Portfolio 2023

Yiming Wang

Industrial Designer & CMF Designer 2023

Hi, I am Yiming Wang:

Gentle Pusher Collaborator Communicator

Industrial Designer & CMF Designer

CONTENTS.

A fresh breeze to the current coffee machine market.

The bathing ritual with multisensory and playful magic.

A portable atmosphere light.

Your outdoor working station on a electrical bicycle.

Madii 44–56

FENESTRA 31 –43

TiLTY 01–15

GAIA 16–30

Tilt the rules.

TiLTY

A fresh breeze to the current coffee machine market.

Team: Jiehao Yan, Zhening Wang, Yiming Wang. (Duration: 12 months)

There are 150 Million daily coffee drinkers in US alone. Half of them are females.

Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee every day. 85 % of Americans have one cup of coffee minimally at home.

Women made more economic decisions than men.

70% – 80%

Women made This number reach up to

50%

74%

of all consumer purchasing decisions. after the age of 55.

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It is time to meet females’ aesthetics and needs.

When looking at the current espresso machine market, we see a lots of cubes and squares, stainless steel, sharp edges. It is time to consider women’s need since they have stronger purchasing power and influence.

Most of the existing coffee makers are muscular.

Avoid absolute cubics, and make it fun to use.

Avoid

absolute cubics, and make it fun to use.

Fit under the cabinet, and conclude everything.

Our team iterated TiLTY’s design through multiple prototypes. We wanted to make sure that the espresso machine fit under the kitchen cabinet and to ensure other coffee utensils have their places.

Prototypes of the espresso machine and its docking tray.

Porcelain with soft metallic. Feminine and quiet luxury.

CMF trends and inspiration from everyday objects.

Although TiLTY started as a female-oriented product, we still wanted to utilize CMF to convey different manners. The three colors respectively express female, male and neutral manner.

Tactile inky black. Firm and stable.

Three colors, because we care about everyone.

Muted denim blue. Neutral statement.

TiLTY gives you bean-to-cup coffee.

See everything in the front.

During the market research, we found out that many water tanks locate on the behind of the espresso machine. Our team want TiLTY to be intuitive to use, so we made sure that our user can control every step. The grinder is also the switch of the machine.

Water tank Water Milk Coffee beans

Frother Grinder Coffee bean tank

Rotate grinder to turn on the machine.

Select your favorite mode, and start brewing.

TiLTY have preset modes for your customization.

In order to give our coffee lovers options to choose from, we selected five popular coffee drinks and preset the appropriate brewing temperature into TiLTY.

SCAD generously gave us an open budget to build a 3D-Printed model.

My contributions:

Contextual & Primary Research, Market Analysis, Research Feedback

Affinitization, Sketching Ideation, Rapid Prototyping, Digital Modeling, Digital Model Rendering, CMF Trend Research, CMF Test Rendering, Product Animation, Real-sized Appearance Model-Making.

© 2023 Colin Gray, All rights reserved. Drawings and designs

GAIA

Your bathing ritual with multisensory and playful magic.

MFA Thesis Design: Yiming Wang.

(Duration: 12 months)

Besides Cleaning and Toilet Relief, we do so much more inside of the bathroom.

• Playing with Phones

• Shaving

• Getting Ready & Glamming

• Reading Books

• Singing

• Doing Spas

So much more......

Homeowners wanted to change their current bathrooms.

Top three motivations of bathroom renovation.

According Houzz, 2021, Home owners want to change their bathrooms for multiple reasons. On the top shows the top three motivations of bathroom renovation.

People’s Ideal Bathroom

Experience: Sanctuary.

Luminous & Abundant Different A Sense of Lighting

Tactility

Relax & Peace

People’s Ideal Bathroom Experience: Social.

Bathing and playing with

Spending romantic times with Kids Dogs Significant Others

Bathing

People’s Desired Bathroom Experience Diagram.

A simple way to conclude what people want for their bathrooms

Combining the secondary and primary research, it is obvious that people perceive the bathroom beyond its utilitarian purpose. They see it as a place of retreat and sociability. As desigenrs, we need to blend sensory engagement and functionality to create a sanctuary and social bathroom environment.

Incorperate multisensory design into bath or shower experience.

The scale-down prototype and the three views drawing.

A 3D-printed prototype, along with a set of three-view drawings, is utilized to validate the design.

In order to validate the design, I created a scaled-down prototype and a full-size set of three-view drawings for user-testing.

Motor Box Water Pipe

Light Ball (Water Toy)

Showerhead

Meet GAIA

Indulge yourself in the perfect blend of sensations and playfulness.

Light Ball Grip

Freestanding Bath Tap

GAIA Elevation Control

Water Taps

Lower the showerhead with GAIA Elevation Control.

The showerhead can be elevated up and down.

Utilize the elevation control to adjust the showerhead to an appropriate height to pull off the ball easily.

Showerhead Elevation Control

Turn on the showerhead to enjoy the shower.

Use the left showerhead tap to turn on & off the shower.

Showerhead Tap

The showerhead is operated by the left tap, while the right tap controls the freestanding water tap used for filling the tub.

The ball can be used as a light.

The ball can be pulled down and float on the water.

