Our Blog

Read about our design process, dilemmas, decisions and inspirations in our weekly posted blog

Jun 24, 2023
1 min

Demo Pitch Triumph, Component Enhancements, and Film Progress

This week was filled with significant milestones and progress for our team! The highlight of the week was our participation in a demo...

Jun 17, 2023
1 min

A Week of Filming, Breakthroughs, and "Goal Setting"!

We had an incredibly exciting week filled with noteworthy achievements and collaborative efforts! The week commenced with a productive...

Jun 10, 2023
1 min

Research, Scriptwriting, and Technological

Hey there! Welcome to our weekly blog update. We've had an exciting week packed with presentations, scriptwriting, and technological...

Jun 3, 2023
2 min

Weekly Project Update: Advancing Towards the Final Product

Greetings, everyone! We're back with another exciting weekly update on our ongoing project. Over the past week, our team has been hard at...

May 27, 2023
2 min

Enhancing User Experience and Performance: Fine-Tuning Our Mobile and Stationary Devices

We've spent the past week fine-tuning our mobile and stationary devices in preparation for an upcoming print run. Our main focus has been...

May 21, 2023
2 min

Driving Progress: Usability Testing, Object Development, and Project Film

This week marked significant progress as we continued our efforts in usability testing, object development, and concluding the project's...

May 13, 2023
2 min

Building Better Objects: A Week of User Testing, Design Tweaking, and Photographic Documentation

In the past week's project, we have continued working on our main objectives: the stationary object and the mobile object. For the...

May 6, 2023
2 min

From Concept to Reality: Our Mobile and Stationary Devices Transform Goal-Setting!

Over the last week, we made significant progress in our development of the mobile and stationary devices. We successfully created an...

Apr 30, 2023
4 min

The first 3D Printed iteration of Tastebud is here!

Following testing multiple interactions for our users - sliders, potentiometers, joysticks and clickers, we finally have a WINNER! Our...

Apr 15, 2023
2 min

Slider vs. Potentiometer vs. Clicker: The Battle Continues

In the last few weeks we conducted around 20 user tests on four different objects: the slider, the dial, the potentiometer, and the...

Apr 3, 2023
1 min

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

Last week, we conducted eight usability tests, out of which five were performed using a slider and three using a dial. Participants were...

Mar 25, 2023
2 min

Starting our Iterative Design Process

During the exam period and semester break, our team conducted two usability tests for our paper prototype with two picky eaters. The...

Jan 21, 2023
1 min

Paper model

Our team met this week to work on a paper model of our IOT object in the lab. After much deliberation, we came up with the idea of...

Jan 14, 2023
2 min

Figuring Things Out

Following on from last week, this week we also deepened and developed our thinking towards the creation of our product, while paying...

Jan 7, 2023
1 min

Speed Mentoring

During the last week the Speed Mentoring event took place. Our mentors raised several crucial questions about our product, which also...

Dec 31, 2022
2 min

Solution - #1 version

For the past few weeks, we have been brainstorming and developing a solution to help people gradually add new foods to their diet. To...

Dec 17, 2022
1 min

Solution Brainstorming #2

In class, we discussed how a personal assistant to a picky eater would look like during a typical day. We gave our picky eater a specific...

Dec 8, 2022
2 min

solution brainstorming #1

During the past week, in which we made the first presentation of the research and exploration process that we have carried out so far as...

Dec 3, 2022
1 min

Empathy Map

After last week we presented a class presentation in which we showed our "how might we" question, we left with several points to go over...

Nov 26, 2022
1 min

Presenting Our Need

This week, we dove deeper into picky eaters. we researched the disorder further, and learned about the behaviors associated with picky...