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portfolio RUI LU
ABOUT ME
Rui Lu
Email: rui.lu0623@gmail.com Phone: +18 18036397687 Ability
Design research
Business strategy
Concept generation
Conceptual design
Prototyping
Form
Handcraft
3-D modeling
Mechanical engineering
Ergonomics
Robust design
Interaction design
Education
strength of my abilities which leads to my choice for further study
other basic design abilities I have gained during my experience of studying in industrial design program
Sep 2013 - Jul 2017 Xi`an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, Jiangsu, China BEng Industrial Design 2013 - 2014 Progression scholarship-University Academic Excellence Award Among Top 5% in the current degree program
Experience 2013 - 2014 Tennis club of XJTLU Public relation head Jul 2015 - Sep 2015 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow project hold by XJTLU Principal investigator
I AM INTERESTED IN
CONTENT (01, 02, 03 are the
01
PATIENT MOVI Product design P06 - 17
02
HONOR THE D
Anthropology resear
Problem solving
Chinese culture
Nature
P18 - 31
03
MOBILE PAYM
Academic business r P32 - 39
most representative projects)
ING DEVICE
DEAD
rch
MENT CONVERSION
research
04
07
Experience design
Handcraft
FOOD STORE
BAMBOO WORKSHOP
P40 - 45
P56 - 57
05
08
Product design
Conceptual design
LIKE A CRANE
SHOPPING MALL
P46 - 51
P58 - 59
06
09
Handcraft
Robust design
PENHOLDER P52-55
ROBUST DESIGN P60-61
01
PATIENT MOVING DEVICE
An effort-saving device for doctors and nurses to transfer pregnant women in the hospital. Concept generation, Mechanical engineering, Prototype, Testing, Story board, 3D model Oct 2014 - Dec 2014 Group work
PROBLEM Pregnant Women- Heavy
Doctors and Nurses- Lack Efforts
Doctors and nurses in Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics are most women, who often lack efforts
Doctors and Nurses- Get Injured
Transferring pregnant women is tiring for doctors and nurses, making their backs hurt and hands shake, which has bad impact on the surgery.
USER RESEARCH User
Stakeholder Nurse
Pregnant Women1 caesarean birth
Being a nurse, i really want an equipment to help me transfer the patient to save effort. However, the management does not think the equipment is worthy paying, because labour force is always cheaper than the products.
There are 3 times of transfer before and after the surgery. I feel so scaried and surfered at that time that I just want the surrounding to be quiet.
Doctor
Pregnant Women2 natural birth
Sometimes I will shake my hands without control after helping transfering a heavy patient before the surgery, which have bad impact on my performance.
There are 2 times of transfer after the surgery. I feel relaxed after giving birth to the child safely.
ORGANIZED USER NEEDS Must have save efforts
save time
Attractive feel safe low cost
clean
easy to move
easy to store
feel calm
Neutral comfortable feel warm
CONTEXT no anesthesia, patients move by themselves no anesthesia, move by the help of the medical staff anesthesia, move by the relatives of the patient together anesthesia, move completely by the medical staff
Moving process
Hospital Bed
Patient Trolley
Operation Table
Our product intends to focus on the specific patient transfer process from the operation table to the patient trolley, since it is the only process that have to be done by the staff.
MARKET RESEARCH Perceptual Map analysis Blue Ocean
Our Product
Effortless
Our product intends to target at Chinese mass market, where patient trasfer equipment is supposed to be effortless and with low price.
electrical patient trasfer equipment
our product
High price
Low price
patient moving sheet
move by hands
Strenuous
IDEATION
1. Conveyor belt
2. Shovel board
4. Sliding structure with a droping down board
3. Flexible rotating shovel
5. Moving structure with a piece of sheet
PROTOTYPE
To test the 4th idea, 1:2 prototype
1
The dropping down process is not user-friendly
To test the final idea, 1:2 prototype
2
The upper frame is too thick (15cm), thus too heavy Blue foam board: not easy to cut straght Legs are too long to be stable for a model
1
To test the final idea, improved 1:1 prototype
3
Cut the legs to make it more stable.
