Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine
Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Siebes
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 use the left over raw material for desktop novelty items. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system. 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: Siebes
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 use the left over raw material for desktop novelty items. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system. 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.
When someone says "I used the design process" they mean that they went through the steps of making an observation, creating a design, making a prototype and testing. For example, in the puzzle cube project we started by creating possible cube combinations or brainstorming and then we created a prototype in order to test our cube designs.
My puzzle cube design meet the criteria stated and is challenging enough.
On way to improve my design would be to include more interlocking pieces or more elaborate pieces that reach opposite ends of the cube
My puzzle cube design meet the criteria stated and is challenging enough.
On way to improve my design would be to include more interlocking pieces or more elaborate pieces that reach opposite ends of the cube