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My Design Process

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In November, I started with this idea of designing a snowflake in a circle, kind of like a snow-bulb. I started off having issues with Fusion, but soon I got help from my friend and my teachers. The process of tracing the snowflake out was pretty complicated, because after I had done tracing it, I noticed that there were many layers of sketches on it, so I had to restart and delete them all again. Then, Ms. Kim gave me a good suggestion about editing the tracing lines from thin to thick, so when it is laser cutting it would be more stable and I can design a better project. I feel like this project was successful except that I wasn’t able to laser-cut in the last class of the semester. I hope I will have time to laser-cut when Chinese New Year break ends! Overall, I had fun designing this lamp and I feel like the decisions done were very well implemented.

The first four photos are the ones I made when I first started using fusion. The last photo is my final design. Learning how to use fusion was not easy for me, with all the tools and the buttons you need to click and move. But since my friend is a very good helper, she taught me how to get through these challenges and that’s how I improved. I feel that the circular pattern tool is very cool, because it provides a lot of convenience when you are trying to create a thing that has a pattern and repeats again and again. In summary, I believe that I conquered many challenges by myself, but also gained support from my friend and teacher.

Some tips I would give for the next students taking this course is that they can watch the tutorial video of how to use fusion several times so they can get the idea quickly of how to control this app. I think Ms. Kim is a wonderful teacher that gives very good advice, but I hope that maybe she could gather some of the incoming students’ problems while using fusion and provide the whole class with an answer. I think this design course is challenging but very exciting, I hope to get to do more design projects!

Thank you for reading my blog post, I hope you enjoyed it! Design is awesome 🙂

Design project!

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During our brainstorm, I came up with two ideas and my partner (Michelle) came up with two ideas. One of my ideas was a clipper for Chinese sandwiches/burgers, the other one a spoon for eating watermelon. I got both of my ideas from daily life because that’s what I had gone through went I ate these foods during summer break. Michelle’s ideas were a spoon for people with the Parkinson disease, and an automatic twirler fork for people eating spaghetti. She also got these ideas from daily life, because her grandfather is a person with the Parkinson disease, and she saw people eating spaghetti with tomato sauce all over their face.

Most of my feedback from the students for the brainstorm and sketch are not very friendly, therefore we did not use it. For example, one of our feedback based on one of our drawings said “Nice boat”. This feedback cannot be applied firstly because it is an unkind discrimination to the drawing even though the drawing is quite easy to be misunderstood. Instead, the student could write this comment as a wish saying “It would be easier to understand if you sketched out a clearer drawing or provided a clearer idea “Secondly, this feedback cannot be applied because it does not clearly point out what we did appropriately and what is our insufficient. On the other hand, we noticed that our idea might be a bit immature, causing the inaccuracy within our sketches.

The strengths of our design is that it is easy to make, light weighted, and useful in our lives, some weaknesses of it is that it might be pretty easy to break.

 

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Design- Bluetooth Speaker

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This is the bluetooth speaker I designed in Design class. It uses the design aesthetic of vintage, and I painted it pink/purple. I hope you enjoy my poster and my blog! 🙂

One thing I struggled during working was trying to put the chip in the right place where the person using the speaker can easily access it. After I taped it onto the speaker, the chip’s position was more easy to be accessed.

I am proud of how the glue is not leaking out of the speaker and that it looks clean. I also like the color of the speaker, because I designed the color and I think that I will use this color later while designing.

If I could change something about my product I would make it smaller so it would be easier to hold and it would match the style of vintage more.

Thank you for watching my blog, I hope you like this speaker!

Sandwich clipper reflection

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During this unit, we created designs that could better make sure that food is not wasted because of minor problems that cause people to not like it. I invented a sandwich clipper for my partner Erica so that she would be able to eat and enjoy the sandwich more.

My biggest success was to make the prototype pretty stable and it held together so that it wouldn’t be demolished by the force of the sandwich when someone is eating it. Something that I learned about myself during the making process is that I am not the kind of person who works and makes things really neatly, so if I could do my design again, I would like to improve the neatness and some of the structure of the sandwich clipper.

Overall, I enjoyed making this design and am looking forward to creating more unique things!

Grade 6 Science Design Challenge

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  1. We were trying to solve the problem of drinks getting cold in mugs, so we designed a cup insulator which will keep the drink warm.
  2. First, we learned about the problem we are trying to solve (drinks getting cold in mugs), then we drew a plan, while we were drawing the plan, we thought of the materials and the length. Lastly, we created it. We made the insulator well built, and it was very strong and removable.
  3. My claim is that my insulator will slow the speed of the water’s temperature decreasing. During the experiment, the graph of the temperature of water decreasing supports my claim. It shows that the water’s temperature stays the same for an amount of time because the insulator helps the water stay warm. Also, we added a material that can help the water’s temperature stay warm, it reflects the heat back to the thing it’s covered on, like our mug.
  4. One thing I would do differently is that I would measure the material more precisely, because the insulator is a little big for the mug.
  5. One limitation my group found in this project is that there are some materials that are not in the design lab, so Stella (my partner) brought a special kind of material from her home.
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