2
3
SIZE (unit: cm) 650
82 maximum increasing depth of abdomen of pregnant women
600
1900
208 + - 20 abdominal extension depth (50th percentile)
1800
650 - 895
800
Patient trolley
Operation table
800
0 200
72
0
20kg * 22 hooks
700 100 1200
weight of female(kg)
Ergonomics
210
57
%
Patient moving device
USAGE SCENARIO Before using our product
Using our new product Blue disposable sheet Sheet of the product
I have performed 7 operation today!!! I`m exhausted and don`t have strength to move the patient after the operation by hand.
Come here and help us move the patient!
You never know how much we staff want to have a device to save effort of moving patient!
The operation is finished
1 The operation is finished
2 Hang up
3 Move to the patient trolley
4 Take down
5 Remove
6 Move to the ward
TESTING Potential user 1
Doctor
I`m worried about the device`s hitting my body especially when I feel painful. Also, I feel stressed when the structure goes over my head.
It would help us. But it seems to occupy too much space.
Safety issues, stressed
Not easy to store
Potential user 2
Nurse
I am worried about dropping off from the sheet because a piece of sheet and hooks might be easy to break. It is also make me feel emotionally cold.
It is generally good for the staff. However, the structure might be too heavy if it is made by steel.
Safety issues, cold
Not easy to move
How to improve Structure: foldable
Material: lighter but with higher strength and stablility
Aesthetics: more user-friendly, softer and warmer and matches well with the operation room
INITIAL DESIGN - FINAL 1:1 PROTOTYPE
Steel
IMPROVED DESIGN (FOR STRUCT
TURE PART) Aluminum alloy with titanium lighter with higher strength
Curved lines soft, organic and suitable for women
"Medical blue" make patients calm match the using environment
02
HONOR THE DEAD (in progress)
An environment-friendly way for Chinese young generation to honor the dead in the future. Anthropology research, Culture, Social issue Sep 2016 - Jun 2017 Individual work, Final year project
INSIGHT Chinese traditional way of honoring- Burning paper money At burial ground, funeral room, grave (often in the dead`s hometown) at cross road or by river (away from the burial place) Festivals (Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Spring Festival) After dreaming about the dead Family members
Problem
Air pollution
Fire
Traffic jam
Damaged city image
TREND
TARGET USER
Paper money change
Replicates ancient strings of copper cash
Replicates modern commodity
Turn to be a burlesque
Social change
Living environment (higher density)
Educational level (higher)
In the 70s
Currently
Family size (smaller)
Chinese young genera Chinese young generation of only child generation).
MISSION To provide an environment-friendly way for the Chinese young generation (2030 years old) living in developed cities to honor the deceased in the future without losing the culture meanings and with rich experience.
Environmentfriendly
ation 20-30 years old living in developed cities (The
Honor the deceased
Chinese culture
Rich experience
PRODUCTS ON THE MARKET
Traditional way
Memorial hall
Comment area
Select offerrings
Pay for offerrings
Online-honoring Chinese Tsingming Website could be an example, being one of the most representative honoring platform supported by the government and supervised by Chinese Funeral Association.
CULTURE MEANING
Family(Confucian)
Etiquette(Confucian)
With strong hierarchy Value filial piety
Value etiquette
Yin world exists
Ludic spirit
Believe Yang (the living`s) World can communicate with Yin world, respect the ghost
Colorful paper money shows ludic spirit of Chinese people
TO BE CONTINUED
03
MOBILE PAYMENT CONVERSION STRATEGY
Developing potential strategies to start up mobile payment conversion in highly saturated markets with alternative payment systems Theoretical analysis, Business, Infographics Jul 2015 - Sep 2015 Collabarative research project between the staff and students (SURF project) Principal investigator of the team
04
FOOD STORE
Experience design for a gourmet food store Business strategy, Experience design, Innovation Oct 2016 Individual work
WHAT DO WE PROVIDE Oh! These chicken legs look nice. but what dishes I could cook using these? What other food ingredient do I need to cook the delicious dish?
