Friday, July 16, 2010

Self Service User Interface - Automated Bus Ticketing Machine

This project aimed to produce a concept for a self service system and the interface to go with it. My concept was an automated ticketing machine, which passengers would use to purchase their own tickets after boarding the bus rather than purchasing the ticket from the driver. The touch screen interface was designed to be as simple and intuitive as possible as it could have potentially been used whilst a bus was moving. 
The final submission required for this project included a report along with two posters, both of which are shown below.




Southern Cross Package Design Awards - BRAUN Series 3 Shaver

The 2010 Southern Cross Package Design Awards were a fresh change from the briefs I'd become used to, as we were presented with a variety of real world industry set briefs. Each of which had its own set of requirements for submission.

My selected brief was one for Procter & Gamble and was one which required the redesign of an existing products packaging from P&G's wide range of existing brands. Having recently purchased a BRAUN Series 3 Electric Shaver and at the time noting the excessive use of material, it was my decision to redesign the package for the said product in order to give each piece of the packaging more meaning and a longer lifecycle.

The response to the set brief resulted in half of the packaging having an extended use as a wall mountable docking station which also organises all the other pieces within the products packaging while the other half of the packaging transformed into a sturdy, foldable instruction manual. The below images show the final renderings of the proposed packaging concept.