Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Okun
Problem Statement: A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap ¾” hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizeable loss of profit.
Design Statement: Fine Office Furniture, Inc. would like to return value to its waste product by using it as the raw material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle
system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. The puzzle system must provide an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older.
Criteria:
1. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 – ¾”hardwood cubes.
2. The
puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle pieces.
3. Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
4. No two puzzle pieces can be the same.
5. The five puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 ¼” cube.
6. Some puzzle parts should interlock.
Puzzle Cube Research
Brainstorm 3, 4, 5, & 6 Puzzle Cube Combinations
Puzzle Cube Solutions
Isometric Sketches for each Puzzle Cube Combination
ITP for each Puzzle Piece
Puzzle Cube Parts IDW
Puzzle Cube Assembly IAM IDW
Puzzle Cube Assembly
Puzzle Cube and Package
Puzzle Cube Data
Reflection
When someone says, “I used a design process to solve the problem at hand”? they mean that they carefully planned and recorded every step in creating and executing the solution used to solve the problem. They identified the problem, generated solutions, and so on. Everything was precise and tested multiple times to ensure that the solution was the best possible one they could come up with.
My design does meet the design criteria and “provides an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older” (as stated in the design statement).
Possible changes that could be made to my puzzle could that would improve the design are more exact wooden blocks that are glued together precisely, all the pieces come out instead of some staying two dimensional, and the parts could be sanded and painted in a way that satisfies the user's eyes more successfully.
My design does meet the design criteria and “provides an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older” (as stated in the design statement).
Possible changes that could be made to my puzzle could that would improve the design are more exact wooden blocks that are glued together precisely, all the pieces come out instead of some staying two dimensional, and the parts could be sanded and painted in a way that satisfies the user's eyes more successfully.