Monday, October 14, 2013

Midphase consultation

Tutor: Tom
Today was critical as it was my last chance to show my design and service to tom. He found my power point presentation was well thought through and was displayed nicely. My main focus was to get the system map sorted as it is a vital part of the service design. Tom said it was good and well thought through. The consumer side was well detailed but he wanted almost the same amount of detail for the behind the scenes as the consumer side. this i will work on. It will be hard to fit this on one a3 page so i will see how this goes. I ran the design of the pods past Tom and we discussed material choice. root moulding PE and steel where the two choice. I have decided to go with Roto moulding as you can still get a quality finish and it will be much cheaper to produce and to maintain with gravity and cleaning. The large size of my pods was another issue which i have decided to explore. I am now going to split the pods up and connect them through a central spine which will house the air-conditioning unit and the central power source. Lots to do but looking forward to getting it all done.

Matt Patane and Alex Jackson:
I discussed my design with Matt and Alex with both of them asking about material choice and the large mass of the pods. With them i discussed the singular pods with the spine and they agreed it was a much better option. I also ran through my user interface with them and they made suggestions on how i could improve the layout and which steps things should appear in. this was very helpful.

Other Tutor: Mar
Listening in to Mars conversations it seemed that most people had the same problems. These were that the service side was not up to standard on not thought through with the product and service they are addressing. From this though of some new way to continue the ongoing service that is needed for my pods. Especially the cleaning and maintenance and what that involves.

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