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The Soothing Beanie
The Soothing Beanie is a modern beanie and scarf combo to soothe your worst migraines!
Unbutton the flap to block out harsh light and stay warm with a wool body and a cashmere lining for comfort. Connect the Soothing Beanie to any outlet using a convenient magnet connection on each side. When connected, the stretchy carbon tape woven inside the fabrics heats up. When the scarf is buttoned to the beanie, both heat up! Rotate the trendy pom pom on top to tighten a net of fibers for a 360-degree compression massage. Press the pompom down to lock it in place or let go and feel it return to its original shape.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TjKIfIB6QM
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Assumption Map
Assumption Map
Critical Assumptions Justifications
Lilijana is not currently satisfied with the solutions she is using
- If Lilijana does not believe there is a problem, she will not buy the Weekend Kapuch.
Lilijana likes the style of the Weekend Kapuch
- If Lilijana does not think the Weekend Kapuch is “cute” as she would describe it, she would not wear it despite other potential benefits. As noted in assignment 2, this is why the overall style, color, and pom pom were all thoroughly considered.
Lilijana finds the Weekend Kapuch comfortable
- If it is not comfortable, she will not wear it. Whether from harsh light or the cold, the entire goal of the product to make her more comfortable.
Lilijana wants a new hat
- If Lilijana is not willing to buy a new hat because it would mean wearing her other hats less, she will not buy the Weekend Kapuch. Lilijana loves her current hats so it would be important to assess what kind of attachment she has to them.
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Assignment 2 – The Weekend Kapuç
The Weekend Kapuç
The customer is Lilijana, my girlfriend’s mother. She is middle-aged and works full-time as a teacher and school director.
Lilijana is always cold and suffers from frequent migraines. Because of this, she wears a beanie in all conditions, inside or out, summer or winter. If she has a migraine on her days off, you can find her on her couch covered from head to toe with blankets when the light is too irritating.
The Weekend Kapuç (pronounced “Kah-pooch”) is a warm and breathable beanie made out of a technical vegan fabric styled in pink with a pompom on top. On the forehead portion of the Weekend Kapuç, there is a flap fastened by cute buttons. Once unbuttoned, the flap folds down, turning into an eye mask, blocking out the light which can be very harsh while experiencing a migraine. Last but not least, the Weekend Kapuç can be heated up in the microwave which warms a band of beads inside the headband. The Weekend Kapuç allows Lilijana to stay warm all year round, wear her favorite clothing accessory, and gain relief from migraines.
Potential Issues
- It may be hard to create a light material that can be heated up through a microwave, does not get dangerously hot, stays hot for a reasonable amount of time, and is light enough for a thick beanie.
- Coolness seems to be recommended more than heat to help with migraines.
- It may be expensive to protype
Challenges while using TinkerCad
- My design became essentially uneditable, would crash, whenever I made an edit it would immediately revert.
- Per advice found online, I duplicated the entire project which solved the issue.
- I also had difficulty making rounded shapes as I was trying to simulate fabric.
A special thanks to Lilijana for being the inspiration for this product idea. She is a loving mother who makes sure I am well fed and always looks out for me. Whether this idea solves her issue or not is to be determined, but I hope to help her find a solution to her daily problems!
Note: Everything in the design is mine besides the pompom.
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Lego Man
As I child I loved legos! I would look forward to every holiday planning out which lego set I would ask for next. As my collection increased, I would break them apart and create new things along with a story in my head to follow. I hope to one day play with legos with children.
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Assignment 1 Reflection
Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that can look different in every scenario. It is a powerful system that I intend to learn more about and apply to my work outside of school to solve difficult problems that I have not succeeded in the past. As I described in Assignment 1, I am currently using the early stages of design thinking to create a better proposal for a potential client, to increase the probability of being hired. I look forward to practicing design thinking as I believe I will improve at it each time. I can see myself empathizing more, bringing fewer assumptions, forgoing solutions early on to sufficiently immerse myself in the problem. I would like to learn more about how design thinking is used for non-product, more abstract problems such as structures.
Assignment 1 allowed me to hear others’ thoughts about design thinking, comparing their words, and contrasting their actions. I found the IDEO shopping cart video particularly interesting as I think it led to insights about their process. For example, the way interviewee talked about their organizational structure was flat made sense when they emphasized not shooting down ideas and even enforced it by publicly calling them out. Also, how a more junior member was a group leader simply because was better suited to the task. A final example is how they leverage experts on the problem they are solving rather than learning everything themselves. Creating a more meritocratic, open-minded culture allows them to better work together and leverage their resources.
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What Does Innovation Mean to Me?
Innovation occurs when something new is created. I typically think of it through the lens of business but innovation can be anything from the new improving the camera on the new iPhone every year to a new way of doing something. Simply put, innovation is doing something or creating something new that has benefit. I view innovation in my personal life as a perpetual process, as I try to improve one day to the next, from changing my diet, implementing a new routine, or using a new product, all with the goal of making my life more enjoyable in one form or another.
It is easy to confuse innovative ideas with true innovation as innovative ideas have no value unless acted upon, which in doing so is innovation. This is also clear to me in my personal life, as me hearing about something I could do to improve my life doesn’t actually improve my life unless I actually do it. The same is for businesses, innovative ideas must be implemented in order to create value.
It is also important to recognize that innovation doesn’t only come from ground-breaking ideas such as the iPhone but it can be a small improvement in the way we approach a problem or complete a process that can have a tremendous impact over time.
The question, “What does innovation mean to me?” implies that there are many definitions of innovation and people use different ones interchangeably. Whichever definition we choose to use, we should make sure that we focus on not only how we can foster innovative ideas but how we can implement them to benefit from true innovation.
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