Design Innovation Plastics
University 2nd Year
The project brief was based on designing a new pet accessory product. The brief for this project was as follows:
You are tasked to design a pet accessory product primarily in plastics. Your design must be:
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Original
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Environmentally aware and sustainable
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Cost effective to manufacture
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Affordable and user friendly
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Robust enough to sustain regular use by pets
The full brief for the project can be found through this link.
An early concept - having a container on the back seats of a car is a feature that was continued.
Therefore, I proposed to design a product that aided the user in transporting individual Koi Carp through using the most common current form of transportation, the car.
Through survey, I realised the target users would primarily be owners of Koi Carp looking to transport their koi carp from an aquatics centre to their pond or moving between their own ponds. Owners of Koi tend to be between 40-75 years old. From this information, I deduced the product needed to be an appropriate size and weight for this range of people. Currently on the market, are no systems in place for transporting individual koi carp of this particular size in an ordinary 5 seat 4 door car. Today, one would have to hire a private courier service to move the fish which can be an expensive process if only a few fish were being transported.
