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To me, what is the value of design?

One thing that strikes me up at night is: What is the value of design? In order to find the answer, I have done a variety of projects, not only industrial design (which is my major) but also user-interface, exhibition curating, manufacturing process development, and so on. I strived to find my own definition to design’s value throughout the execution of these projects.

This portfolio is the journey of my exploration, including my trials, learnings, and growths.

Contents Profile

Introduction Personal Infomation Contact

Works

Flow

Professional Skills Experience

| Product Design

Urban cycling has been trending, but the experience is far from comfortable. The transfer is tough, safety is an issue, and the wrong choice of the bike can be very problematic. Flow provides a clever solution to these problems, realizing it all in a never-seen-before, sleek new form.

Shi Shi

| Product Design

“Can we make something for our city - Tainan?” is the question before this project start. Shi Shi is a set of product including four traditional utensils, a tableware bag and a pamphlet which introduces the traditional food in Tainan. The goal of Shi Shi is trying to use aesthetic design to intrigue people exploring this wonderful city.

Reen

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| Concept Design

Reen is a ring-like device that aims to save the vulnerable from being raped. Reen is connected to users’ phone, allowing it to call for help the instant and at the same time collect evidence by recording audio. Reen also collects information of every incident to builds up a database, then reflects in Reen’s public safety map.

Helmet Structure

| Manufacturing Development

This is an industry and academy cooperation project. The goals in this project are both developing a new manufacturing process and solving the strength issues of nowadays helmet interior structure.

After deeply understanding the helmet industry, I design a new structure which is not only stronger but also manufacturable.

Reuse Plastic Bag

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| Curation

The plastic bag actually more environmental-friendly because it costs less material, less distribution and has better duration. The problem is the over-wasted usage which causes a great amount of plastic trash. This exhibition is to let people know that reusing plastic bag is the best solution to save our environment.

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Experience

IDEO Shanghai Internship This was my first internship, I was very lucky to join IDEO Shanghai and work with many great designers. In these two months, I participated in various projects ranging from design proposal to industrial design. The know-how was very different, but I learned three big principles, “Work Smarter”, “Communication” and “Story Telling”. I tried to dig deeper into these principals and practice them as much as possible, not only in this internship but also in the future.

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Circular Material Workshop The topic of this workshop was to explore the circular material. I had a very hands-on and intense experience during the 4 days. I did many experiments to find great combinations of the ingredient which is useful, environmental-friendly and could be used in architecture. The main goal of this workshop was not about coming up with a brilliant idea or creating an innovative material. It was about trying, making mistakes, and keep learning from the process.

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Tokyo iSchool Workshop This was a very unique experience. I flew to Japan to participate in this workshop, worked with Japanese students at Tokyo University. It was hard but very interesting to collaborate with people from different countries or different backgrounds because they can always bring a very different perspective or opinion into the team. We sparked many cool ideas during the brainstorming. I had a great time and learnt many things from this amazing journey.

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ICPD Design Workshop The topic of this workshop was to design for the city where my campus located in - Tainan. Since the students from other countries didn’t know much about Tainan, we got started to travel around the city at first. After the research, we found that riding bikes was the best way to visit Tainan. At the end of the workshop, we delivered a concept of a smart bike system that combined with an App, which created a better experience for foreigners to visit this wonderful city.

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Profile Introduction

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Personal Infomation

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Contact

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Professional Skills

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Experience

Profile Hi, I am Andy.

Hi, my name is Andy.

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Profile Hi, I am Andy.

Profile Introduction My name is Andy Cheng, an Industrial Design undergraduate from Taiwan. As a designer to be, I am extroverted and adventurous, also very willing to explore the unknown. Working wise, I am a team working person, and my role is usually in charge of directing the discussion and visualizing the idea by sketching and modeling. To me, industrial design is a surface between technology, marketing, manufacturing, and most important, the people. I strongly believe that good design can not only solve the problems people are facing, but also create a new experience and shape the culture.

Personal Infomation Name

Specialties

Softwares

Sketching

Solidworks

CADing

Keyshot

Rendering

Sketch & Flinto (UI)

Model making

Adobe Photoshop

Concept developing

Adobe Illustrator

| Chinese (Native)

Design thinking

Adobe InDesign

| English (Oxford Online Placement Test Score 84/120 CEF C1 (04 / 09 / 2016))

Problem solving

Adobe Premiere Pro

Story telling

Adobe After Effects

Team leading

Adobe Bridge

| Ching-fei, Cheng (Andy Cheng)

Date of birth

Nationality

Language

Professional Skills

| October 11, 1997

| Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Education | Nation Cheng Kung University, Department of Industrial Design | Taipei Municipal Cheng Gong High School

