Green Thumb User Identification
Ellie
Average Garden time:
30 min. per day, with 1- 11/2 on the weekends.
Verbal Complaint:
Plant growth unpredictable.
Aphid infestation after early rainfall.
Dogs getting in veg. patch.
Observed Obstacle:
Underestimated drastically the time required to set
up and maintain garden.
Watering plants indiscriminately.
Care required in the selection of plants and
watering scheduling is not feasible for most people.
Adam
Average Garden time:
30 min. every other day, Manual labor on weekends
Verbal Complaint:
Soaker hose is imprecise.
Plants dying for not discernible reason.
Observed Obstacle:
Two timers are used.
Using legacy equipment because he doesn’t really
want to upgrade everything.
Laying more hoses is costly in money and time.
Wants to build a better system but lacks the time
and money to make one.
Roei
Average Garden time:
30 min. every other day, 1-2 hours on weekends
plus time spent on side projects.
Verbal Complaint:
Timer always resets it self.
Digging lines is difficult.
Observed Obstacle:
Spliced wires to run multiple solenoids on one
timing channel.
Killed plenty of plants by not watering.
Other plants died for no reason.
Bought plants for no reason.
Green Thumb User Scenario
Planning Control Build
Trouble ShootMaintainDecadence
–– Purchases the Starter pack. Has a vague idea of how to use it.
–– Uses NFC to quickly connect to the devices.–– App walks the user through the whole process.
–– Uses the camera to ID the various plants in the yard.
–– User photographs a plant or plant tag in app, saving the care data. To transfer to a Scion device, the user “bumps” their phone to it.
–– Plants with some planning, but impulse and availability drive most decisions
–– Wants to have a nicer garden, without killing too many plants.
–– Plants Root device–– Lays out hose for Scion devices, when applicable. Plants Scion devices.
–– This group of devices assumes that the user is aware of the features of their phone, as well as some home-based technology. If these technologies are absent the product will be severely gimped.
–– Basic watering functions are taken care of.–– pH balance is also monitored.–– When nitrogen sensors come to market, those too.
–– The user will have to make sure to check notifications on phone, or problems could arise
–– Because this user is not as anticipative as the Pre-planner, the device may be in bad shape, enough to be rendered useless. Reuse or recycle program should be in place
–– Alternatively, the user could encounter the app first, use that to inform his purchase of plants. I feel that this scenario exposes the user to a subpar experience.
–– To simplify the process, an augmented reality application could be used, integrating the bluetooth of the Scion device and the camera function. The camera will tell the scion device how far away from the target plants it is.
Green Thumb Application “Works like” Scenarios
Plant information screen just prior to
transmission.
Plant note taking ability, centered
around each plant.
Reading the plant tags like Google
Goggles, but with a plant-centric bent.
Application of facial recognition
technology to plant identification. Uses
EXIF data along with information from
the autofocus to determine distance,
then matches leaves and branch
structures to individual plants.
Wrenthen Project Brief and Inspiration
Create a fork to be used in fine dining situationsTask:
Visual Inspiration: Aural Inspiration:Lexical Inspiration:UNSWERVING, adj. - 1. Not veering or turning
aside: “a path . . . so straight and unswerving” (Mary
Wilkins Freeman).
2. Constant; steady: unswerving allegiance;
unswerving devotion.
“unswerving.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 12 May. 2008. <Dictionary.
com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unswerving>.
“Vita Nostra”Ennio MorriconeThe Mission Soundtrack
This source of inspiration, gave me a very clear
sense of directionality, for obvious reasons.Taking a cue from the ripples in the sand, an
undulating emotion was extracted.
Ennio Morricone’s experience scoring spaghetti
westerns shines in this track, leaving a sense of
wanderlust and non-directionality in its wake.
Wrenthen Ideation
With India ink on newsprint, I considered the in-
spiration sources and started painting. After several
pages, I considered the results, selecting a few I
thought were representative of the overall feel. One
stroke in particular stood out, and I used it to start
sketching.
Many pages were spent considering the flow of
the fork, several design directions were chosen and
carved out of foam.
Wrenthen Ideation and casting
Several concepts were chosen, then constructed.
