Design a new solution for young and active ostomate — Ostomove
Content
Learned Skills
Design Process
Design Decision
Prototype Processes
The Final Prototype
Video Making
Self-reflection
Learned Skills
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Collaborative skills: ****
- Project administration
- Distribution files
- Time management
- Collecting data
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Application skills:
- Using sewing machine
- Define need statements
- Create prototype picture on computer
- Editing video
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Design Process
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Initially research
- Have an interview with ostomate.
- Analyze each part functions on ostomy bag.
- Identify Sun’s needs from profile.
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- Background and define need statements
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Figure 1. Verywell Health. “Ostomy bag”https://www.verywellhealth.com
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Design Decision
- Created an initial design and shared it with group members (Figure 2).
- Discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each member’s design.
- I proposed belt design inspired by one group member’s idea.
- Identified advantages of the belt-shaped skin barrier, such as leakage prevention using elastic bands.
- Additional design features were later added to belt.
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Figure 2. My initial design sketch.
After discussion, we create an initial draft design (Figure 3).
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We use button, elastic bands, and sponge as primarily materials and sewing them together orderly.
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Figure 3. Draft prototype
Prototype Processes
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At beginning, we tried to use sewing machine to sew all the parts together. However, the sewing machine was not working well. We tried to fix it, but it still did not working well (Figure 4). We wasted a lot of time trying to repair the machine.
As a result, we decided to sew the parts together by hand. We found hand sewing worked much better than using the machine (Figure 5).
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Figure 4. Using sewing machine and lines are messy
Figure 5. Hand sewing are better than sewing machine
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The Final Prototype
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