When my partner, Kyle, and I were given the assignment to design a product that would protect an egg from a drop, we first decided to make it cheap and easy to use. Due to limited supply, we had to think of what we could find around campus to avoid going shopping. Kyle has Styrofoam and bubble wrap with him and we decided to use the two materials to protect the egg.
Afterwards, we discussed what we were going to use to store the egg. Kyle has a small cardboard black box about the size of a small tissue box and I had a wide Ziploc container. We tested the Ziploc container first. After stuffing the Styrofoam and bubble wrap into the container, we realized there wasn’t enough room and figured the container wouldn’t prevent the egg from breaking from impact. We tried to black box and since it was lightweight and lightly-dense, we figured it would reduce the force of the impact. We decided to use the black box.
When we tested the design on Wednesday, it failed and we were disappointed. I thought the visceral design was excellent. When customers would look at the product, they would assume it is a compact, lightweight device that can effectively protect an egg from a drop. As it succeeds in the visceral aspects, it suffers from the function aspect.
After experiment, I thought of two ways that could improve the function of the product. First, the product needs to fall slower. In order to do that, we need to create air resistance. Another way to improve the product is to enlarge it in order to reduce the amount of force applied to the egg.
Overall, I thought it was a fun project to do and learned a lot from it.
Here is the link to Kyle’s blog:
http://kylecasadei.blogspot.com/
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