Experience 2019. 04-09 / Ammunition Industrial Design Internship

Contact Phone

2018.12 / Taiwan Innovative Circular Economy / Workshop

| +886-975268334

2018.09-12 / NCKU ID Student Organization - Art Director 2018.07-09 / IDEO Shanghai Summer Internship

E-mail

| chengandy861011@gmail.com

2017.12 / 15th YSED Competition (advance to semi-final) 2017.12 / University of Tokyo x iSchool Workshop

Address

| 3F., No.13, Ln. 43, Minle St., Yonghe Dist., New Taipei City 234, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

2017.09 / Industry-Academy Cooperation with Shiny BabyŠ 2017.09 / ICPD Workshop 2017.04 / FASION x ID Interdisciplinary Workshop

Website

| https://www.andychengdesignportfolio.com

2017.03 / 22 DESIGN Concrete Workshop 2017.02 / Speculative Design Workshop

Linkedin

| https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-cheng-309a6516a

2016.12 / NCKU ID Winter Exhibition Designer

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Works Flow

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Shi Shi

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Reen

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Helmet Structure

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Reuse Plastic Bag

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What is the bike for the city ?

Urban cycling has been trending, but the experience is far from comfortable.

The transfer is tough, safety is an issue, and the wrong choice of the bike can be very problematic. We provide a solution to these issues, realizing it all in a never-seen-before, sleek new form.

Product Design | Flow Concept Brief

Transfer is tough City facilities are very unfriendly towards transfer, even in cities where the cycling culture is well established. Going in and out the Subway station, on and off the bus etc‌ is a time-consuming, uncomfortable and distressful process. Flow allows riders to flow through the transfer. An up-right folding position produces a fluent folding process. When folded, Flow also allows riders to push the bike easily.

Safety is an issue The safety of urban riding is no joke. Traffic is horrific. Head and tail lights are a must-have on an urban bicycle. Flow directly integrates head and tail lights into the form of the bicycle, saving riders the hassle of buying, installing and maintaining the lights, whilst still staying in style.

Choice dilemma Choosing the right bicycle for your urban ride is often troubling. A fixie may be stylish and easy-maintenance but hellish when it comes to transferring. While a small wheel folding bike is just uncomfortable to ride. Flow is the perfect combo, with a 20-inch wheel Flow is a great ride, while the folded size is still compact enough for an agile maneuver.

Flow is a city folding bike. The quick and easy folding process and comfortable riding feeling give users a whole new city exploring experience.

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Product Design | Flow Concept Brief

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Product Design | Flow Features

Form of flow Having the head and tail lights is incredibly important for urban biking. Directly integrates head and tail lights into the form of the bicycle, saving riders the hassle of buying, installing and maintaining the lights, whilst still staying in sleek style.

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Product Design | Flow Folding Sequence

Unlock

Lift & Bend

Slide

Extra fold

Easy folding sequence The biggest feature of Flow is the new, quick, and easy folding sequence. Three easy and motion-continuous steps: unlock, lift and bend, and slide to ending the folding process. An extra step makes the bike even smaller. (Folding animation in QR code)

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Product Design | Flow Folding Sequence

First : Unlock Push the orange button, then the bike is unlocked and become foldable.

Second : Lift & Bend Lift the down tube through the top tube gap and it will be attached with the seat tube. And bend the head at the same time.

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Product Design | Flow Folding Sequence

Last : Slide Then slide the seat tube and down tube together with the slide clutch in the top tube, and the wheels will be parallel and attach together because of the magnet.

Extra fold You can also make your bike smaller by folding the top tube, handlebars, and pedals if necessary.

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Product Design | Flow Extra Feature

Airline Regulation: Total < 203 cm (length + width + height)

Inter-city travels When developing the concept of Flow, we thought since the target user, city explorers, want to explore different scenes of the city landscape, why can’t we help them and make inter-city traveling as easy as a transfer?

So we did.

Flow’s design takes every part of inter-city traveling into consideration.

The size of Flow’s fully folded mode is compact enough to fit some of the airline’s luggage regulation, so users don’t need to pay the extra fee which is extremely expensive.

With the use of internal gear hubs and hidden wiring, the bicycle can be directly packed without further protection. Users can fold their bikes up, throw it into the case and be off anywhere!

