Existing products, mood board for form/color...
Incorporating lock mechanism...
Comparative analysis of existing products in 2x2 matrix exploring color/form/scale...
Existing products were opened, examined, and mapped out to figure out mechanics of pill dispenser.
Interview with pharmacist to determine usage/dosage and figure out pill size in order to proceed with study forms and scale of prototypes.
Mapping out product within scenerio
1 comment:
ga ram,
I have been thinking a lot about your project. Your pharmacist friend suggested that the big need is something that can dispense pills as needed, not only on a schedule. the kind of pills that get abused tend to be those that are used as needed, so the only market would be long term chronic pain sufferers. There are a lot of those people and there will be many more in coming years, due the aging population. These are the kind of people who are being perscribed dilaudid, morphine, fentynyl, and other powerful opiates that are the most appealing and most dangerous to abuse. In the movie Magnolia, the character played by Julianne Moore has an interesting scene where you are led to believe that she has OD'ed on her husband (Jason Robards') meds (He's dying of cancer). The point is, those pharmaceuticals are seriously strong, and a few drops of fentynyl too many will kill you. I am wondering if you should narrow your target audience to just those people on the really serious stuff. They don't trust their trailer trash daughter to go to the Rite Aid to pick up gramma's pain meds, so what is needed is some kind of container that can only be opened by a nurse on site or the patient herself if a trusted person can not be found to make deliveries of needed and very specialized and expensive pharmaceuticals.
I believe that the key to designing new products today is to target extremely finite and easily identified niche markets. If you set your sights too broadly, you will never be able to accommodate all of the permutations of function that inevitably develop in our very, very complex world of regulations and access to anything you want. I like your idea of making a pill vault with some kind of interactive mechanism to release the meds only after a numeric code was entered or a biometric password was successfully executed. This could also have significant applications in prisons, psychiatric hospitals and other secure environments. Let me know what you think. Once you have gone into greater detail about what you plan to produce for your thesis project, I will work with you to design an experiment that will allow you to capture data about how real users will interact with your product.
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