Using “handling collections” of products to
support designing, creativity and innovation!
Part 2!
Kay Stables!
29 September 2015
Creating an inspirational handling collection
!   All products have embedded design information that can use to help
design thinking.
!   A well-chosen ‘handling collection’ can
  familiarise learners with ideas, concepts, artifacts, issues within the
context of a task;
  create understanding of how aspects of a product works;
  inspire learners to explore the unexpected, novel, provocative; think
the unthinkable; step outside the box;
  help learners unstitch a concept from a product that they can apply
in an entirely new and innovative way;
  provide a source for creative inspiration
Step 1: Identify critical features of the design
challenge
Context / Scenario / Clients
!   Young children, teenagers, adults and senior citizens with certain medical
conditions often need to carry one or more pills around with them during
the day. They need to remember to take these at the correct time.
Challenge / Brief
!   A manufacturing company wants new ideas for pill dispensers. They
require attractive and imaginative designs that solve the problems of:
  containing and carrying the pills;
  filling the container and dispensing the pills;
  producing something that is easy to use and desirable
Containing and carrying
contents visible?
carried on the body?
Multiple compartments?
a concept that can be exploited?
(Re) filling and dispensing
easy to fill?
easy to dispense?
mechanical dispensing?
multiple shapes?
Easy to use & Desirable
easy to convey information?
attractive to a child?
easy to wear?
attractive to a teenager?
Step 2 Review the possibilities
!   Make sure the product won’t get in the way of design thinking, e.g.
  provide too stereotypical a solution that will stop learners thinking
outside the box;
  be so attractive the learner will want to copy;
  be too expensive to provide;
  be too dangerous or delicate to provide
Reasons for NOT including …
too much a solution?
too complicated?
too obvious?
too desirable?
Your challenge …
In groups of 3, create a collection for the brief you have been given.
  Step 1 Identify the critical features of the design challenge to be addressed
  Step 2 Identify some possible products to include
  Step 3 from the selection available choose
  3 items that you would include - and be ready to explain why
  3 items that you would avoid - and be ready to explain why
Design Brief 1
Body Storage
A Fashion Design Company has recognised a niche in the market for a new concept in carrying
small personal items during a night out clubbing. As a member of their development team you
are to present your ideas. During a night out clubbing young people need to carry various
things - for example they might carry: phone, lip gloss, small amount of money, tissues, key
…..
A new concept in carrying small, personal items on the body during a night out is needed.
  It has to make a fashion statement as well as being functional.
  It could be concealed, camouflaged or hidden.
  It has to be something you have never seen before.
  It could be worn around the leg, across the chest, around the head, from the ears, on the feet
etc.
  It cannot be a hand carried item.
  The product must be made mainly from textile materials
Design Brief 2
Olympic Movements
A chain of sports shops wants to attract customers to buy products from them for the 2012
Olympics.
The 2012 Olympics is an important sporting event. Many products which are related to this event
will be sold in sports shops. To attract customers to buy these products from it’s own sports
stores this particular chain of shops has decided to create an eye-catching shop window
display.
They want the display to have moving parts that will be controlled, and that will catch people’s
attention as they walk past the window.
  The display needs to be creative, different and attract attention
  The display must have moving parts
  The parts should generate movement which is fascinating to watch
  The display could promote a particular product related to the Olympics, or a range of products,
or the event itself
  The display must include a simple structure to enclose moving parts that may be dangerous
Design Brief 3
Gimme the Money
A charity wants to make it easier for school pupils, who are raising money by being sponsored, to
collect their sponsor money. The charity has decided to develop a container for the pupils to
collect the money in. They want the container to make collecting the money more secure and
more fun for the giver
The container should be:
  big enough to hold £5 in mixed coins
  able to expand as it has more money put in
  used for one collection only
  cheap to make
  able to be collapsed flat for sending through the post to the school
  easy for the collector to assemble without tools or glue
  allow money to be put in but not removed by the giver
  use a security system to show that the container has not been opened
  reward the giver for putting money into the container
Using “handling collections” of products to
support designing, creativity and innovation!
Part 2!
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