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This product is designed for a household with children it include couple with children and single parent with children. there are 8.5 million family with a resident child in Australia in 2009, and the number climb every year. So there is a large demand for toys, according to a recent research conduct by Kmart, Aussie mum on average buy 42 toys per year, with a average spending of $1100, however those toy are mostly disposal, there are 40 million toy disposal last year and from which 13 million end up in landfill.so that has a great negative impact on the environment.
currently toy library have some limitations:
•Insufficient
money for running
Community based without government funding
•Limit
Trading hour
•Inconvenience
location and hard to be noticed
•Some
of them members have to be volunteer.
•Require
at least two stuff one day.
although it have some benefits such as socialization and cheap, majority of people are not willing to come often because the short comes.
The new system have the following feature:
•Inside shopping centre, easy to find, enough
parking, parent can borrow toy when going shopping
•Self-service, parents borrow and return
toy not limited by trading hour.
•Parents can trade in toy and get credit
which can reduce the amount of disposal toy.
•Parents do not have to sign up roster.
•Parents pay money depend on how may toy
they borrowed, more flexible.
This system act as a chain business people can borrow one toy from the locker and return it to another locker in another shopping center.
The process of borrowing is that customer can borrow toy using membership card. Choose
toy, and enter the locker number, the description of toy will appear.
the process of borrowing large toy is that customer choose toy over the control panel and order, the machine will print out a reciept , customer take the reciept, go to underground storage to pick up the toy.
. The new system is designed for toy semi self-service
toy sharing itprovide box package toy as well as large toy. it contribute to
people’s daily life as well as the environment.
It is nice to have this system work however there are quite a few things you need to consider:
ReplyDelete1. The presentation and lay out of the page, using purple , is there any connection to the current design?
2. If it is target to household with children , you should but more design in with attract the children eg colours , shapes
3. I think the poster is better if it can clear show the user interaction, research problem wit stat and incentive.
Overall this is a cool idea, I wish we have this in the near future..
Interesting idea, but need more improvement. especially for the shape, it will be great if you can add more fun shape to it especially when it is about toys, it does look like a normal bookshelves to me now. As well as make the posters to be more informative and visually strong.
ReplyDeleteIt is very good idea, especially when we are consider that the average Australian family is spending $1100 per year on toy purchase. Therefore, in the future, family with children can save substantial money on toy purchase. It looks as a luggage’s looks on station with one exemption; it has transparent doors. Maybe different shape would be appropriate, for example round one so it fit in any place. Second, I think, it could be good idea if this design accommodates automatic washing machine with disinfection function, so used toys are washed and disinfected before they are passed to another user (child). Third, the colours of it should be brighter, as they attract children. On whole, it is great environmental and saving money idea, especially for those who have tough budged.
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