Me and Julie Fang designed a food utensil (a metal clip) for eating Chinese bread/ Chinese Burger. During our brainstorming part, we came up with 3 Ideas. I came up with 2 and my partner came up with 1. My first idea was inspired by my daily life: I’ve seen many people eating pasta and spread the sauce everywhere, and it is not very civilised, also twirling the spaghetti with the spoon and fork is too problematic. I think we can design a spoon with automatic twirler that can design a spoon with automatic twirler that twills the spaghetti. Another design I made was based on my grandpa, who is a Parkinson patient, because their hands shake without control, so it is hard to put food in their mouth. I designed a type of spoon that will enable a place will always stay up even though you shake your hands. My partner’s idea was also inspired in daily life. She realised that when she eats Chinese sandwich/burger, the meat and vegetable will slip out of the bread. She designed a clip that will clip everything together. At the end, we chose my partner’s idea because it is the most useful, and the one that will be most successful at making.

While designing our utensil, we receive feedback from our classmates. 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 strength of our utensil is that the material is very simple, and cheap to buy. This utensil is a great heat insulation, so we can still hold the bread when it is very hot. Also, this utensil’s main goal is to prevent the vegetable and meat from falling  However, our utensil’s weakness is that some people may not face this problem, therefore some customers might not purchase this utensil.