Scan the chicken legs (AR Technology)
黄焖鸡
小鸡炖蘑菇
Chose one of the recommend dishes using chicken legs as main food ingredient
Guiding map to plan the routine to get the food ingredient needed for the chosen dish
Shop efficiently
COOKING WORKSHOP
Guidance for cooking delicious and beautiful dishes Beautiful packaging for sharing food with others Get good relationship with neighbours
SEASONAL RECOMMENDATION
MATCH INGREDIENT RECOMMENDATION WITH GUIDING MAP
05
LIKE A CRANE
A single light sculpture Form, Chinese culture Oct 2015 - Dec 2015 Individual work
INSIGHT A new lighting system for celebration is required
Next year XJTLU wants to introduce a new lighting system in the campus to celebrate its 10 years existence.
Through observation, the small square is seldom used. Few people go through the square or have a rest there.
SA
SB
SC
SD
Chosen location of the new light sculpture
The light is decided to locate in the center of the quare to make it more attractive
FB
CB
CONCEPT
University’s motto Light and wings
University`s logo the Liver Birds
International joint university with modern style architecture
Red-crowned crane
A typical symbol of Taoism, which represents wisdom and lofty ambition in China. Echoe the school motto, showing XJTLU wants to guide students to become wise.
IDEATION
It is 10 meters high and creates a peaceful and mysterious atmosphere. Similar to the impression the red-crowned crane usually gives in Chinese tradition.
Paper prototype
PATTERN & MATERIAL
3-VIEW DRAWING & PLACEMENT
Pattern
Chinese Wanzi Never Ends (represents good luck)
Surface Material
White-washed American Pine
Construction Material Acrylic
In daylight, Crane looks very light and elegant with hollowed-out patterns.
At night, Crane gives white light with shadows as Chinese pattern on the ground. Also, red color, which is a symbol of the red-crowned crane, contributes to creating a feeling of celebration.
06
PENHOLDER
A penholder with a name card holder Handcraft, Form May 2016 Individual work
INSPIRATION Water splash
“Layers” for Glas Italia, 2015.04 -Shelf designed by Oki Sato
Sketch
PROTOTYPING Material
Initial dimension
Blue acrylic
Improved dimension
Transparent acrylic
Manufacturing method
Laser cutting
Assembly principle
Press fit
Having reduced the overall dimension to avoid the penholder`s bei form naturelly follow the function.
ing overdecorated and make the
Initial prototype
Improved prototype
07
BAMBOO WORKSHOP
An one-day collaborative bamboo facade design workshop for material library of the university (helped by professional handicraftsman) Handcraft, Concept Nov 2016 Group work (collabrate with an archetecture student)
Rhythm of light
The bamboo facade is designed to play with light and shadows. Light go through this facade create irregular shadow, which will be like the one from bamboo forests. The arrangement of horizontal bamboo pieces resembles the growth feature of the living bamboo (the leaves become denser from the bottom to the top of bamboo). This facade will be built in material library of the university afterwards.
08
SHOPPING MALL
A short workshop of conceptual design for a shopping mall. Conceptual design, branding May 2016 Group work
Rock lives in mountain, Falls down to water, grows into Pebble. You were born with keenness, Come upon the stage, Learn to be Mild. Pebble-“Edge to Round”, you-"naive to mature" Come to Mild City, Enjoy the Best "You" In Chinese culture, people were taught to be a gentleman （君子）. There is an old saying in China,“谦谦君子， 温润如玉”, which means gentleman are supposed to be mild. Thus the logo adopt Chinese painting element including font and color.
09
ROBUST DESIGN
Using robust design method to help amateur to create a piece of Suzhou embroidery in short time with relatively good quality Robust design, Chinese culture May 2016 Group work
Suzhou Embroidery - representative traditional Chinese craftsmanship -hard to learn
Create orthogonal array using control factors and let 1 beginner to embroider based on it
Let 10 professional Suzhou Embroidery practicers rank these 9 embroidery on the scale of 1-10 Goal: help beginners to create a piece of Suzhouo emboidery in short time with relatively good quality.
Control factors needle type tightness of cloth diameter of line number of stitch
After data analysis and confirmation experiment, we suggest beginners to use: 12C needle, 8.5mm space of the frame, 4 wires and 1 stitch
THANKS RUI LU