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Students will design cool wearable gadgets that track health habits and turn learning about nutrition, body systems, and fitness into an exciting game. These wearables can light up when users hit their goals, making healthy habits fun to build every day!
SPRINT BRIEF
WHAT WE ARE MAKING
WHY WE ARE MAKING IT
We will create designs that will incentivize healthy snacking by making it fun and interesting in novel ways
To foster creativity and critical thinking while encouraging mindful engagement with food
Final Project Expectations
Your prototype should make eating the healthy snack more fun or interesting through gamification, whimsy, or interactivity.
Your design should relate to a specific healthy snack food
Materials: Limited to using cardboard, paper, tape, and other low-fidelity materials specified in the studio prompt.
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Studio Skills
Collaboration
Concept Development
Lo-Fi Prototyping
Project Management
Empathy
Engagement & Persistance
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ACTIVITY MATERIALS
THE PROCESS
Form groups of 2
Pair up
Research aspirational projects
Researching
Create visuals that represent how you intend to create your project
Brainstorming +Sketching
Create your first prototype
Prototyping
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5
5 min
15 min
30 min
180 min
Documentation
Take photos of your first prototype
Week 1
Week 2-5
6
Testing/ Iteration
Documentation Part 2
Share out
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Focus on making tangible and impactful improvements to your prototype.
Take photos of your second prototype
Week 2-4
Week 5
Week 6
Present your work!
10 min
10 min
40 min
40 min
Pair up with a classmate to embark on this snacking adventure together.
Pair up
1st
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Precedents
2nd
We're going to look at some projects that are aspirational and working in the same conceptual framework as our design sprint.
- Go to the Precedents Library in the Toolbox of the sprint. Look through the precedent projects, and choose one to focus on. For the precedent you choose, answer the following questions:
- What is the food this gadget or object is designed for?
- What problem/ pain-point does the precedent solve for, or what added positive experience does it add to the consumption of the food?
Brainstorming!
3rd
As a class, we're going to brainstorm ideas.
- To start, let's think of healthy snack foods (e.g. carrots, cucumbers, etc.). Make as comprehensive a list as you can.
- Once you have the list, consider the categories we saw in the Precedent Library: Gamified Snacking, Wearable Snacking Devices, and Presentation Devices/ Techniques. Spend 10 minutes individually brainstorming ideas that relate to specific foods and these categories. For example, what would a Wearable Snacking Device look like for granola bites? What would a Presentation Device look like for the same food?
- Think of what devices or gadgets you could design to make the experience of eating that specific food more interesting/ entertaining/ whimsical/ easy to enjoy. Sketch 3 new product ideas and the specific food they would help you enjoy eating.
Brainstorming!
3rd
Share out!
- Collect all of your new gadget ideas on the whiteboard. Look for overlaps in thinking (several groups thinking about airborne snacks, or a few ideas centered on baby carrots, for example)
Prototyping !
4th
Choose one or two of your most promising ideas and begin constructing prototypes using the available materials. Be creative and think outside the box!
You can add lights by connecting the LED to a coincell
Documentation
5th
Take photos of your prototypes. Capture both individual components and the assembled device from multiple angles.
Testing Phase 1
6th
Once your devices are ready, it's time to test them! Use the provided food items as your testing ground.
After testing, make any adjustments or upgrades that will make your Snack to the Future project as functional and amazing as possible. Also feel free to add visual elements including a color story or a logo.
Documentation Part 2
7th
Take final photos of your improved prototype. If it helps to show the device's functionality try to take a video or make a gif to show it in action.
Tip: Sites like ezgif.com allow you to make GIFs from still images.
Present your Work!
8th
Share out your work in a short presentation. Include any sketches you made, the documentation you took along the way of your prototypes, and a short statement explaining how your project works.
Healthy food you selected
Project Idea
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Final Prototype Images
What is the future of healthy snacking?
In this design sprint, we're going to incentivize healthy snacking by making it more fun. You will choose a specific healthy snack food and design a way to completely change the way it's consumed through rethinking the method and dynamic of eating it.
Imagine a grape catapult that launches fruit into your mouth from your desk, or a conveyor belt that dips a carrot into hummus on its way to your plate. Maybe there are different types of nuts organized into a memory game, or a version of a topsy-turvy game that balances berries on a multi-armed teeter-totter. Whatever your final vision, it's time to envision a snack to the future!