Using one of 4 characteristics of accessibility, could you redesign the Vooheers’ elevator? Could you hand-sketch your design?

1 ) How are you today?

2) What contents do you remember in the last class?

We will design an elevator. Could you take pictures of an elevator that you usually use everyday/several times a week? Upload the pictures in openlab and provide links of them.

Group discussion:
Discuss other examples of 80/20 rule and post the example that can apply 80/20 rule.

Group A, B, C, D, and E.

1) How was the labor day weekend? Did you enjoy it?

2) How do you like this smart gun discussion?

Hi Class,

One of our classmates, Liza is sharing info about a free online design class. Please find the following message from her and go to the links.

Thank you, Liza.

Hi Masa,

I thought this free online course (starting tomorrow) offered by Ideo may be interesting for some industrial design students to take. It’s teaching Human-Centered Design, which is a design process that Ideo honed, with a focus on creating solutions for the intended end users of a product or service. I’ve taken their Prototyping course before and enjoyed it.

https://novoed.com/design-kit-2016-3/

Here’s some more info on HCD: http://www.designkit.org/human-centered-design

I hope you had a great weekend, see you in class!

—

Liza Chiu

Suppose you are designers in a design office and your senior designer asks you to apply this smart gun design competition.   Could you discuss redesigning current regular guns or redesigning a smart gun? Summarize the discussion in one page of MS word file including your names and group name.

Below are some useful references in understanding the issues and some of the approaches to developing smart gun technology
https://smarttechfoundation.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_gun
Good introduction to the issues involved in smart-gun development.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/politics/obama-puts-his-weight-behind-smart-gun-technology.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/04/29/update-what-were-doing-keep-guns-out-wrong-hands
President Obama and Vice President Biden address the issue
https://www.nraila.org/issues/smart-gunspersonalized-firearms/
NRA “not opposed” to development of smart-gun technology, as long as it is not mandatory.
http://www.safeguntechnology.co/
http://nationswell.com/these-5-smart-gun-technologies-could-be-the-future-of-firearms-in-america/
Good overview of technologies under consideration.
http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/smart-gun/
The difficulties one is likely to encounter.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/default/files/Gun%20Deaths%20Fact%20Sheet_v8.pdf
Summary data, gun violence in the U.S.

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Student discussion results:

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

How are you today? What do you want to do during the labor day weekend?

Welcome to industrial design I course in fall 2016.  Could you post an introduction about

1. your name,
2. Why you choose this department? Why you want to be an industrial designer/engineer?
3. What is your career goal?
4. What kind of project you want to do in class?