How did my final product solve my initial problem?

I wish to replace my previous card holder with something new, i decided to make a new card holder using leather. after I’m done it works perfectly fine.

What’s a skill I learned or improved on over the course of this project?

i learned how to sew which is the way of connecting two pieces of leather together to make the card holder, i learned how to hand sew and to use the sewing machine to sew.

If i could start over from the beginning, wha specifically would i“““““““““““““““““““““ change about my project?

i will make the pocket smaller but at the same time i will like to add more pockets to hold more stuff

To be honest, i hate my card holder, its ugly and its orange and its kinda dirty, i want a new one, a new card holder that will instantly help me get 1000 friends. In design this unit Mr. Layman challenged us to solve a problem in our everyday life with only a piece leather and other materials, I want to make a leather card holder.

In this unit of design, the teacher inquired us to construct a smell detector that is able to be traveled with and its easy to use and inspired by something thats already been invented today. My design is inspired by the temperature gun, I was amazed of how the temperature gun can detect a person’s temperature without any physical contact and that is my main take a way. I want to add this feature to my design so i constructed a gun like device, to use this device, you turn the device on first by pushing the on/off button, then you click reset to make sure its ready to detect, then you pull the trigger and the device will detect the smell around you, say if you have kimchi around you, the screen on the device will show kimchi and how many km you’re away from it. if you want to use the device again just press the reset button then you are good to detect again. The third button has the ability to detect Kendrick, allowing you stay away from him so he won’t kill you with a spoon. To turn off the device just press the on/off button again. the color is shaded with red and blue because at first I was going for a Lakers theme, but I can’t find purpled and gold so yeah.

For this unit of Product Design, we are assigned to make a light box that reminds un of somewhere that is important to us. The place i choose is LA’s Hollywood sign because first, I’ve lived in LA for a long time and Hollywood is my favorite place to go. Unfortunately because of covid I’m not able to go.

One piece of feedback I’ve gotten on my lightbox is to cut holes in my very back layer because now one of the problems that my li

ghtbox faces is when i open the lights because of back layer not much light can pass through to light up the whole box, the part i would cut out is probably the sky since there is just large chunks of blue as the sky and i messed up the color of the sky so i will cut that part.

Along with the time of making this light box, i’ve learned several skills, I’ve learned how to use Adobe Illustrator to make my layers, to create rounded corners, to turn a icons downloaded online to lines that allows me to edit the icons and make them readable to the laser cutter. Another skill that I’ve learned is to properly use super glue, I’ve learned that if you got super glue on your hands don’t peal it of, it will take off along with your skin, a good way to use super glue is to use tweezers to replace your hand to hold whatever you want to glue.

Something I learned about myself during this project is that i don’t like to double check. I know this because I messed up my laser wood cutting 3 times just because i refuse to double check, i will improve myself by double check every time from now on.

One piece of advice I’d give a future student doing this project would be to plan well before you start making your actual thing, I’ve learned this the hard way, before i thought i’ve done enough planning so i started to construct my layers right away, but when i bring it to the teacher i’ve noticed several crucial mistakes that led to me redoing my layers.

During the COVID-19 outbreak that is happening around the world and we’re all stuck at home, we started a new unit called “Our Stories Makes History”, it’s about adding your photos, daily journals, and the articles you’ve read about the COVID-19 or just anything that you recorded during this period of time. To organize my work, I started using Canva because, first Canva is a website that is focused on making posters or timelines or collages or anything related digitally, second this is a website that I’m comfortable with using. I think this primary source will show people how it feels like to be stuck at home for a very long time and how it feels like to have someone in your family who is sick and not sure if they got the virus, or just how to be protecting yourself from the virus. Something that went well in this unit is using canva to create my work and something that’s challenging is to write a diary every single day there isn’t anything to write about when you’re stuck at home and staring at a computer screen all day.