Category: Product Design

Basic Home Appliances Designed For Typical Household Purposes

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Life is made super easy with the help of home appliances. They have made you eligible to be able to take care of day-to-day tasks independently. In a hurried world of ours, the home appliances help us to run and win every race of our life. With the advancement of technology, the home appliances of modern time have evolved as high-tech machines which are user-friendly and works with just a few clicks. We cannot think of day surviving without them. With new inventions, there are uncountable appliances made available in the market. However, today we would jot down some of the essential ones which deserve a space in your house.

Requisite home appliances that should be available in your home

  • Refrigerator – The refrigerator tops the list and you should buy it as soon as you move into a new place. Most of the food items that we use in our life like milk, butter, curd, vegetables, raw fish, meat, etc. have to be stored in a refrigerator to prevent them from staling. The source of ice at home is a refrigerator and you also get to quench your thirst with cold water during the summers.
  • Water purifier – With the increasing rate of water pollution, it is not safe, especially for children to consume water without getting it purified. You cannot trust the source from where the water is coming and therefore you should trust good quality water purifier. They have advanced filters that strain out the germs and provides you with clean and healthy water good enough for drinking.
  • Microwave oven – Food is essential for living. Ordering food from restaurants every day is not only expensive, but also unhealthy. Consuming food made in restaurants can make you ill in no time. To enjoy home-cooked food, you have to set up the advanced quality microwave oven in your kitchen which will help you cook hygienic food at home. Your food gets ready without your supervision with just a few button presses.
  • Washing machine – Clothing is necessary and so is its cleaning. No matter whatever fabric you use,
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Establishing Design Defect in Product Liability Claim

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Sport utility vehicles are popular for its bigger size, spacious seats, and adventurous image. It is a favorite among field professionals and hobbyists. It has transformed conventional car driving into recreational activity for bigger families.

Its popularity goes along with the increase of fatalities on road accidents as reported by National Highway Traffic Safety. The annual rate for SUV roll over accident hints a pervasive danger of its design.

SUV has a taller structure and high center of gravity. Its design makes it susceptible to tripping when a driver exceeds speed limit and hit a road object. Slippery and curve roadway triggers a SUV to overturn.

Drivers of SUV have reported that it fails to stop upon approaching another vehicle or road obstruction.

If you encountered similar trouble with SUV and has suffered injuries because of its design defect, you may file a Product Liability claim.

Product liability allows you to litigate your complaints and recover damages for your losses.

You can establish the design defect by: 

  1. Show photos from the accident
  2. Present expert opinion of engineers and professionals on the hazard of the SUV.
  3. Prove that you have not violated traffic rules that may cause the accident
  4. Show evidence that the accident was caused by its inherent dangerous design and such resulted to your injuries.
  5. Present medical records
  6. Show purchase agreement, warranty, insurance policy, and pertinent vehicle documents.

You can also establish other theories of product liability such as manufacturing defect and marketing defect.

Manufacturing defect refers to the error during the production stage. The owner fails to

uphold quality and safety standards mandated by existing federal and state laws.

It is also the failure to produce effective parts that will stand extreme road condition.

For example: A manufacturer has the responsibility to ensure that its car roof can protect occupants during a roll over crash so as to prevent spinal cord injury.

Marketing defect- The manufacturer is mandated to publish information on the potential or known hazards of an SUV. Warning labels and User guide should be made available to inform the customer on the proper handling of …

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Tips when Using Designers on You Ads

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It is a good idea to know what to expect from a designer before approaching them. When working with a designer, it is best to start with a telephone call to see whether they are able to do the job, followed by a full brief in the form of a personal discussion.

The brief should be as full as possible, but don’t feel that you must know exactly what you want before you see them. A good designer should put forward his or her own ideas, and suggest ways of achieving what you want. The brief should therefore be a two-way process. On the other hand, don’t let the designer dominate the discussion and persuade you to accept a design which looks superb but doesn’t actually do anything to sell your product!

On the basis of your brief, the designer will be able to quote you a price for doing the layout – and the final artwork if the same person is doing both. You should get a written quote and/or confirm the agreed price yourself in your purchase order.

