Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Rogovin
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 return value to its waste product by using it as
the raw material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom
floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle
system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. 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.
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Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Rogovin
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 return value to its waste product by using it as
the raw material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom
floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle
system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. 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.
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Puzzle Cube Research
Puzzle Cube research
Puzzle cube solutions
Created two different Puzzle Cube designs from possible puzzle cube combinations. The design brief requires that each
puzzle piece contain at least four and no more than six hardwood cubes. Each design will show how the five color parts fit together in a isometric view. Only one cube is mainly shown.
puzzle piece contain at least four and no more than six hardwood cubes. Each design will show how the five color parts fit together in a isometric view. Only one cube is mainly shown.
Iso sketches for each puzzle cube solution
ipt for each puzzle piece of final product
Puzzle cube assembly idw
puzzle cube assembly iam idw
puzzle cube assembly
puzzle cube and package
Puzzle cube data
Reflection
I used the design process in many ways. First, I defined the problem with the design brief. Next I brainstormed solutions with the piece examples and puzzle cube solutions. Finally I constructed a prototype and tested it. It took 1.25 minutes for the average person to solve the cube.
My design meets the design criteria. It provides and appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older. This was tested by having people of varying ages try to solve the puzzle.
Some possible changes to my cube to improve the design would be to design new pieces to use, of even more varying shape and number of cubes used, as well as to make all pieces a uniform color to confuse the user.