Chih-Ting James Cheng Portfolio

Chih-Ting James Cheng Product Design Portfolio Tel: (+1) 415-755-8861 E-mail: ccheng2@cca.edu

About Me Education

Work Experience

Using minimal design to give people maximum surprise

Hi, I am James. I believe that design can make people’s

lives better. By focusing and observing details, our job is to develop insights to create better products. I want to use the skills I’ve learned to create designs with grace and simplicity that have great impact on peoples’ lives.

= Graduated from Shanghai High School International Division, May 2011 = Current Senior student at California College of the Arts Graduating in May 2015 = Internship at KangYang Atelier, Interior Design Company, Shanghai. (Summer 2013) - Assisting with building forms, materials in 3Ds Max - Editing sections in AutoCAD - Photoshop rendering images - Involving furinture, stands, and showcases design. = Internship at Pegatron/Pegacasa, Taiwan. (Summer 2014) - iPhone 6 case design - Market research - Sketch - Photoshop - Illustrator

Skills

= Design Thinking = Research = Modelmaking = Adobe Photoshop = Adobe Illustrator = Adobe Indesign = Adobe AfterEffect = Autodesk 3Ds Max = Autodesk MAYA = Rhino = Solidworks = Keyshot = Microsoft Office

Languages

= English = Mandarin Chinese = Taiwanese = Shanghainese

Contact

= Tel: (+1) 415-755-8861 = E-mail: ccheng2@cca.edu

Content Wii Print A 3D printer brings objects out from games

Leather iPhone case with multiple accessories

KICO A portable food grinder for small farms (with a video)

Others More projects

Wii Print

A 3D printer that brings objects out from games Connecting with Wii U, printing out prizes from games. Creating interactions between digital world and players.

Brand Research

User: kids How to create interaction between kids and printers?

Interaction between game and players

Nintendo is good at creating interaction between players and games. Main players are kids. 3D printer can create solid objects. What if we use 3D printer to bring objects out from games, in order to create more interactions?

User Scenario

User Tim 10 years old Love playing video games

Story Tim gets a Wii Print as a birthday gift. He finds out that once he accomplish a challenge in the game, he can print a piece from printer. After three challenges, he finds that these can be assembled together, like a puzzle piece. In the end he gets a Mario mushroom figure.

? ? accomplish a challenge

connect Wii Print and Wii U get assemble pieces from printer

?

?

more mystery prizes

Form Language

Friendly

Geometric shape

Playful

Minimal

Nintendo is good at using simple geometric form, to create a friendly and playful toy for kids.

Ideation

Final Design

Platform for printed prizes

Moving board, prize coming out

USB & SD card slot

Detail

X,Y,Z axis, motors. FDM system, easy and low cost

Filament cartridge, easy for kids to change by themselves

Design Purpose

Luxury

Function

Design a phone case not only have luxury style, but also have useful function.

Luxury phone usually use leather and metal as their material. Lots of phone case function nowaday are card holders, or stand. What if having a phone case using luxury material, and having multiple functions?

Ideation

Final Design

Card holder

Stand

Coin bag

Wallet

button There are four types of leather accessories. Card holder, conin bag, stand, and wallet. Each of them could be attached on the back of phone case by button. Users can customize their phone case depends on what function they want for that day.

Final Design

Card holder

Coin bag

- Holding credit card, ID card - Flexiable leather band holding earbuds

- Hidden zip, coins in the bag

Final Design

Stand

Wallet

- Using horizontally or vertically - Open two buttons on the top, folding down to create a triangular stand

- Three folds wallet - Metal piece holding cash, card holder on the other side

Group project with Tosca Zhou

Observation

Uncomfortable

Unfriendly tools

Inefficient

Rogers Rance recives food scrap every week.

In order to use these as composting, food will need to be cut into tiny pieces to composte faster. However, the process is not comfortable and efficient. How to minimize the process of grinding? And make it more efficient and more comfortable?

Ideation

Final Design & Scenario

carry grinder next to food bin

set on food bin

pull up extensionwall

dump food scrap in grinder

pull out handle

start grinding!!!

Details

two roles of blades

stands/blade protection

rubber front holding bin

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H8MtZQ99HA&feature=youtu.be

More projects

S cleaner A powerful vacuum machine

S.O.L

Rescue bracelet that tracks user’s location and detect user’s pulse Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j12OZ8_Xm1s

Thank You ccheng2@cca.edu 415-755-8861