CONCEPTS + DESIGN
CARS ARE BORING
Undergraduate Senior Design Project
Our modern daily vehicles look extremely alike: shapes, colors, materials, and features all blend into one immense achromatic mass on the roads. Why do our current cars look the way they do? CARS ARE BORING is all about exploring and developing the exterior design of daily vehicles.
With this project, I suggest alternative designs for car owners and enthusiasts who like to stand out and prefer owning and buying new cars. I am designing for people with a strong desire to see a bigger variety in colors, shapes, and other visual features that affect the exteriors of our vehicles.
The Meower
Undergraduate Design & Fabrication Project
Going into the project I had no prior experience with speaker parts or knowledge of how speakers worked, so this was all very new to me. The Meower was a challenging, yet a very interesting project that I really enjoyed spending my time and effort on. First part of the project was spent researching and testing various speakers and speaker parts, figuring out what I wanted out of my future speaker, and putting together an idea of what that future speaker might be. In my case, I wanted a system that would be loud, made me feel the bass, yet also crisp on the high end, so I decided to go with a massive 12” subwoofer and two 3.5” full range drivers.
The second part of the project involved ordering proper parts and materials, testing them out, and finally building the final model. I used the CNC to cut the cat face out of a MDF board, calculated optimal volumes of the driver enclosures, made the enclosures, and finally put it all together. After some sanding, gluing, drilling, sanding again, spray painting, peeling off tape, installing amps, and doing some final wiring, The Meower was complete.
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Now The Meower is the best speaker I own.
Vapor Helmet
Undergraduate Design Project
Vapor Helmet is a futuristic device designed to protect its user from the harsh environment caused by climate changes. The helmet is created with a dystopian mindset, assuming the continuation of environmental change and minding potential needs of people in the twenty-second century. Basic features include protection from intense UV radiation, poor air quality, and skin dehydration.
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For this project, I created a story and a persona, designed the helmet according to the user's needs, ideated and iterated a solution, modeled the final design in CAD, animated and rendered it, researched materials and necessary components, made a manufacturing plan including a BOM, and calculated manufacturing costs.
Sobaka Solar Harness
Undergraduate Design Project
The objective of this project was to create a product that collects solar power, fits the NIKE brand, and satisfies the needs and desires of a NIKE customer. Sobaka Solar Harness is a solution for people who love to be active outside with their pets.
For this project, I have found and interviewed a NIKE consumer who also owns a dog, pinpointed their pain points, mapped the user's storyboard, ideated solutions according to the user's needs, sewed the product out of available during the pandemic materials, iterated and adjusted the design based on user tests, delivered the final prototype, and tested it again.