Out of those, three concepts were selected and
expanded. After the final decision was made, a
silicone mold was constructed.
Using the lost wax method, we created a ceramic
investment. It was then filled with bronze. The result
was then sanded down and polished
Wrenthen Final Model
The final concept was to have the top surface flow
to the bottom of the tines. Instead of having a lot of
visual weight, the fork floats off the table, ready to
be picked up.
Collaboratron
The student desk meant for sharingAlias model Created for a materials and processes class
Collaboratron Final Renders
Meet the Collaboratron, the bent tube and laminate
cooperative student desk.
Collaboratron Final Orthogonal Views
This flexible seating solution allows for two students
to work comfortably beside each other, or arrange
the desks in groups of 8 or 12.
Ranga Puja PressSave the Date Email
Email Invitation
1/6th Page Ad for a biweekly magazineOdissi Ranga Puja
Mallika Bhandarkarby
Disciple of Guru Jyoti Rout
Cañada College Theater4200 Farm Hill Blvd.Redwood City, CA 94061
jyotikalamandir.org
September 19th, 20093:00PM
I was responsible for all the graphic design, as well
as some of the promotional photography. Any and
all close-up pictures were taken by me
AppGnomeFirst, to develop a apropos logo, one must
understand what the base meaning of the company
name, beginning with the dictionary definition.
Ideation
GNOME, noun: [1]
1. One of a species of legendary creatures, usually resembling small misshapen old men, said to live
in the depths of the earth and guard buried treasure
2. The statue of a gnome, esp in a garden
[1] : “Gnome.” Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. 03 Sep. 2010. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Gnome>.[2] : “Gnome.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 1 September 2010. Web. 1 Sept 2010.
“The chthonic spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding
mines and precious underground treasures....” “J. R. R. Tolkien, in the legendarium surrounding his Elves,
uses “Gnomes” as a name of the Noldor, the most gifted and technologically minded of his elvish races
... Tolkien’s English loan-translation of Quenya Noldor, “those with knowledge”....” [2]
Next, consult Wikipedia to gain additional, however
unreliable, understanding of associations and roots
of the name.
Google Image Search yields images of garden
gnomes (and images of the Travelosity “Roaming
Gnome”)...
... and various images of World of Warcraft Gnomes
AppGnome IdeationStarting with simple sketches, ideas were sketched
out. The client approved the final design direction.
AppGnome Given the choice of many different fonts and color
options....
Color and Font Selection
Final Design with fonts and colors chosen
AppGnome Inc.
Optamotive E-Rex
Styling, design, and implementation of doors and
rocker panels of a three-wheel, all-electric vehicle.
Optamotive Design Brief and IdeationInitially tasked with installing an aftermarket body-
kit (an Aero 3s fiberglass bodykit) on a modified
Campagna T-Rex (a task fraught with a myriad of
problems), the final design brief was to build the
doors, hinges, latches and rocker panels.
Shook Design was brought in to complete back
panels and other body modifications.
Requirements given stated that the doors must
be weather-proof and have latch releases on both
the inside and the outside of the doors. With this
requirement (the body-kit doors did not have pro-
visions for latching), and a quest for aerodynamic
efficency lead to smoother shapes on the doors.
OptamotiveDoor construction began with taking the included
doors and copying them. Taking the new positive,
a new negative was constructed, modified and
epoxyed on the original door. Bearclaw latches and
internal structure were epoxied in place. Doors
and rocker panels were matched up to rear body
constructed by Jim Shook of Shook Design.
Construction
Construction photos taken by David Erdelyi
OptamotivePre-paint, at the end of the build.
Exhibition at a sponsors event, photos taken by David Erdelyi
Create a desk lamp that is inspired by Fingathing’s “Walk in Space” Task:
Fingathing
“With the homage to the Star Wars cantina band on its cover, its unabashedly kitschy geek-chic concept, and its blend
of twitchy IDM, instrumental hip-hop, and gaudy sound effects, Fingathing and the Big Red Nebula Band seem born for
anime kids, suburban B-boys, and Adult Swim message boarders.” - Brian Howe of Pitchfork.com describing Fingathing
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