Cardstuff Project

Design Problem

It is important that people keep forgetting things throughout the day.

Sure, phones, such as my own Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (co-owned by Bell, Koodo, and Best Buy Mobile) have apps that can do the reminders for you, but what about when the battery dies?

You would also have to walk a long way over to bulletin boards.

Design Brief

Our plan was to make a bulletin board in a cube.

By having something to look at, you would know about reminder, imporant dates, and more, easily.

Investigation and research

Causes of memory loss include Alzheimer's disease, aging, depression, side effects of medication, alcohol abuse, lack of vitamin B12, stress and worry, illnesses, absentmindness, misattribution, suggestibility, anxiety, and others.

Misattribution: Not considering a quality of a person

Suggestibility: Easily influenced by suggestion.

Some people rarely have phones, while reminder apps such as Google Keep have about 50,000,000 downloads.

Bulletin boards can also be large, with too much detail.

Best Solution

We figured that a bulletin board in a cube, like our eventual product, Cubulletin, was the best solution when we found that cubes were very popular, such as the Rubik's Cube, a puzzle game, and its spinoffs.

Cubes are also used in everyday lives for more than ever.

Working drawings

A drawing was created on Google Drawings,

Realization

We used the card stock paper provided, as well as a set of toothpicks, to hold the edges together.

The toothpicks were taped together by Scotch tape, and were used to seal the edges of the cube.

Test and Evaluate

A test of the product is slated to take place at Kyle Nurse (our group leader)'s house sometime before he gets back to me.

What I thought

When we made this prototype, I was satisfied with what we did because I instantly imagined what it would do.

When we thought of the idea, I even thought about making a few places to put pins in.

What I liked

I liked that I was able to help my group with the planning process and the actual construction of our prototype.

What I disliked

I did a bit of the manual work, and at one point, I got a bruise in my finger!

What could have been changed

Do any pieces of cork live in the tech design room?

If so, I was thinking of adding a piece of cork to one of the walls of the Cubulletin, so that it could actually act like a bulletin board.

Contributions

During the course of the design process, I helped out with cutting the toothpicks (where I got my aformentioned bruise), as well as with the idea itself.