IDEO Video Summary

In the IDEO Deep Dive video, the designers try to explain to the viewers the process of new design. They try to take things that are poorly designed and redesign them into products that work better for the same price or cheaper. IDEO has designed everything from the squishy handle on your toothbrush to the mechanical whale in Free Willy. 
They get into groups when redesigning a product and come up with as many ideas as possible because you could base a legitimate idea off of a crazy idea and they put them up on the wall for everyone to see and then they go from there to get a fresh idea.

Hanger Interviews

Questions

1. How often do you use it?

2. What is wrong with it/ the problems?

3. What do you use it for? What clothes?

4. What do your hangers look like?

5. What material is your hanger? Why?

6. Which hangers do you hate?

7. Do you care about the appearance of your hangers (Color/style)?

8. How many times do you but hangers?

9. Why do you replace them?

10. Besides clothing, what other functions do you use it for?

11. Do you have hangers for specific functions?

Interviews

Rod, Male, 18

1. "Everyday, my clothes are on them."

2. "It bends and it's cardboard. It cracks under pressure."

3. "To hang shirts and jeans."

4. "Wire, and cardboard."

5. "Cardboard cause I found it."

6. "These kind."

7. "No, I do not care."

8. "Never, my mom does."

9. "We don't unless they break."

10. "I unclogged our shower with it."

11. "No..."

Mom

1. "Everyday. I'm the only who does laundry around here."

2. " The bar is cardboard. The lining is peeling. I hate the cardboard! And the wire is too thin to air-dry shirts and stuff."

3. "Pants, but the hanger is bent."

4. "Plastic, wire, thick plastic, and good wire."

5. "Wire and cardboard"

6. "Wire and cardboard"

7. "Yes"

8. "Once"

9. "Only when they break or my kids take them."

10. "Belts, purses, scarves. I unbent the wire one time to reach behind the dryer."

11. "Round bottom for belts. Large shoulders for suits. Pants with the clips."

Dad

1. "Once a month."

2. "The clips. I like to roll my pants over the bar."

3. "Dress shirts and pants."

4. "Plastic tubes for pants... wire for shirts."

5. "Plastic and metal cause they are sturdier."

6. "Ones with clips."

7. "No"

8. "Never"

9. "They break..."

10. "Get into car, unbend to wire a leg of a grill together. Unfold to use as wire."

11. "Belts"

Danielle, Female, 18
1. "Everyday"
2. "They don't swivel"
3. "Clothes, belts, some purses"
4. "Blue, plastic. Some have like yarn on them for slippery shirts."
5. "Plastic"
6. "Ones without the little indentions"
7. "I like the colored kinds."
8. "once"
9. "If they break or I want new colors."
10. "Hot dog and marshmellow sticker."
11. "Belts and pants."

Dieter Rams and Don Norman Responses

Dieter Rams


The ten principles of design mentioned in the article  are all very true about design. Then after looking at objects more closely I begin to realize that most objects without most of the ten are not good quality or worth taking a second look at, like some of the objects I chose did not fit into the "good design" category.

Don Norman


Don Norman talks about design that makes us happy but may not be useful. It may be pleasing to the eye, fun, or pleasant but it may not work or be good design. But he is focusing on how to make design fun. In photography, the picture may look fun and please the eye but it needs to be good design and fun to make you happy.

Scissors Are Good Design Statement

The scissors I have chosen are useful, understandable, and unobtrusive. They are long lasting. They have little design as possible but just enough to make them work and last for a long time. Since they are ‘kid’ scissors the cutting part is not as sharp as some scissors and the handle is pink. Made perfectly for a little girl in kindergarten. All these principles are just right for a good design.