IDEO CARDS

Learn: Cross Cultural comparisons

-Learn the different methods of hand drying (air, linen)

-learn the different methods of composting and recycling

Look: Tours

-Take a tour with the University of Oregon recycling program with a student employee and learn the process and time it takes to transport, distribute and sort paper products in order for it to become recycled.

Ask: 5 whys?

-Why should people recycle?

-Why do people choose not to recycle?

-Why aren't there recycling options in the bathroom?

-Why do people choose paper towels as their first alternative to drying hands?

-Why dont people compost?

Try: Role playing

- Reenact someone not recycling and observe the reaction of the other people around them. When given the option, will people recycle? will they feel pressure to recycle the same way people feel pressured to wash their hands when someone is watching?

PD 199: refined prototypes

my main influences for my initial prototypes were from mesh and perforated forms. coming into my final prototype time and experience became a big factor and restricted my products form. i had to stick to a design that was attached to a hinge instead of folding down like a fan. I also went with a maple leaf design because it was the most realistic project i could have produced in the amount of time i had.

PD 199: group documentation

After meeting with my group we decided that in all bathrooms there is a problem of trash on the floor and almost all trash cans are full of potentially recyclable paper products. potential design problems would be to solve the problem of news papers and paper towels that litter the bathroom floor. a solution for all the paper products that end up in the trash. As a group we were interested in the recycling and composting processes and maybe working with the universities urban farming class

PD 199: midterm

I made major improvements from my last 17x11 poster. i experimented with a wood grain theme and hand written fonts that i scanned. My reviews liked my rough style, described in my sketches but they felt a disconnect between my subject and the poster.
The most valuable information that i received from the critique was to go out and test the product to see how people react to it.

PD 199: prototype inspirations

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

PD: 199 Dividers

PD 199: Objectified

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

PD 199: sketches

-Bell helmet with noise, images and lights to provide comfort acting as a blinder and stimulator
-Urinal shelf/ blinder. can adjusted as a blinder and turned and used as storage and shelf space for your phone, jacket and coffee



-Urinal mega phone to communicate and promote talking in urinals avoiding all peeking
-Blinders that fold out in front of you. mirrors, reading materials in the inside
-Jali screens used in Easter Indian temples provide censoring with the proliferated design


-Pee games to distract and re creating the image using the urinal
-targets that move and swivel to evoke the sensation of playing

PD:199 Wanna be friends?

from my basic understanding of being a male and peeing in many public bathrooms during my day. many being in schools, concerts, honey buckets, football games, these areas seem to be the locations where i frequently experienced urinal psychology. when a large group of men come together in one meeting area things seem to change. the loud mouth sitting on the 50 yard line isn't barking his mouth, the smooth talker isnt charming up his neighbor and the kid with turrets is even keeping it down. the idea that you should do your thing and get out as fast as you can. yes, its a place to urinate and constipate but most men make sure to use their excuse mes' and thank yous sparingly.
today i saw a man in the bathroom reading the newspaper while he peed. he was a older man, 70s, tall, kinda wide, cosby sweater, slacks. a couple things went through my mind. how long have you been standing there? what are you reading? i wanted him to ask me something but he didn't... as i expected. there was no spell but i could tell someone was in the stall next to the urinal. i wait in the awkward zone ( the area where you wait when all stalls and urinals are occupied. this usually is next to the paper dispenser or behind the door. )
i watched the man read and pee, then he left, he kept reading as he pulled away and washed his hands. i looked straight at all the wall, i know my manners. old man finished. still no word. no initiation on either end, no eye contact, maybe a quick glance to signal that the urinal was free for me to use.
Elder left, i was finishing up my hand washing. the poop guy was getting out of his stall. he seemed to be quiet the entire time, no odor, no nervous farts or anything, i didnt even hear the toilet paper roll rattle. i did something that probably isnt on the list of urinal etiquette but maybe considered awkward in general. i looked back at him as he opened the urinal door, i didnt really expect anything, but i wonder how it would feel if he gave me a hey, or hows it going. maybe i would have felt uncomfortable...i probably would have.
they told me that things would change in college. but i guess some things havent

PD 199: urinals etiquette

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PD 199: design language

These are 3/10 pics for the week;y pics i wanted to share

PD 199: IDEO method cards

Learn:

-Activity analysis

-Secondary Research

-Cross Cultural Comparisons

-Competitive Product Survey

-Historical analysis

Analyzing, comparisons and surveys are effective tools to the learning process, it can help the designer to consider internal, external conflicts to developing a product. Past and current trends, social, cultural standards, styles, and past designs are factors in changing the end product.

