Design of Food Packaging Containers for Indian Railways

Total passengers travelling in trains everyday = 1,80,00,000 (18 million)

The above is total number of passengers which includes local trains, short distance and long distance.

Assume that 15% of travelers buy food in the train.

Thus no. of passenger buying food = 27,00,000 (2.7 million)

Thus approximately 3 million food packages are required everyday

And 3 million is quite a big number to cater..!!

There can be many solutions. Here is one.........

Designer: Parag Deshpande
Guide: Asst. Prof. Manas Ranjan Mishra
M S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies.

Radical Design

This good looker designed by Maximilian Busser & Friends is surely a collector’s item as has been designed especially for those who would like to own a masterpiece. The overall technology is based on Horological machines which tell time. The machine is designed and constructed in unlike the traditional wrist watches and hence are revolutionary. This version called as Horological Machine No.3 has been introduced in two versions : “Sidewinder”, with its cones perpendicular to the arm; and “Starcruiser”, with its cones in-line with the arm. Each has its own very distinct visual characteristics; each offers its own unique angle on telling the time.

[Source: http://www.tuvie.com/horological-machine-no-3-radical-watch-design-by-maximillian-busser-and-friends/]

Three ways that makes a good design happy - Don Norman

Good products gets appreciation is not just because it is good at Design but the type of link that it actually bridges more than its style, look or by function

Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy

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Karthik TD

QLOCKTWO

Image Ref.: http://www.qlocktwo.com

QLOCKTWO Clock by Biegert & Funk, Germany tells the time in a unique fashion. QLOCKTWO spells time !!! The award winning QLOCKTWO is available in five different languages and five different colors. It comes loaded with other features like automatic summer/winter daylight-savings time, automatic adjustment to ambient light, manual brightness control, low energy consumption due to LED technology, etc.

For more info, visit http://www.qlocktwo.com

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Design process

Different organizations have adapted their own style of innovating products.
Key Milestones in design process are :
- Know Your Audience
- Analyze User Tasks
- Build Prototypes
- Observe Users
- Guidelines for Conducting User Observations
- Making Design Decisions
When making design decisions regarding features in your application, it’s important to weigh the costs, not all of which are financial, against the potential benefits. Every time you add a feature to your application, the following things can happen:
• Your application gets larger.
• Your application gets slower.
• Your application’s human interface becomes more complex.
• You spend time developing new features rather than refining existing features.
• Your application’s documentation and help become more extensive.
• You run the risk of introducing changes that could adversely affect existing features.
• You increase the time required to validate the behavior of your application.
Choosing appropriate features and devoting the needed resources to implement them correctly can save you time and effort later. Choosing poor feature sets or failing to assign appropriate design, engineering, testing, and documentation resources often incurs heavier costs later when critical bugs appear or users can’t figure out how to use your product.
The following sections present several additional factors to take into consideration before adding features to your product.
Avoid Feature Cascade
Apply the 80 Percent Solution....read more on following links...

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGDesignProcess/XHIGDesignProcess.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002718-TPXREF114

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Karthik TD

World is your Pallette : MIT's IO Brush

MIT's "I/O Brush", allows you to paint using the world as your pallette,excellent innovation...take a look at the video below :

Water can

The thirst of drinking filtered water brings the design of lager water cans. The weight and the shape of the can create problems in lifting and fixing the same to the dispenser. The thicker plastic seal is temper proof upto certain level, but its not so easy to remove. Here is a proposed solution for the larger water cans.

Design by: Mr Madana Gopal
Guided by: Asst Prof Manas Ranjan Mishra