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Product Design | Flow Extra Feature

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Product Design | Flow Specification & Details

20inch tire

Inner-tube wiring

LED head & tail light

Battery slot (AA battery*3)

Foot brakes

Carbon belt drive

Interal rear gear hub

Folding handlebars & pedal

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Product Design | Flow Specification & Details

Integrated head light / tail light

Foldable handlebars / pedals

Parallel magnet-clipped wheels

Single-side fork / rear dropout

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Product Design | Flow Scenario

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Product Design | Flow Scenario

Flow is designed for people who love to journey around the city with a bike. Through the research, we find that these users need and want to go on public transportation with their bikes. So our design makes the bike taking on subway or train easier and quicker. Flow let the city exploring experience be more comfortable and fluent.

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Product Design | Flow Design Process

Design Process A very solid process started with finding city bikersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pain points, then developed ideas with a lot of sketches and prototypes. For the concept delivery, we not only used rendering to visualize the idea but really built a full-scale bike which people can ride on.

We find that more and more people love to ride bicycle and travel with their bikes. But we also find that there are so many problems which bother users when they try to transfer. So we decide to have a deeper understanding of this and try to figure out what is the crucial pain point.

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Product Design | Flow Design Process

Interview

Darren

Ethan

Chen

Lin

/ student

/ student

/ expert

/ expert

“It’s impossible to bring my bike on the subway, it’s too big...”

“The folding process is annoying. It doesn’t need to be compact but should be easy folding...”

“The smaller wheels of the folding bike make the riding experience uncomfortable...”

“Just a shame I can’t get to other parts of the city without breaking a sweat...”

Folding bikes are emphasizing on how small the bike can be.

But the user just wants a simple folding process, which let he/ she can fold the bike with ease.

Many folding bikes use smaller wheel to make the bike smaller, but sacrifice the riding experience, which should be the most basic need for a bike lover.

The user wants to explore more places in the city with his/her bike, but the range of cycling is limited to around 5km due to physical constraints.

A regular bike is very hard to take on public transportation because of its size. Some of the public transportation even not allow people to bring their bike if it can’t be folded.

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Product Design | Flow Design Process

Ideation We develop many ways of folding the bike, try to design a new, quicker and easier folding sequence. We also try to give this bike a fluent and fast form, make people feel â&#x20AC;&#x153;flowâ&#x20AC;? not only by using it but also in the first look.

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Product Design | Flow Design Process

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Product Design | Flow Design Process

Prototype Making prototypes was the most interesting and helpful process. It was very hard to really understand how the mechanisms work with the only sketch, and CADing was taking too much time. So when we came up with a new idea, we quickly built a prototype, discussed with the model, and modified it immediately. We not only made numerous scaled models but also built four full-scale prototypes. Full-scaled prototypes helped us for testing the usability and realizing how did the bike look like in the real world. This was really excited when we touched and rode on our fullscale bike, even it was only made from cardboard.

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Product Design | Flow Design Process

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Product Design | Flow Final Delivery

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Product Design | Flow Final Delivery

Full-scale final model We thought that only full-scale model could represent the idea, and let people truly feel Flow. Making a full-scale bike was very difficult, but we still insisted on it, spending a lot of time and efforts to bring our idea into reality. Although the result was not very successful (it was fragile because of the material), the model still could ride, folded and showed the concept clearly in the final exhibition.

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Product Design | Flow End

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Product Design | Flow End

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Design for my city - Tainan.

“Can we do something for our city?” was the question me and my teammate asked ourselves before this project get started. Tainan is a city in southern Taiwan, where also our university located in. This city is famous for its amazing traditional food, and the stories behind the dishes are quite fascinating, too. We made this set of tableware which was “very Tainan”, hoping to intrigue people to explore this city by the aesthetic design.

Product Design | Shi Shi Background

Ancient capital - Tainan Tainan is a city in southern Taiwan which is famous for its delicious food. The traditional food is amazing in Tainan, the background stories behind the food are quite fascinating, too. We want to design a set of Tainanese tableware which is aesthetically pleasing and heritage, hoping to attract more people to visit this city, enjoy the wonderful food and the stories behind it.

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Product Design | Shi Shi Tainanese Tableware

We extracted the elements of traditional tableware, combined with modern aesthetic to create four heritage but new Tainanese tablewares. The tail of each tableware is detachable, it can be a tableware rest. We also designed a hexagonal bag (accord with our visual identity) for carrying these tablewares, a pamphlet which introduces the traditional food in Tainan and a packaging which lets this set of product feel premium.

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Product Design | Shi Shi Tablewares Design

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Product Design | Shi Shi Bag Design

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Product Design | Shi Shi Pamphlet Design

Inside the pamphlet is the information of Tainanese food, including the flavor, history and vendor location. We want people not only enjoy the delicious food but also indulge in the story behind it.

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Product Design | Shi Shi Packaging Design

This tableware set can be a really nice gift for people who visit Tainan and be fascinated with this city. We carefully designed the packaging to create the premium unboxing feeling.