Look:

-Shadowing

-Personal Inventory

-Social Network Mapping

-Day In The Life

-Behavioral Mapping

Observing the activities, mannerisms, habits, rituals, and needs of your target and potential market can help focus the products design. through observing you are able to learn the tendencies of the people through how they naturally act and find valuable and important.

Ask:

-Draw The Experience

-Extreme User Interviews

-Conceptual Landscape

-Survey and Questionnaires

-Word Concept Association

Asking and questioning allows the designer to focus on developing specific design problems. In other cases, this process can reveal information that can not always be achieved through a formal questioning process. Informal and experimental ways of gather information of provide value information from the customer that can not be reached through formal interactions.

Try:

-Behavior Sampling

-Be Your Costumer

-Experience Prototype

-Quick and Dirty Prototyping

-Scenario

Taking risks and learning from your mistakes early on can save a product from failing and trouble shooting later on. Trying allows you to weed out the mistakes and discover what works best and what doesn't work. Prototyping allows the designer to experiment and see the reaction of the public to the product, that information can then be used to make changes and refine the product before it is finalized.

PD 199: urinal comfort

290

188

Urinals in 188 are about the same distance from each other as the urinals found in the starcase near 290, but the urinals in bathroom 188 do not provide enough privacy because of the scoop shaped bowl. The scoop shaped bowls leave the person fully exposed to their neighbor. The urinals in 290 provide two buffer walls on either sides to prevent side splash and well as blinders for security and comfort. 290 urinals allows you to walk up to and "fit" into the urinal.

PD 199: urinals

I was researching different types of urinals and fell upon a website that specializes in urinals. it has a large selection of shapes, sizes and forms from all over the world at www.urinal.net/archive/CoolInstallations.html

these are a couple of my favorites:

PD 199: Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

PD 199: Behaviors.

Rituals: common courtesy. bathroom etiquette between men involving vacant and occupied urinals.

Needs: privacy from noise, smell, wondering eyes. spacing between urinals, stall doors

Habits:hand drying. paper towels vs. air power. double paper, one paper to touch the handle or door and another to dry.

PD 199: poop

piss, pee, taking a leak, urinate, pass water, relieving oneself, number #1, wee- wee, piddle, drizzle, poop, shart, shit, mudbutt, crap, duce, number #2, dump, blowin it up, turds, doo doo, dookie, drop one, poo, poo-poo, depositing, soil

inappropriate, disgusting, personal,private, gross, nasty, natural, instinct, smelly, dirty, unsanitary.

its the feeling when you eat a whole 555 pizza from dominos, the damming sensation when you finished a 40oz. it all depends on how it hits you and where. wake up late to have your morning poop, youre going to be walking around all day wishing there was a open ten minutes where you can just poop in peace but you wont and you can take a peaceful poop in a public bathroom. you hold it in and your stomach starts to churn your beer shits into a solid boulder of pain and fire.
i like to call them my nine lives. the farts that lead up to the most painful or most satisfying poops. first fart is just a fart, then the second and third follow right after, a light goes off in your head and you are thinking, "warning, i need to poop...maybe?" you dont poop you just keep on with your day. 4,5, 6 , stomach pains and nervousness start to kick in, but you are most likely composed and functional, slight danger of sharting pants (depending on the types of farts 1-3 were, it is almost predetermined) farts 7, 8, 9 are the farts you know you can hold back, you know what to do.
you can gamble, take a risk, fart those two last farts and leave the last one for insurance. Two things can happen, poop your pants (sharting, doo doo butter, poopy pants,mudbutt,) or you can relieve your stomach of all that nasty gas and achieve instant gratification. its your choice. in most cases no one ever sacrifice the last life, before they are able to find a bathroom adiquate to your standards in the moment, but the pain and fear leading up to that majestic or miserable poop have haunted me since the 3rd grade.
beyond the fear of pooping your pants is the fear of using public bathrooms. what if sam walks in just as i finish and all they can think and say to me is, "wow, you really blew up this place?" i would be embarrassed and my dad would be ashamed and my girlfriend would break up with me, and my brothers would buy a dozen donuts split them up three ways and give my share to the cat. I dont care if there are toilet seat covers (i think they are bullshit) im not pooping in a public bathroom.