Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Sarah Eddy
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: Sarah Eddy
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.
History of the Puzzle Cube
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Brainstorm 3, 4, 5, and 6 Puzzle Cube Combinations
Puzzle Cube Solutions (Easy and Hard)
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.
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.
Isometric Sketches for Puzzle Cube Solutions
IPT For Each Puzzle Piece
Puzzle Cube Parts IDW
Puzzle Cube Assembly IAM & IDW
Puzzle Cube Assembly
Puzzle Cube & Package
Puzzle Cube Data
Reflection
I now have a better understanding of what the "design process" is. It does not have to do with the level of mastery for the topic of the project, it is the system followed to get to the output. I used the design process with the 60 different three, four, five, and six cube combinations as well as when I collected data from all the different wooden cubes I was using.
Yes, my puzzle cube "The Challenge" provides ample frustration. This will not be easy for a 3 year old to put together and will require much time and concentration.
A couple things I would change to better my puzzle cube, would be the accuracy of all my cube lengths and I would make harder part combinations.
Yes, my puzzle cube "The Challenge" provides ample frustration. This will not be easy for a 3 year old to put together and will require much time and concentration.
A couple things I would change to better my puzzle cube, would be the accuracy of all my cube lengths and I would make harder part combinations.