Tap the Light Button to turn on and off the light.

Light Button

The ball can be used as a water toy.

The ball has a water pump inside. It can pump water from the tumb and used as a water toy. Use the Water Toy Button to switch between three water toy modes.

Water Column

Water Spray

Water Mist

Water Toy Button

Three color options inspired by well-known brands.

BetteAir Antonio Lupi Snijder & Co

My contributions:

With the assistance of my MFA thesis committee members, I executed the whole design.

Committee chair: Paul McGroary.

Committee members: Chunshik Kim, John Morris.

Millennial renters are in no hurry to buy houses.

There are over 50% of the millennials are home renters in big cities such as NYC, Austin and Seattle. Nearly 20% of the younger adults are not interested in owning a home.

Skyscrapers are blocking the sunlight.

Lightings in the rent houses all look the same and generic.

The high-density skyscrapers are taking away the sunlight and the afforestation. Oftentimes, millennials usually get neither natural nor emotional lighting products when they rent houses.

Millennial renters need a break from nature.

Nature is luxurious in big cities.

Thus, our team started design thinking: How can we bring the natural joy and green relief into millennial renters’ apartments through light products?

Your serendipity in the concrete forest.

Window is th e the inspiration for us. Natural light cast volatile patterns into the rooms according to the plants outside. Our team do not want the product to be too literal like a window. Thus, we iterated the frame form, and carefully designed the wireless charger.

Inspired by windows.

Proportion and scale matter.

Size and form iteration

We thought the frame was too bulky in the first place, which will grab the attention when the projection is on. After that, we slimmed the frame and iterated the rectangular proportion.

Merge with your memories.

According to our research, the millennial renters tend to hang decorative drawings and family pictures on the wall. FENESTRA will merge into their fabulous memories naturally.

How to use FENESTRA.

Power buttons on the top. Laser projectors at the bottom.

Tap left or right to switch between projection or emissive mode. You can clasp FENESTRA on the wall with the cutout on the frame.

There is a built-in laser projector located at the bottom of

FENESTRA.

Each FENESTRA comes with 2 rechargeable batteries.

In order to keep the neat appearance of FENESTRA, we decided to use rechargeable batteries as the power source. The batteries can be recharged by FENESTRA wireless charger.

2 Batteries ensures stable power.

My contributions:

Contextual & Primary Research, Market Analysis, Sketching Ideation, Rapid Prototyping, Digital Modeling, Digital Model Rendering, Construction & Inner Electronics Layout Explosive Design.

Madii

Your outdoor working station on a electrical bicycle.

Team: Yiming Wang, Yangming Zhang, Yefan Liu. (Duration: 3 months)

People work about 90,000 hours in their lifetimes.

From 2019 – 2022, remote working is expected to grow by 77%. 60% of the employees are willing to work remotely completely after the pandemic. Companies save hundreds millions of dollars a year from reduced office space costs.

Besides traditional office, working outdoors is also an option.

People are starting work with more freedom even after the quarantine.

The working mode will become more remotely even after the pandemic. 55% of companies allow remote working, 16% of them are being fullyremote. With being able to work remotely, people can choose their working spot. They can even travel while working.

Why not make working more delighted?

Conforming to our target audience, 30 – 45 years old employees:

“Personal Computer or digital tablet are our must-haves so that we could work smoothly. We need a working surface, a seat and power source if we are going to work outdoors.”

Of course, people need extra support.

A Seat Power Source

Working Surface

Meet Madii Work freely, cheerfully, and “madly”

Work while you are on journey.

We need to compact the seat, a working surface and a power source into Madii. It started off as a chubby backpack, and gradually became slimmer, stabler, and more compacted electrical bicycle.

Prototype during the Pandemic.

Pandemic did not dampened our passion for prototyping.

Our team managed to model Madii with cardboard, and we downscaled the digital model accordingly. It is also a great opportunity to practice social distancing while prototyping!

Working Surface

Working surface in a scroll.

The handle inside contains a leather scroll. Pull the scroll out and attache it to the another side of the handle. Voila!

The tension of the surface allows you to place your electrical devices.

Madii Supports you.

Up and Down, Stop and go.

Madii has paddles at the front wheel. Whenever you need to stop and see the view, or use the working surface, lay down the paddle to balance Madii. Lift the paddles up to continue your journey.

Madii’s Power Source

Removable battery

Battery + Charging Port

Madii has a detachable and rechargeable battery on its front. In order to ensure the continuation of your working experience, Madii also include two type-c charging ports as well as the bike’s charging port.

Type C charging ports

Madii’s Charger

Dash board + A place for your bottle.

Staying hydrated is the foot stone of staying focused and active. Madii has a built-in cup holder to place your favorite beverages. Dash panel locates in the middle of the speed control handle. Rotate handle to adjust riding speed which will show on the panel.

Monitor the speed, and don’t forget to stay hydrated.

Dash board Cup holder

Speed control

My contributions:

Contextual & Primary Research, Market Analysis, Sketching Ideation, Rapid Prototyping, Digital Modeling, Digital Model Rendering, Construction & Inner Electronics Layout Explosive Design.

Thank you!

I love working with people.