Design

Design is a very broad term and can be hard for many to describe. To me, design means the ideas and actions that are used create something, whether that be an object, machine, floor plan, house or anything we see.

The most interesting design domains to me are engineering design and design of experiments. Engineering design interests me because of it's broad foundation. In that, you can create components for machines or systems to help better them by using software such as Solidworks. Also, you can see the overview of a current operating system or process and then analyze what could use improvement. once you have done that you can come up with ideas to improve the system. Furthermore, you can then put those paper ideas into action whether that be making something or simply changing the order or refining the current process with vocal ideas. Secondly, i think design of experiments is also fascinating. I would love to be apart of a team that comes together to collaborate ideas. With those ideas then sorted out to the best ones, put them to the test by creating those ideas using new technology such as 3D printing or even the old fashion way of hand crafting.

On the other hand, the least interesting design domain to me is retail design. In retail design, you create a space in a store that holds products such as a floor plan, that will benefit the sale of products. Also, you create the overall layout of stores so that the consumers will be most likely to buy product. In my eyes, I want to create objects based off the buyer's needs so whatever I can make will be 100% beneficial to the consumers.

Last semester, in EDSGN 100, our final project was to design something something safe, connected, and economically friendly to improve cars for DELPHI. In groups, we did decided to focus on safety and did external and internal searches to see what was a common problem in cars. Next, we make surveys for consumers to take to get direct feedback on what would help according to them. Following that, we proceeded to brainstorm ideas that were relevant to our topic including some wild ideas. After choosing a single idea we went ahead and made a model representation on Solidworks. Also, we made a virtual display of what our idea would do. Finally was the presentation. An overview of our idea was a weather tech sensor with a windshield display. The sensor, mounted under the front wheel well would read road conditions and the rotation of the tire. This information would then be transferred onto the display and translated into useful information. Such information would include safe stopping distance, dryness/wetness of the road, and also the amount of grip your tire has on the road.