Project 2- REFLECTION

When I design the pure product, I only focus on the designing the product and how it is going to benefits the user. But in this project, we need to offers a combination of products and services to address sustainability in production and consumption. Therefore, the designers’ not only designing the product, but we also design on how the service system going to function in the PSS and how it going to work well with the product.  It lot harder than the pure product and many different things to consider. From this project, I realise in order to design a good PSS many considerations need to be involved, the design product is not only the link between the designer and manufacture company anymore, but also involve the whole communities and organisations.

Industrial designers should consider PSS among their solution finding strategies, because the job of the industrial designer is to design to make the world become better. So as a designer, instead of designing the product, we also need to consider the sustainability and consumption. And the best solution now is the PSS, because we all need things, but in many cases what we really want is the service those things provide, not the things themselves.

From the project, I like the idea of the PSS, because it is very sustainable. This is a new area of design that we never involve in before, we design the service system first, and then from the service, we design the products. I feel this project is interesting, a new challenge and it is very different from the project that we did in the past 2 years.

I also like it is a group project, because we get a chance to learn about the team work. How we cooperate with other and share the works with each other.  Also in a group, we get many different ideas from each other.

This project is very hard, because we need many different considerations at same time. It is really confused sometimes about the project and do not understand the project direction, therefore, make me feel disappointed sometimes. And that is the part that I like least about the project.

The advantages of design PSS are it replaces a product with a service. Instead of paying for the product itself, you pay for use the product for a bit, and then give it back. This is a good way to facilitate access to everyday conveniences through organized sharing, while maintaining our quality of life.

The other advantage of PSS is sharing systems encourage people to get acquainted with their neighbours and larger community, which increases safety and liveability.

The disadvantages of design PSS are the user will be less careful when using the product, because the products are not theirs. Also the profits of the company will be decrease since there are not many people purchase the products individually anymore.

From the project, I have learnt the important link between the service and the product, and also the important of sustainability and consumption. Therefore, in my future designing, I will pay more considerations on sustainability in production and consumption, instead of just designing the product.