spinlyy.
spinlyy.
Illustration by Elena Lacey/The Washington Post)
design goals.
initial concept sketches.
Skills:
Rhinoceros 3D, Rapid Prototyping
3D Printing, Iterative Design, User Research
overview.
Spinlyy is a simple and modular wire organizer that prevents loose slack and keeps your cables undamaged, secure, and compact.
Team:
Terence Lin, Joy Chen,
Isaac Blue, Max Morganroth
By observing people directly interact with their chargers and creating storyboards, I was able to identify pain points. From these pain points, I determined three main design objectives.
Preventing wires from tangling
Saving space when transporting
Intuitive, quick, and easy to use
Info:
IPD 515: Product Design
Final Project, Spring 2022
Below are various sketches that display the team’s initial thoughts when ideating on the design of Spinlyy.
People struggle with keeping their chargers organized in their backpack, which can cause wires to become tangled or damaged.
How might we create a useful tool for transporting wires/chargers without damaging or tangling them?
for who.
College students
Daily electronics users (laptops, tablets, etc.)
problem statement.
initial prototype.
We first created a rough prototype using cardboard and tape to gain a feel for what the product could feel like and determine if there were any basic improvements we could make.
From here, we created a more durable prototype for user testing. This was done by modeling in Rhino 3D and 3D printing.
user testing.
Testing with the initial design led the team to find key user issues and gain valuable feedback towards redesign. We asked users to test the prototype using mainly phone chargers and laptop chargers.
This uncovered key issues in the ability of our product to accommodate different sized wires and being easy to use. Thus, we pivoted towards a new design emphasizing ease of use and accessibility.
user feedback.
User testing led to important feedback that guided the team to uncover major insights and make final design changes.
the main body.
The main body features a top and bottom half that opens to allow the user to set up the Spinlyy. To close it, the halves have notches that like up and close via snap-fit.
The bottom half serves as a cap to the Spinlyy and to keep the coil enclosed.
The top half houses the spinner and is what enables the wire to be coiled nicely.
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I appreciate the design pivot to a more slim design.
-professor
user’ thoughts.
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Insights
Spool feature is narrow, wire has no more space to coil
Not very intuitive to use
Feels too “clunky”
Design Change
Expand gap width to allow wire will be wrapped around
Redesign form to be more slim than cube-like (disc), more handy
Simplify design to prevent confusion
final design.
The final design of Spinlyy involves two main components:
Main body (top and bottom halves)
Spinner
the spinner.
The user first places the center of a wire into the gap. This keeps the wire secure, so the user can close it and spin the spinner. This coils the wire nicely around the center within the Spinlyy.
If the user wants to use the wire, both ends of the wire can be pulled at the same time to unwrap the coil.
I appreciate the color differences so I can distinguish when to use each part.
-student
I wish there were a starter kit of different sized Spinlyys for different sized wires.
-professor
full scale prototype.
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This doesn’t look made for longer or thicker chargers.
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The magnet doesn't look strong right now to hold the pieces together.
