Part 1: Divergent Ideas:

The idea of how we got these utensil ideas, our first idea was the four-sided pizza shovel, which can hold an entire 9 inch-12 inch pizza with only 1 hand. The second design was the spoon-fork-knife triple utensil, in which we basically get those 3 combinations together and form 1 utensil. The third design was a crab utensil that is a combination of a triangular blade and a spoon. After doing some research online, we found out that our second design was already designed and manufactured. Later soon, we also eliminated our first idea, the four-sided pizza shovel, the reason is that it can get your hands dirty when you hold the shovel. Lastly, we chose the crab utensil, well there are utensils that are designed to eat crabs, but there are like more than 10+types of utensils to eat that, and it’s not convenient. So we chose crab utensil to at last to design it more convenient for people to use.

Part 2: Feedback refinement:

After sharing our divergent ideas, we got a lot of feedbacks from people on where to improve on. We made the design more convenient by scaling the design to the smallest as possible, around 6 centimeters. Then, the triangular blade got scaled around 2 times larger than its original, we know that it can cause more damage if we made the blade a bit larger, but it can help us easily crack the crab’s head/back. It would let us have a good experience of eating crabs, not only the triangular blade can crack the head, it can also saw off the crab’s legs and lungs, to get its meat. Not only, we also scaled the spoon’s size to the average female crab’s width of the central brain. We refined our design using people’s feedback, but the thing is, we didn’t really get any useful comments from people, most of the refine and design are done by ourselves by providing feedbacks.

Part 3: Reflect & Share:

Some of our strengths and success in our design is that we made kind of abandoned the traditional use of crab utensils. Made it more like a travel kit due to we scaled the entire thing smaller. After that, we’ve reflected on our work and shared it with people. Also, we’ve flipped through our feedback and refinements, our divergent ideas. This help us to lead to the success of our design, simple, easy to carry, and creative. Like what Tim Cooks mentioned, “This isn’t just an upgrade, it’s a breakthrough.” we did succeed our mission of making the crab utensil easier to use, more affordable in a good material. Reusing the feedback and our ideas, reflect and enchant it. I’ve also looked at the ISB design process and discussed it with my partner, so we can have a better understanding of our design process and where we are at right now.