LETO
Integrative Product Design
Project Overview
LETO - Integrative Product Design
Bonnie Jiang | Product Designer
Sho Kawabe | Business Analyst
Jingyu Li | Product Designer
Megan Nesbeth | Marketing Manager
LETO is a one-handed trash system allowing customers with disabilities to take care of trash with more hygiene and convenience.
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Background
The project is a cross-disciplinary experiential product design. A cross functional team comes to design and manufacture a fully-functional consumer product, design and cost out its manufacturing process, place it in the context of a larger business proposal, and compete with their product against other student teams in an economic market competition.
Design challenge - create a one-handed solution to what has traditionally been a two-handed task.
Research & Synthesis
Primary Research - Bodystorming
One teamember engage in daily activities with one hand, while the rest of the team observe and record findings. This process of brainstorming allows us to truly put ourselves in the perspective of the users.
Primary Research - Rapid Prototyping
The team also perform rapid prototyping to explore potential problem area. The team members pass each other’s prototype around and modify on the previous design. The goal of this activity is not to build functional product, but to explore all kinds of possibility.
Affinity Diagram
We recorded our interview results on post its and categorized them. Then we generated insights based on the interview findings.
Concept Tests
We organized our ideas into a matrix of tasks requiring strength vs. tasks requiring many steps.
“I don’t know why they [garbage can and garbage bags] have been separated for so long.”
Conjoint Test
Persona
Prototype and Iterations
Final Product
We improve the design and reduce the mechanisms involved. We also changed the color of the final product to match the needs of our persona.
