Over the past few weeks in Emerging Tech, I have been working on creating a phone stand. Through this project, I learned from an article about Making Meaning (http://nathan.com/making-meaning/), how companies aim to provide a meaningful customer experience to their customers via their products because the marketplace is very competitive.
Ideation:
In coming up with the idea for my phone stand, I took a look at different phone stands from Pinterest . I selected my Top 10 phone stands which I then narrowed to 3 choices (Top 3 shown below) before coming up with my design. I chose them because they are creative and look good.
I like these three phone stands because with the Bag stand you can easily slip your phone into it, the Radio stand is unique and invokes wonder, and the simple stand because it looks like a comfortable stand where you can play your favourite games from your phone on.
Process:
In the end, I decided to create a simple phone stand that is functional. I created my prototype in Illustrator and then sent it off to the laser printer to be printed. Once it was printed, it had to be washed off and glued. Initially, the dimensions were off and the phone could not fit. I had to redo several of the measurements before a phone could fit.
A photo of my final product is shown below.
Although initially, I felt that this project overall wasn’t something I can relate to since I don’t own a phone, I learned a lot about the product ideation process and what companies and we have to think about when coming up with a design. Now I am also more aware that when I buy certain things, there is a meaning behind my selection process.
For example, when I buy my Lego sets, the meanings behind choosing them are Creation and Accomplishment when I assemble the sets, Harmony when I buy sets from the same series, and Wonder because my creations are amazing to look at!