Having done the layout, the designer will present it to you for approval. You are under no obligation to accept the first version they come up with. If it genuinely doesn’t conform to your brief, then you can ask them to change it, and they should do so at no extra cost. You can even reject it completely and hire another designer, but if you took care in choosing your designer in the first place, that shouldn’t be necessary. If the layout conforms to your brief but doesn’t look right, then the designer will change it, but might charge you extra, although that is unlikely.

If the designer is also doing your artwork, it will be presented to you for checking, and for passing on to the printer or the publication in which you are advertising. Make the following checks:

1) Is everything there?

2) Has the designer followed the agreed layout?

3) Is the artwork clear, with no dirty marks?

4) Are the pictures and text correctly aligned?

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Product Review of the Original Designer Reusable Bag by Envirosax

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Envirosax® designer reusable bags are spreading the eco-friendly message with style! – a genuine claim made by Envirosax. I bought my first five Envirosax bags when I was on vacation in 2009. My soulmate and I were visiting Rhodes Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence. In the school store, we saw the eco-totes piled in a bin and went gaga over their soft feel and their glorious colors and patterns. And we liked how easily an Envirosax bag folds up and how its strap snaps together- just as an umbrella’s. It doesn’t need to be stuffed into a pouch, another plus. The pricing? Inexpensive!

Product Dimensions. The Envirosax bag weighs just 1.4oz. Unrolled, it measures 19.5″x16.5″. Rolled up and inside the optional pouch, it measures 4″x1.5″. Its weight capacity is 44lbs (equal to two plastic supermarket bags).

Product Material. Envirosax bags are made from ‘the all-new Envirosax Science Certification Systems (SCS) Certified Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (RPET) fabric’, which is simply recycled polyester (from bottles). The bags are waterproof.

While in the RISD school store, I first put just two Envirosax bags in a shopping basket and then as I thought about the family and friends we would soon be visiting, I added another and yet another to my basket. After leaving the store, I later returned for a few more. The Envirosax gifts were big hits with everyone, male and female.

By the time that my soulmate and I returned home from vacation, we had one Envirosax bag left. And I tucked that one into a safe deposit box with some special DVDs with the idea that I wouldn’t need to remember to take a bag with me upon returning to collect the DVDs.

So then I needed to buy another Envirosax bag. But I hadn’t noticed the brand. I went online to hunt. Even similar bags of different brands had some unlikable feature- cheap material; poor quality; ugly designs; not self-closing. And then, Eureka! I found an image of an Envirosax bag and then the Envirosax site.

I was surprised to see the large variety of design themes …

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Understanding Unplanned Software Design Behaviors

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In January 2004, the NASA Mars Rover froze when it had too many open files in its flash memory. This is an example of an Unplanned Design Behavior (UDB). UDBs are not intentional. I like the UDB term because it does not denote a deliberate error. Since mankind’s knowledge is imperfect there are bound to be UDBs.

Why do UDBs specifically happen? It usually happens when the mental design does not match the actual design of the designer. Call this Type 1 UDB. In software programming Type 1 UDB is called a bug. The more complex the program is the more bugs the program will have. Here I define complexity of a program as the number of conditional statements the program has. Conditional statements are If…Then…Else statements.

Type 2 UDB is where someone is following a plan and misses an instruction or misinterprets an instruction. For example, a cook following a recipe may leave out a step or by accident misread a cooking instruction. Or a killer puts on gloves so not to leave any fingerprints on a gun but does not have them on when loading bullets in the gun. In law enforcement leaving fingerprints behind is called evidence.

Type 3 UDB is where the design is either incomplete or inconsistent. According to Kurt Gödel’s “Incompleteness Theorem”, both completeness and consistency is not possible. So, what usually happens is the design is not complete or not as complete as it should be. Choosing incompleteness over inconsistency is not a bad choice. A designer has to choose one or the other, and I would rather settle with an incomplete design rather than an inconsistent (read: illogical) design. Since the design is incomplete the final product will not be able to deal with events outside its parameters.

How does a designer prevent UDBs? You cannot completely get rid of all UDBs. You can only minimize the number of them and try to make the system robust enough so it does not crash or go completely out-of-control. You cannot really prove the system won’t have UDBs. Try proving a cake will be …

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