MKMary Kathryn Suttle - Virginia Tech - Industrial Design - 2013

LiteBox portable light desk

8 week project; design and build a workstation that is mobile and dual function

User

Anna runs her own small business as an interior designer. She does a lot of drafting for home additions, cabinet arrangements, room layouts, and tile designs. Anna does not own a light table, instead she uses natural light from a window. I want to design a small scale light table that is more practical for her.

Ideation

Market Research

light source

compartment for power sourcehandle

drawer for storage

magneticfastener

Final Concept Development

Sketching and SolidWorks Rendering

Squeeze pancake batter dispenser

4 week project; redesign and improve an existing kitchen tool

Batter Dispenser

Reservoirrotational, metal

Holds the batter to be dispensed, holds the handle assembly steady.

Handle Assemblybrown, plastic

Buttonbrown, plastic

Rodmetal, rod

Stoppermetal, cone

spring

Controls the flowof batter

Connects the button to the

stopper.

Pushes the stopper down to

open up the hole.

nut & washer

Reservoir

Handle Assembly

Stopper

Button

Rod

ButtonRod

spring

threads

washer

nut

Rod

Stopper

Product Dissection

Dispensers that are squeezed on the handle to dispense the batter

Dispensers that the batter pours out of.

Dispensers that have a rod that is pushed down to release batter.

Market Trends

Hand Study and Ideation

Model Development

Story Board

Final Concept

KidSafe line of childproof bottles for cleaning products

10 week project; design a product to enter into an international competition

less than 50% of cleaning products on the market have child resistant lids

Research

there are 1.2 million accidental poisonings in children under 5

each year

38%63%

37% 63%670,000

(56% from non-pharmaseutical products)

only 37% of families make an effort to purchase products with

child resistant lids

containers for children

vs.

containers for adults

avoid bright colors and

blobby forms

Ideation

the bottles all have the same basic form so that they will be easily recognizable

spray

poor

squeeze

Final Concept

unlockedlocked

Ridges on a silicone band align with ridges on the bottle to unlock the lid.