Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Teller
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.
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Teller
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
Created two different Puzzle Cube designs from possible
puzzle cube combinations. The design brief requires that each puzzle piece contain at least four and no more than six hardwood cubes. Each design will show how the five color parts fit together in a isometric view.
Iso sketches for each puzzle cube solution
IPT for each puzzle piece
Puzzle Cube Parts IDW
Puzzle Cube Assembly IAM IDW
Puzzle Cube Assembly
Puzzle Cube and Package
Puzzle Cube Data
I measured the cubes with a dial caliper to get exact measurements. Then I took out the cubes that were too big or small and replaced them with ones that fit inside the range. I then found the minimum and maximum sizes of the cubes and the standard deviations of the data.
Reflection
1. Based on your experiences during the completion of the Puzzle Design Challenge, what is meant when someone says, “I used a design process to solve the problem at hand”? Explain your answer using examples from the work that you completed and the design process.
This means that they went through every step of the design process to solve a problem. I went through every step along the way and used the model of this process to figure out how to solve each problem.
2. Does your design meet the design criteria? Does your design “provide an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older” (as stated in the design statement)?
I made the hardest cube that i could possibly make and i took many people (over the age of 3) a while to solve it.
3. A discussion of possible changes to your puzzle cube that would improve the design.
I don't think that I would change anything about my cube. It is a good degree of difficulty and it is also stylish.
This means that they went through every step of the design process to solve a problem. I went through every step along the way and used the model of this process to figure out how to solve each problem.
2. Does your design meet the design criteria? Does your design “provide an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older” (as stated in the design statement)?
I made the hardest cube that i could possibly make and i took many people (over the age of 3) a while to solve it.
3. A discussion of possible changes to your puzzle cube that would improve the design.
I don't think that I would change anything about my cube. It is a good degree of difficulty and it is also stylish.