Lead UX Designer
SMART HEAT
Smart Heat was a solo Industrial Design project which I completed as my major work at UTS.
Despite substantial advancements in technology and science, the design of commercial cooking utensils remains largely unchanged. Due to the significant costs associated with workplace injury and food poisoning within the industry, at $57.5 billion and $1.2 billion annually in Australia alone, there is evidently a strong need for improved utensil designs which provide greater temperature feedback, are more hygienic, ergonomic and heat resistant.
‘Smart Heat’ aims to do just that. A family of utensils that innovates with an inbuilt colour changing liquid crystal thermometer provides visual feedback of whether food is in the temperature danger zone of 5 - 60°C. A curved arm elevates the head which comes into contact with food, preventing cross contamination. A heat resistant handle eliminates burns resultant from contact with skin. Now that’s a better user experience!
MOVIE PROP
A complex brief which required advanced problem solving skills, ideation and iteration. This solo project entitled ‘James Bond’ movie prop design was required to open a secure safe and retrieve a phial of sacred liquid.
The tool needed to be hidden within an everyday object, so that the female heroine could slip easily in and out of the lavish party unnoticed. A solution featured a turned acrylic perfume bottle, sprayed gold on the inside to elude liquid, within which telescopic sliding metal cylinders and other mechanical components were contained.
SMART GARDEN
This interdisciplinary team project targeted the growing number of city dwellers who increasingly face a lack of space or sense of community.
Proto-personas were created, each with defined lifestyles, demographics, day to day activities, environmental practices and living situations.
The solution featured the design of an urban apartment food garden system, including various products within it. The concept was an interactive garden which has automatic watering and temperature control, as well as sensor tags which send data to the ‘Garden Talk’ database. The database can be activated and controlled on the phone, computer or on the interface located at the garden and automatic messages go out when plants are ready for harvesting.