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Product Design | Shi Shi Design Process

Design process We started with understanding the traditional food, history, and culture of Tainan. During the research, we found that the shape of the traditional tableware was so interesting, and the way of using them to eat traditional food was quite unique, too. In the end, we selected four traditional and representative tablewares and started to redesign them. Before developing ideas, we made a mood board which contained the pictures of traditional elements and modern aesthetic. It made us clear about what feeling we wanted to create in this set of the product. In order to find the perfect shape which was both beautiful and useful for the tableware, we also made a lot of prototypes and modified the models many times to make the form right. Not only making the tableware, but we also spent much time for designing the tableware bag, introducing pamphlet and packaging. We wanted to make this project very completed, and let this tableware set be the best product representing Tainan.

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Product Design | Shi Shi Design Process

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Product Design | Shi Shi End

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Product Design | Shi Shi End

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For beauty, and for safety.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can we do something for the vulnerable by design?â&#x20AC;? was the question which made this project happen. Through design, we wanted to keep victims of sexual assault away from danger, and at the same time increased the safety of the entire society. During this project, we also put a lot of efforts into making technology be invisible in a piece of daily and beautiful jewelry.

We want people to wear the product normally and confidently, and if the situation is critical, it is also a device to protect them and save their life.

Concept Design | Reen Background

User pain points & Design objectives

Staged Report

Information transmiting

Secretly SOS

Evidence providing

Users often view “reporting to the police” as a very serious thing, hence they wait till the last minute. However, in that case, victims often barely have the chance to call for help. If victims can and are willing to call for help in the earlier stage, chances of escape or being rescued are drastically enhanced.

When sexual assault happened, victims often are either panicky or unconscious, making it very difficult for police to locate the victim or criminal even if the victims were able to reach out. Accurate location information would be extremely helpful for rescue operations.

From our interviews, the police officers tell us that calling for help in front of the offender is extremely dangerous, chances are high that the criminal gets irritated and this will only worsen the situation. Allowing victims to secretly call for help is a crucial point to rescue them from being raped.

Lack of evidence during the investigation is often the biggest obstacle when it comes to sexual assault cases because victims typically want to wash their body and don’t report immediately; most sexual assault cases are reported 3-5 days after the incident, and evidence is gone by then.

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Concept Design | Reen Concept Brief

Reen : A smart ring saves the vulnerable from being raped

Track

Count-down

Report

Collect data

Public safety map

Reen is a ring-like device that aims to save the vulnerable from being raped. Reen is connected to usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phone, allowing it to call for help the instant anything happened and at the same time collect evidence by recording audio. At any crime scene, calling for help usually irritates the criminal and worsens the situation. Reen lets its users call for rescue in stages secretly, silently, in just moves of a finger. After each cycle / each incident, if the users are willing to provide information (anonymously), Reen collects them. This builds up a database, then reflects in Reenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public safety map. This allows app users to avoid potential danger and informs the police where high criminal rate areas are to nip public safety issues in the bud.

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Concept Design | Reen Features

How Reen system works :

Track mode Press and hold the button on the ring, Reen will share your live location with your “emergency contact”. Once let go, the system proceeds to the 30-second report countdown. (this can only be canceled on user’s phone)

Alert mode In an emergency of life and death, pressing the button three times (or more) in a row will direct the system to a 10-second report countdown.

Ring vibrates when counting down, to inform the user that the ring is ready to report. (30-10 sec countdown: intermittent vibration / 10 sec countdown: continuous vibration)

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Concept Design | Reen Features

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The microphone will be turned on and record the sounds.

Reported The instant the count-down ends, the system will report your live location to the police and your emergency contact and the ring starts audio recording as a move of collecting evidence.

Collect data After each incident, Reen asks for some qualitative information about the incident. Through this data, Reen builds up a community safety database.

Public safety map The collected data are presented as a public safety map. This allows app users to avoid potential danger and informs the police where high criminal rate areas are to nip public safety issues in the bud.

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Concept Design | Reen Specification & Details

Wireless charging The ring is compatible with wireless charging, which means there is no charging port on the product itself, so its form can stay intact and keeps the aesthetic.

Waterproof Considering the use of daily life, the ring is made waterproof, so users donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to take the ring off in any situation what so ever.

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Concept Design | Reen Specification & Details Aluminum

Wireless charging battery

Bluetooth module

Flexible circuit board

Microphone module

Bottun module

Inside technology The top side of the product is thicker in order to embed the battery and two microphone modules. The Bluetooth module (for internet connection) and the button module are each on one side. The wireless charging coil is all-way-round inside the ring.

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Concept Design | Reen Scenario

For beauty, and for safety Technology should be invisible in a piece of daily and beautiful jewelry.

