Adam Vasilakis has created many product designs when he was a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. You can see more on his page: http//adamvasilakisdesign.com
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Product Design
1. A d a m V a s i l a k i s
Product Designer
Rhode Island School of Design
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Hasbro Toys Global HQ
2. Adam decided to design a garden trowel, specifically for
people with arthritis
His group began by taping their hands in positions common
for those with arthritic hands, also known as an empathy test
Inspiration for Adam was that his mother loves to garden,
but her current tools cause pain in her hands
3. After coming up with many
different designs, the design
on the bottom left was voted
his most successful by an
employee of the American
Arthritis Association
4. Adam and his team were able to create actual models,
made of insulation foam, spackle, and primer
5. For Adam’s next design, he chose to
address the lack of headphone usage
while sleeping. According to his
studies, 10% of people almost always
fall asleep to music, 52% occasionally,
and 13% would -- if headphones were
comfortable.
That is a possibly large market of
people that would use headphones for
sleep – if they were comfortable!
7. The thin, wide eared cup has a large diameter
but a thin width. The increase in diameter
allows the pressure from the user’s head on the
pillow to be distributed over a larger surface
area. The slight curvature accounts for head
rotation. The sound-proof padding will also
block out ambient noise as well as distribute
pressure.
The dual head strap are to
help keep the headphones in
place. The strap are thing
and flexible.
Z Wave Headphones by Adam Vasilakis,
Caroline Pitner, and Eric Maurer
Final Design
8. Adam will soon be graduating from Rensselaer
Polytechnic School of Design with a degree in
Product Design and minor in Marketing and
Electronic Arts and looks forward to creating
more designs to benefit people.