Smartphone Intervention

2021

SCHOOL

RISD

Course

Design Principles II

Sophomore industrial design students in Design Principles II are given three studio briefs, two introductory and one final project.  

For this first 2-week assignment I asked students to create a device that changed the function and their emotional relationship with an app on their phone. Students created a mechanism with at least one change of axis of motion and at least five different basic mechanisms. 
 

Smartphone Intervention

2021

SCHOOL

RISD

Course

Design Principles II

Sophomore industrial design students in Design Principles II are given three studio briefs, two introductory and one final project. 

For the first assignment I asked students to create a device that changed the function and their emotional relationship with an app on their phone.