Play

Health Play

Group: Sam Mitchell, Emma Mallen, Ahana Kothari, Olinga William Leung, Rhob Edwards.
This project focuses on patients suffering from psoriasis. Psoriasis is a chronic and acute condition of the skin that has detrimental effects on the patient’s quality of life, self esteem and self perception.
The project brief is to design both an improvement of the toy and a related website to ensure parents and healthcare professionals can monitor the patients behavior in relation to their condition and the toy. 

Mind map

Mood board
We put together some mood boards depicting girl's and boy's existing toys, tamagochis and children hobbies.




Story board

Design Specification
Customer Requirements
-Must treat or improve quality of life for child suffering from Psoriasis                               -Must target 9-year-old girls  
-Must have some kind of fun interaction with the child                                                      -Must be easy to use
-Should encourage exposure to sunlight                                                                             -Must be safe to use
-Should have a notification system                                                                                     -Should be aesthetically pleasing
-Must be affordable                                                                                                             -Must be easy to maintain
Engineering Requirements
-Must be made of sustainable/bio-degradable materials                                                      -Must be made of durable materials
-Waterproof and corrosion resistant                                                                                    -Cannot be too big or small

Concepts
Smile Watch

George

PsoPlay
Kanji
iDoctor

Concept selection



Concept Development.
 
 
 
 
 
Final design.
Logo




Watch Faces



Watch Interface




Website Layout















CAD : Solidworks

HAND DRILL ON SOLIDWORKS

I design and build a hand drill on Solidworks shows the animation video.



Design for debate

DESIGN FOR DEBATE

Group 2: Ahana Kothari, Sam Mitchell, Sam Brown, John Digby, Emma Stephenson.

What is a dogma: A dogma is an established opinion or belief.
Design Brief: Our brief it to think about dogmas, discover one and then go against our choosen dogma. To design a conceptual product that is anti dogmatic in nature.
As a group we put thought behind what established beliefs and principals surround our everyday lives. To the right you will see the ideas that were initialy generated.
After this initial generation of ideas social media was the route that we decided to take. The dogma behind social media being that it is an established opinion that you are to promote yourself on social networks, to show the best possible digital version of yourself.

Social Media:
More brainstorming was then done focused directly at social media, the variety of platforms, what is common within these platforms and the risks that could be associated with going against the dogma of portraying yourself in the best possible light.
This research is displayed as mind maps from our thought generation and mood boards from the research performed into the current popular social media platforms.

Initial Mood boards:

Posters:


Concept generation mind map
 
Concept Story Boards:
Facebook add-on
 Spychat
 Instagram add-on


Final Logo for Spychat
This is the final logo of our Spychat app.
As seen from the story board below, Spychat allows friends to connect to each others phones, without the other person knowing. This can be done through the app and allows them to spy on the other person and record personal and embarrassing moments. this can then be uploaded to Facebook which increases the embarrassment and excludes the person from "cool" social groups.




We also made a video depicting the use of the Spychat app.