Fuse Food Assembler
Speculative Design for a post-pandemic hypochondriac world
Uni Project | Master Product Design, 2nd semester
Timeframe | 10 weeks, 2021
Project Scope | Conceptual Design, Visualisation
In a different world
Scenario
Covid-19 has passed but the fear of viruses remained. People have become hypochondriac and those who can afford it try to avoid bacteria and germs altogether. With produce and food posing one of the biggest dangers in everyday life, a solution for sterile meal prep is needed.
While this speculative product design is created in response to the covid-19 pandemic, it can also be understood as a critique of today’s consumer behaviour.
Influences
The product concept combines and evolves
3D printing technologies with ideas familiar from modern kitchen appliances.
smart
Kitchen Appliance
intuitive
UX
contactless and
hygienic
futuristic
aesthetic
Product Design
Inspired by 3D printing, the product design should enable the user to follow the process at a surface level, creating an easy-to-use appliance that still retains a space-age futuristic mystique.
Various structures and later specific layouts where tested in remote user testing using an interactive AR mockup.
Design Details
This product focusses on unifying the digital and physical experience, blending digital interfaces into the physical shape.
Colour and material contrasts are utilised to distinguish the steps in meal preparation.
Ideation. Envision.
Branding an digital UI
The branding on consumables and device, as well as its digital interface, manages to tie all parts together. The font choice of a customised SangBleu Empire and Univers accentuates the balancing act between futuristic product vision and traditional cooking.
UX Flow
The flowing shape guides the user through the experience, starting on the left leading all the way to the futuristically shaped printhead.