Reen let people wear the product normally and confidently, and if the situation is critical, it is also a device to protect them and save their life.

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Concept Design | Reen Scenario

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Concept Design | Reen Design Process

Understand more than just users Just understanding our users isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough; there are three groups of people involved in the scenario, victims, police officers, and criminals. We did research, distributed web surveys and interviewed for both our users and police officers, trying to thoroughly understand our three groups of people.

Observe the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reaction In order to understand users reaction when facing danger, we built a TV booth to simulate the situation of walking on the streets alone at night. One of our groundbreaking discovery was that all of our subjects tended to hold or clench onto something when they were nervous and feared.

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Concept Design | Reen Design Process

Wear a jewel not a device One of our biggest challenges was: how to let users naturally want to wear the device. We discovered that most people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that such a nightmare would happen on themselves and some even claimed that disabling weapon wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessary unless they were sure that they were in danger. Hence we defined our goal as to design an appealing piece of jewelry (with technology embedded) that users would naturally do and want to wear it every day.

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Concept Design | Reen End

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Concept Design | Reen End

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Can design solve engineering problems ?

This is an industry and academy cooperation project. The goals in this project are both developing a new manufacturing process and solving the strength issues of nowadays helmetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior structure. The challenge of this project was that I had to deeply understand the helmet industry first, then tried to not just modify the old one but designed a whole new manner to manufacture the helmetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior structure.

Industry X Academy Cooperation

Task : Solve manufacturing and strength issues of nowadays helmet interior structure

Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure Background

Dilemma in helmet industry Nowadays helmets basically have three layers: a hard outer shell, impact absorbing liner and comfort pad. Inside the impact absorbing liner is usually styrofoam. Because styrofoam is flexible but not strong, this layer needs to be very thick to bear the impact and protect humans’ head. The factory I worked with was trying to make the helmet stronger and thinner. They added a honeycomb-like plastic structure into the impact absorbing liner, so ideally the helmet could endure more impact with a lighter and thinner form. However, after many strength tests, they found this way didn’t work. Here were the problems: first of all, because the structure had to be fit with human’s head, and it was basically a hemispherical shape, it needed 6 or more sliders for plastic injection. This type of mold was extremely expensive, and the yield rate was incredibly low. Secondly, because of the limitation of draft directions, hexagons on the structure were not able to be all oriented towards the center, so the structure wasn’t at its strongest. Making the structure thicken could add the strength of it. But at the same time, the structure would become too hard and wouldn’t be able to absorb the impact. So the impact would directly exert on users’ head and cause severe injury. This manufacturing way was totally wrong. No meter how accurate the mold was or how hard the structure could be, limited draft direction still let the structure easy to break, a solid structure still wasn’t able to disperse the impact. The goal of this project wasn’t modifying the old structure but designed a whole new process of producing a strong and manufacturable helmet interior structure.

Hard outer shell

Impact absorbing liner

Honeycomb interior structure

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Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure Project Brief

Original interior structure manufacturing process Helmet structure manufacturing usually contains three steps: 1. Build a plastic honeycomb structure with injection molding. 2. Set the honeycomb structure into EPS(styrofoam) injection mold. 3. Mold styrofoam within the honeycomb structures. This manufacturing strategy has its problems, which are about manufacturing cost, durability, and Impact absorbing issue (explained clearly in next page).

Plastic inject a honeycomb structure

Set structure into EPS injection mold

Inject EPS with structure

New manufacturing way : Flatten the structure Unwrapping and flattening shapes is the main origin of this idea; Because the material of the structure is ABS or PP (types of plastic), which is flexible, it can be molded as a flat honeycomb structure first, then shape it into a hemisphere and inject styrofoam within it to fix the shape.

Plastic inject flat honeycomb structure

Shape it into hemisphere

Inject EPS with structure

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Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure Nowadays Problems

Manufacturing issue :

Design Solution

High defect loss A mold for the hexagon structure has six sliders, making the cost really high, and the 6 slits between 6 sliders create too much deviation. As a result, the yield rate of production is lower than 30%, which isn’t ideal.

Strength issue :

Wrong direction Considering the limitation of draft angles, honeycombs weren’t able to be all oriented towards the center, hence the structure wasn’t at its strongest.

Impact absorbing Issue :

Injure directly Thickening the structure adds strength to it but at the same time making it so hard that it won’t be able to disperse impulsive force, causing injury.

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Unwrapping and flattening shapes is the main origin of this idea; Because the material of the structure is ABS or PP (types of plastic), which is flexible, it can be molded as a flat honeycomb structure first, then shape it into a hemisphere and inject styrofoam within it to fix the shape.

Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure Design Solution

One direction mold release Instead of molding a sphere, molding a flat piece has a lower cost and higher yield rate, which raises productivity.

Larger draft angle The draft angle of the flat honeycomb structure is way larger than the original one (which is about 10 degree). This feature lets the mold very easy to make and incredibly reduce the cost.

Perpendicular force bearing After shaping the flat honeycomb structure into a sphere, all hexagons are centric and confronts forces perpendicularly, which is a much stronger and protective structure.

Flexible transform space Instead of the solid structure, having spaces between each honeycomb that are filled with styrofoam creates some degree of flexibility which can better disperse force and protect the head.

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Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure Design Process

Research and ideation It was very struggling at the beginning because I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worked in the helmet industry and had never tried this type of project before. What I tried to do was looking for the reference of structure ranging from product to architecture. The breakthrough point was, I saw a DIY paper earth product in a book store, I was so surprised and inspired that a piece of simple paper(which was also easy to produce) could still be shaped as a sphere.

I started to think that flattening the honeycomb structure would make it easy to manufacture. And shaping the flat structure into a sphere, all hexagons would naturally be centric and confronts forces perpendicularly, so the strength problem would be solved as well.

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The original concept was from the paper DIY earth.

Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure Design Process

Prototype and test Making prototype and testing were the most helpful and important parts throughout the design process; every time I came up with a new structure or pattern arrangement, I printed the model immediately and quickly modified my idea. The most interesting prototype was the one with tenons. I made three special tenons on the hexagon, so the hexagon could be jointed to each other. Since the structure was easy to shape, this design could let the manufacturing process faster. (but the engineer said the structure would be very difficult to manufacture, so this idea didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be chosen)

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Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure End

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Manufacturing Development | Helmet Structure End

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Plastic bag is more environmental friendly.

Using a plastic bag seems to be harming the environment. But if we take the system perspective and see the Life-cycle-analysis diagram, compare with other kinds of bags, plastic bags are actually more environmental-friendly because it costs less material, less distribution and has better duration. The problem is from peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usage, the over-wasted habit cause a great amount of plastic trash which burden our Mother Earth. This exhibition was not telling people to stop using the plastic bag, the thing we need to is reusing bags, the plastic bag is the best choice for our environment.

Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Exhibition Flow

Exhibition flow

Use plastic bag widely !

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Paper bag or plastic bag ?

Notorious plastic bag

Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Exhibition Flow

Use, Re-use ?

Break the stereotype

Take action from now on !

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Exhibition Contents

Venue entrance look.

Use plastic bag widely !

At the entrance, visitors can see a large poster with a shocked slogan: “You should use plastic bag widely.” This strong and clear slogan not only catch people’s eyes and attract them to enter the venue, but also the main message we want to tell people in this exhibition.

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Exhibition Contents

Paper bag or plastic bag ?

People may think paper bag is more natural and environmental-friendly, using paper bags will not harm our Mother Earth. However, that is totally a myth.

Producing a paper bag requires more material, more process, more truck for distribution, and worst, more pollution to the environment. Versus to plastic bag, it costs very less in the manufacturing process and distribution.

Resource

Material processing

Product manufacturing

Distribution

The material cost of paper bags is 400%1000% that of the plastic bags.

Throughout the material processing stage, paper bags produces 70% more hazardous waste compared to plastic bags.

Producing a paper bag requires 4 times the energy of manufacturing a plastic bag.

It needs 45 trucks to transport paper bags while the same amount of plastic bag only requires 1 truck.

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Exhibition Contents

Notorious plastic bag After letting visitors know that plastic bag is more environmental-friendly in the life cycle assessment, we showed the biggest problem of using the plastic bag, which was that people were too wasteful, and discarded the bags too easily, so our earth couldn’t afford so much plastic junk. In Taiwan, such a small island, it still uses up over a hundred billions of plastic bags in just one year. What a scary number it is!

Use, Re-use ?

It corresponds to the poster “You should use plastic bag widely.” at the entrance. The message we actually want to tell people is “re-use plastic bag widely”. Plastic bags cost less in the material acquisition, manufacturing process, delivery times and so on, the only problem is overusing, so why not reuse it?

Play with the exhibits Rather than only showing the pictures and statistics, letting visitors can play with the displays which creates a more profound and joyful experience.

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Exhibition Contents

Break the stereotype The biggest concern of using plastic bags is the durability and its look.

In the exhibition, we showed that the plastic bag could carry three times heavier stuff than the paper bag, and its waterproof feature made it unstainable and unbreakable. Not only the great usage, but we also created a fashion gallery to show the beauty of the plastic bag. With aesthetic design, the plastic bag could also be a fashion bag or accessory.

