Blog Entry 1

Hey guys welcome to my first ever blog post entry!

I am really excited to share with you what I have done for the past 4 weeks during Introduction to Chemical Product Design as there were so many exciting things like forming a team, learning about the different types of chemical products

Week 1 

Going into week 1 of ICPD lesson, my friends and I were all unsure of what we were going to do for this module. Mr Chua came into the class with a bright smile and introduced himself and went through the module overview and that was when we all realised that this module is just the tip of the iceberg and it is related to our Year 3 Capstone project!!

Next, he asked us to form teams of 4 and we were given around 20 minutes to find 4 activities to do as a team. My team decided that we should head to foodcourt 1 to buy a waffle to share, wash our hands, drink Bandung (Rose syrup water), stand in the rain together and  Before I carry on let me show u a few pics of what we did :o.

^Us splitting a waffle into 4 parts and washing our hands afterwards^

^Drinking BanDung and standing in the rain together^

Week 2

This week Mr Chua taught us about the different categories of chemical products such as 

1. Commodities (Made in large quantities)
2. Molecular Products (Discovered through chemical research, e.g. Pharmaceuticals)
3. Micro-structured products (Extremely small chemical organisation in the product)
4. Chemical Devices (Have small chemical processes that bring convenience)

We learnt about the different stages in product design and the very first stage we need to know is identifying customers needs (NEEDS) before we can proceed to Establishing our idea (IDEAS) > Refine idea (SELECTION) > Develop and plan project (MANUFACTURE)

Next to "Pain point" which refers to problems that may arise when user is using your product or service which may result in them neglect or even abandon in severe cases. As we do not want that to happen we must quickly identify this problem in the development stages of our product and rectify it as quickly as possible to ensure that the final product is user friendly. For example, I once bought a laptop stand from Shopee as it was extremely cheap and the product also had good design. After the product was delivered to my house, I quickly realised that it was already broken, I tried to fix it however it was too fragile to handle the weight of my laptop. This is a good example of how the seller's product had broken functionality.

Finally, Mr Chua asked us to discuss with our group on what product we wanted to design. My group wanted to improve the environment and reduce pollution cause by raising livestocks like cows, chicken and pigs and we decided to design a "saivam meat converter" which was a device that produces "fake meat" from beans and other food additives.