semi-self maintaining garden
2014 // 8 months
Self-directed project to increase peoples access to freshly grown produce in collaboration with the company SmartTech. I was responsible for all aspects of research, concept development, iterative testing, design for manufacture and prototyping. Research showed that current systems lacked practicality, were high maintenance and novice gardeners would be discouraged by lack of yield, often caused by inexperience in caring for a garden.
The result is a modular, reconfigurable, customisable gardening system that increases yield due to smart watering systems, is low maintenance, requiring care only once weekly and can be easily configured to the users space.
Bike Theft Prevention device
2012 // 3 months
Collaborative project with Ewan Alston and Marthe Solberg. Extensive user research and destructive testing lead us to focus on designing a solution for these issues:
Users do not want to spend 10% of the value of their bike on a quality lock. Most thefts are opportunistic due to low quality locking and poor securing. High quality locks are heavy and impractical to carry.
The result is a fast, free and secure bike lock that is retrofittable to existing street furniture. A strong chain prevents against opportunistic attacks and all the user needs is a padlock. Designed to be affordable to manufacture, each LockBlock costs under $10 to manufacture and is intended for public infrastructure.
Community First Responders
2011 // 3 months
This was a project sponsored by the Scottish Ambulance Service with the aim to improve user experience and incident documentation for first responders. My role was to work within a team where we analysed the existing system to pinpoint inefficiency and improve the process with a user centered design approach.
Our solution addressed impractical data collection, eliminated reproduction of data and provided a product that would allow first responders to practically document incidents while being unobtrusive to their work.
Coffee Stirrer
2011 // 1 week
Mini project to create a unique experience.
Fastrack
2013 // 3 months
Future transport project sponsored by Baushaus Luftfahrt.