Take action from now on !

In the exit, there was a curtain with a slogan: â&#x20AC;&#x153;On your mark, get set, go!â&#x20AC;?. This means that when visitors go out of this venue, they should start to reuse the plastic bag.

We hoped that people were not only knowing the importance of reusing the plastic bag but also took action and started to care more about our environment, making the change truly happen.

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Venue Plan & Design

Venue overview

Paper bag or plastic bag ?

Notorious plastic bag

Use, Re-use ?

Break the stereotype

Take action from now on !

Entrance

Exit

Use plastic bag widely !

Donation & Gift stand

Poster

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Fashion gallery

Interactive display

Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Venue Plan & Design

Venue planning In order to maximize the venue for displays and keep the smooth and comfortable visiting experience, we designed a U-shaped traffic flow, and separated the space into four areas which showed Fact, Problem, Solution and New Knowledge in the order, clearly transmitted the message of “reusing plastic bag” to visitors.

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Separate the venue

Final set up

Can See Them All

Create the flow

Venue details Safe!

Safe!

Since we had a lot of stuff to show but the venue was very limited, each display was closed to each other. The way to avoid visitors seeing through the whole venue was adding walls, but we still wanted to keep the openness of the space. Our solution was hung oblique posters on the ceiling to separate the venue and hid the displays when visitors were not at that spot yet.

The poster was thin and light, it wouldn’t make space feel solid or crowded. And the oblique arrangement created directions, leading visitors to go through the exhibition in the right way.

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Set Up Process

Venue set up Although the exhibition hall was small, and the exhibition looked quite simple, we still spent two whole days for setting up the venue. We not only had to create the contents like designing the visual identity, printing posters, planning the layout and making models but also needed to clean the space, built hangers, hung curtains and so on. The setup process was incredibly exhausting and time-consuming because we only had four people, it was really a heavy workload. But when we finally nailed it, that feeling of achievement was unspeakably amazing.

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag Exhibition Duration

Exhibition duration The exhibition duration is on June 2 and 3 (only on weekends because we all had class in weekdays). We established a Facebook and Instagram fan page and had promoted this event a month ago. We made laser-cut gadgets for simulating visitors to promote the exhibition. Visitors could get one by tagging our fan page on Facebook or Instagram. Although the effect was not very prominent, we still had over one hundred visitors in two days. The thing made us so proud was that people had a great time in the venue, and some visitors even told us that they started to reuse plastic bags because of our exhibition! We were very glad for seeing something really change in the world, even it was very little.

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag End

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Curation | Reuse Plastic Bag End

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Experience IDEO Shanghai Internship

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Experience IDEO Shanghai Internship

IDEO Shanghai Internship JUL - SEP, 2018

This was my first internship, I was very lucky to join IDEO Shanghai and work with many great designers. In these two months, I participated in various projects ranging from design proposal to industrial design, my role was usually to help the team to visualize ideas or build models. The knowhow is very different in different types of project, but the principles are the same: “Work smarter”, “Communication” and “Story telling”. I tried to dig deeper into these principals and practice them as much as possible, not only in this internship but also in the future.

Work smarter

Communication

Storytelling

The first lesson I learned was: How to work smarter? Following Senior Designers in the project is very helpful to me, as I observed that they were always aware of their goal, purpose and working efficiency. I used to act without thinking, and waste a lot of time doing things that were not truly helpful to the result. During this internship, I corrected my bad habit and practiced how to do great work with high efficiency.

Team working is incredibly important in IDEO. A key point for a successful team discussion is effective communication.

During this internship, I learned a lot of communication skills from IDEOers, and I tried my best to communicate my idea clearly with my teammates, always mentioned my thinking logic and the reasons.

This is helpful for me to lead an effective team discussion when I back to school.

During the two months, I learnt a lot of story telling skills from IDEO’s shares, presentations and proposals. How they express ideas that are not only clear, but also touching and vivid. During my internship, I always take the time to prepare for my shares, practicing the story telling skills I learnt. Thank IDEO for letting me do these shares, I appreciate all the feedbacks from them, as it really helps me improve my skills!

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2. Working through a night without sleep...

3. I was always in the factory making stuff.

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Experience Circular Material Workshop

Circular Material Workshop DEC 12-15, 2018

The topic of this workshop was to explore the circular material. I had a very hands-on and intense experience during the 4 days. Our assignment was to create a useful and new material which also environmental-friendly. I did many experiments to find great combinations of the ingredient which could be used in architecture. The main goal of this workshop was not about coming up with a brilliant idea or creating an innovative material. It was about trying, making mistakes, and keep learning from the process.

