Tuesday, March 2, 2010

bathroom -- how would you like your toilet paper stay?

Another busy but learning day, after a course of listening speaker sharing with us his experience to analyze Apollo 13, I tried to imagine to be born and lived around that area, people must all crazy about space and want to be astronauts.

My group project meeting is about product design and development. Due to limited information sharing, I am very thankful to all my friends who involved in the user group surveys to help my team to better understand the user needs, totally user-center driven instead of several of us, bunch of engineers holding pens and looking at the sky, wondering what we can come up with, maybe a unrealistic product not meet market needs. Gradually I see the point what designers and many prof.s tried to tell us, do many feedback, analysis loops to get conceptual done, do not jump into the solution too fast, which applied to so many fields study. Since we finalized the area is bathroom user group, from the survey of ranking the relative importance of these customer attributes we listed, we spent over 3 hours talking about toilet paper, operands,attributes, subsystem, functions(daaaa!)... when I left office, talking with my mother on the phone, the conversation was:
"did you eat something?" my mother asked
"not really, just finished group meeting, I am starving but what I just discussed has not helped my appetite."
"what did you do?"
"analyze bathroom toilet paper and its stand"
"really? didn't you work on the kitchen sponge last time?"
"ye"
"when you come home this summer, you will go shopping with me."



P.S. how would you like your toilet paper stay in your bathroom? and where do you put your rest toilet paper?

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