Final Major Project - Final Evaluation (500 words)

In these six weeks of final major project, I have been working by sections and following my action plans. Although I did not follow every single thing that I planned as seen on the action plan, I tried to follow it along my way to the end of the project

            In the first two weeks, I have been basing it on research. I started my research by designing a questionnaires to see if others have the same problem with laundry and I think this turns out quite well since I get to know if the future designed product will be useful to others. After that I start to research on contextual things. (e.g. how’s washing machine/tumble dryer works? What temperature is the water in the washing machine is?...etc)  I think this is quite important and it helps me a lot when I reach the design part. Then I turned to research on interesting shapes especially modular shapes, but I think I spent a bit too much time on it. I think I can concentrate more in experiment with materials and investigation of flat-packed models, because I think these two things helped me more when I am designing.

            In the next two weeks, I started my designing. Due to all the preparations I did on the first two weeks, the design part has been going fluently. I have spent around a week in designing rough sketches on my design book, but I think I have spent too much time on it since in the last week of designing, I have been rushing to finalize the best six designs and developed them into one design outcome. I have also used the last weekend of the design part to make the sketched models of my best 6 designs. I think I need to improve my time management later in the summer.

            The last two weeks have been the most intensive two weeks, since I cannot find the original materials that I wanted to make my final product. I have used around a week to search online and visiting materials shops. After this I learned that I needed to make sure that I could find materials before I decide to use it. At last, I have a talk with some of the tutors and we agreed that I make a full-scale prototype instead. After the prototype is made, I sent the photos of it to 10 of my classmates for feedbacks and I think this is important because I get to know if my “target customers” of this project would be interested in buying the product and it let me noticed which areas of it can be improved.

            In conclusion, it is such a relief that the final major project is done. Although it is an intensive six weeks project, I learned a lot through out the project. Since this is the final project that I got to decide every single thing of it, I feel that as if I have become a BA student that can handle everything independently. To be honest I am actually proud of myself. I am impressed that I can design a product that solves a problem that has annoyed me through out the first year of college.