EMBEDDED DEVICE DESIGN
Spring 2019, Academic Group Project
I worked in cross-disciplinary team of 10 students from Electrical Engineering, Marketing, and Design Engineering to design a smart embedded system device that enhances an outdoor activity. This model exhibits a flexible back brace whose sensors calibrate to your back and calculate the optimal position for whichever sport setting indicated by the user. It detects when the back is misaligned from the optimal position and provides haptic feedback to alert the user to correct their posture. Data on heart rate and GPS location are enabled if desired to provide backcountry skiers the safety they need for lone excursions.
• Created in Spring 2019 for a New Product Innovation and 3D Printing course
• Designed and visualized physical representation of product in Maya 3D Modeling software
• Designed with Brand compliance, aesthetics, and functionality in mind
• Designed enclosures and precision measurement interfaces
• Developed improvements to the designs from concept testing results and feedback
Although the team decided to go with a different idea that I also created designs for (pictured below), the back brace was my first experience with product design with direct user input.
Hover over the pictures below for more information. The products and designs below are not associated with Google. For the class, teams were required to chose a brand to work under. Our team chose to represent Google because of Google's tech-forward presence and sleek, simple design language.