Just try it !

Learning from the process

Before this workshop, I had no idea about the material experimental process. I was ambiguous and anxious at first and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how could I do if I was not familiar with the material. But after I started to experiment, I found that the material transformation was very unpredictable, nobody knew what would happen without trying it. So, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think too much at first, just try it!

Keep recording the process and writing down the formulations during the experiment are incredibly important. The note would help a lot for modifying the formulations and comparing with each test. So I made little note cards for my team to clearly record the information of each test. It not only helped our team to remember the formulations but also let us see the shrinkage after the models were dried.

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Experience Circular Material Workshop

Our idea : Green installation in the city Our idea was an art installation built in the city center which let people stay away from the noise, busy and pollution for a moment. Because we used paper pulp, leaves and sands to be the main material in each brick, so the wall can be soundproof, and have a very natural smell. The shape of the brick was designed cleverly, which could be easy to stack and build the installation. The value of this idea was that this green installation was made by 100% green material which was also reusable. It created a piece of nature in the city but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t increase the burden on the environment.

Holes inside the structure make it soundproof.

The special shape makes brick easy to stack.

The brick can be mated in other directions.

Experimental process

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2. Blend the material together.

3. Press hard to make the structure solid.

4. Sand and leaves are nice additives!

5. A lot of testing models.

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Experience Tokyo iSchool Workshop

Tokyo iSchool Workshop DEC 19 - 24, 2017

This was a very unique experience. I flew to Japan to participate in this workshop, worked with Japanese students at Tokyo University. It was hard but very interesting to collaborate with people from different countries or different backgrounds because they can always bring a very different perspective or opinion into the team. We sparked many cool ideas during the brainstorming. I had a great time and learned many things from this amazing journey.

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2. Using act to story tell our idea.

3. Team discussion.

4. Me and my Japanese teammate!

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Culture shock

Team working

Design methods

People from different culture have quite distinctive design styles, the mindset and thinking are also very different, too. My teammates, who were Japanese, were very considerate, they could dig a phenomenon through to detail, which was very helpful when the team was defining a problem.

It was quite challenging at first because everyone said different language from their professional field. Trying to let them focus on the same thing was very difficult.

But after understood each other’s point of view, we started to have a very effective discussion and sparked many cool ideas.

Design methods really helped us to stay on the same page and build ideas on ideas. It gave us direction and objective, so the team could reach the goal step by step. These methods provided a common “language” for us and made collaboration easier and more organized.

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Experience ICPD Design Workshop

ICPD Design Workshop SEP 25 - 29, 2017

The topic of this workshop was to design for the city where my campus located in - Tainan. Since the students from other countries didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know much about Tainan, we got started to travel around the city. After the research, we found that riding bikes was the best way to visit Tainan.

At the end of the workshop, we delivered a concept of a smart bike system, which created a better experience for foreigners to visit this wonderful city.

Planning

Walking

Place to go

No suggestion

Exhausting

Unfamiliar with Tainan

Taxi

Scooter

T-bike

Expensive

License required

Not enough bikes

Seek problems We found some problems when we tried to make a plan for visiting Tainan. First, because not all of us familiarizing Tainan, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any idea about where to visit. And when we finally decided our journey, we faced another problem: how to get there? The only way we could choose is by taking a taxi and walking on foot. The weather in Tainan was extremely hot, we all felt exhausted after the day. Therefore, we decided to design a new manner and system about touring in Tainan.

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Our idea : Smart bike system The map in the App will give locations and suggested routes for the new or experienced users to explore various parts of Tainan. For bike renting, the main bike station that will hold most of the bikes plus lots of smaller bike stations spread out in the area for availability efficiency. To stimulate user exploring as more attractions as possible, there are different stamps at each bike stations. Users can collect the stamps and get a special gift in the main bike station. The more stamps you have, the better the feedback you would get!

My reflection The biggest gain in this workshop was the experience of collaboration with people from different countries. It was very interesting to see very different perspectives and points of view about design from them, this really pushed me to think about what design means to me and means to my culture. Also, met so many talented people let me realize that I should work harder and harder to become a good designer!

1. Bring my teammate to a barbershop.

2. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;nailed final presentationâ&#x20AC;? smile!

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So, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next ?

After these explorations, I think the power of design is that it is able to create new values for people. People are the starting and ending point of every design. Based on the key that I realized, I will focus on the relationship between human and objects; I hope to create the product that people love and can develop a strong connection with. I will devote my whole efforts to this challenge, and implement my belief of designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value.

Andy Cheng

Email | chengandy861011@gmail.com

Phone | +886-975268334

Website | https://www.andychengdesignportfolio.com