Activities
1.
Identify the goal, target market, constraints and criteria
in the design brief for the domestic computer trolley.
Domestic
computer trolley The growth of home computing suggests
that there is a potential market for a new item of furniture: a domestic
computer trolley. Such a trolley would be capable of accommodating, in
appropriate positions, a computer monitor, keyboard, printer and
accessories such as a separate disk-drive and storage boxes for disks.
Potential users are both adults and children. Selling price must be not
more than $300. Problems of form and aesthetics are seen to arise from the
conflict between ‘high tech’ computer aesthetics and normal domestic
furniture aesthetics. Also from the space in flats in
2.
Think about objects in your own experience. Identify a
familiar type of object that you consider has developed incrementally. Explain
what the changes were for just one incremental change only. Use a simple sketch
to aid your explanations. If you are stuck for an object use
the telephone (see Collins, Design and Communication p3) as an example.
Answers:
1.
Goal design
a movable furniture item to accommodate home computer equipment.
Market adults and children
Constraints price, timescale
Criteria aesthetically
satisfactory, space-saving, usable by both adults and children
2.
Old fashioned phones (fig 1.17) when I was young had these
points:
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Fingers needed to be put in correct hole to dial number
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Time consuming – clockwise to dial number then the dial had
to go back to beginning
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Hole required to be correct dimension to fit human fingers
Replaced with
fig 1.18:
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Push button numbers speed dialling process
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Number redial and memory
Activities