Part 1: Divergent Ideas

Our ideas of brainstorming the utensils are actually coming from our brains directly. When we have an idea, we share it with each other. We draw it on the sheet if we think it’s acceptable and appropriate. But if we have ideas that are not so good, we decide if we want to improve our thinking more, which creates a new design; or we just give up the design. We discuss a lot when we decide if a design is good or not. This helps us come up with 10 different ideas that will help on eating food better.

Part 2: Feedback&Refinement

We have received a variety of post-its that includes both positive and negative feedback, and the most wishing feedbacks are the hoping for a neater look, which needs improvement on handwriting, drawing, and space usage. So, in parts 4 and 6, we’ve improved a lot on the drawing/writing and also organizing the space. Here are the 2 pictures of the drawing before the feedback and the drawing after the feedback.

Before:

After:

The 2nd picture is definitely clearer and neater than the 1st picture. I can tell that feedback is very important and impacts us to improve in a good way.

Also, since there is no feedback on changing/improving the design of the straw, we came up with an improvement of changing the two-people straw to single person straw, because we think this two-people straw is not so useful. If we change it to a single-person version, it doesn’t require several people to be able to use the straw, but any person can use it.

Improvement:

Part 3: Reflect&Share

The strength of this utensil is that it can be shortened/lengthened, which helps the user by drinking the beverage without wanting to move. The weakness of this utensil is that it might be dirty to use if your hand is not clean. The materials we need in rather make this are plastic and rubber bands.